Location of Vard Braila Shipyard in the eastern city of Braila in Romania. (Photo: Google Maps)Prague (VNA) – Vard Braila Shipyard, the company employingthe largest number of workers in the eastern city of Braila in Romania, hasemployed 70 Vietnamese workers and plans to bring another 60 to cover itsworkforce deficit, the Romania-insider.com reported.
The company hasn’t been able to find enough Romanian workers to meetits needs, the news website wrote.
“It’s very difficult to find workforce, although wehave been trying for over a year and we have ads everywhere,” said Alina Puia,the shipyard’s manager. “Work is hard here and now people are looking forbetter paid and easier jobs,” she added.
The Braila shipyard, which is part of Norwegianshipbuilder VARD, a subsidiary of Italian group Fincatieri, operates nineshipbuilding facilities, including five in Norway, two in Romania, one inBrazil and one in Vietnam.
The group has brought the workers from its shipyard inVietnam. Other shipyard in Romania, located in Tulcea, also recruited about 300Vietnamese workers last year.
The Vard shipyards in Braila and Tulcea can produce any type of vessel and have their capacities covered with orders until2025, according to Mauro Leboffe, the executive who coordinates the operationsof the two shipyards. The orders include cruise ships, electrical ferries,polar expedition ships, fishing vessels, offshore operations vessels and coastpatrol vessels.
Earlier, the newspaper reported that Romania couldstart to employ IT specialists from Asian countries on temporary contracts ofup to two years to make up the labour deficit in the local IT industry.
So far, Romanian employers have beenrecruiting workers from Vietnam, Nepal and the Philippines for positions in thehospitality, manufacturing and construction sectors.
“In the last few months, we havestarted evaluating more seriously the selection and recruiting of ITspecialists from Asia, like Vietnam, who would be posted in Romania for limitedperiods,” said Razvan Rada, the general manager of HR recruiting agency HeadHunting IT.
Some 178,700 employees currently workin the country’s ICT sector, 84,000 of whom work in the IT services area.
Local universities produce some6,000-7,000 IT graduates each year, but the demand from the local market isdouble. Thus, recruiting specialists from Asian countries like Vietnam hasbecome a necessity, as Romanian specialists who work abroad don’t want toreturn, despite the fact that the IT sector pays the highest average salariesin the local economy.–VNA
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