June 4 (SeeNews) - Serbian company Naval Box Cal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany's MK-Kliniken, plans to invest 70 million euro ($78 million) in the construction of a transport container manufacturing plant in Pancevo, the city mayor, Sasa Pavlov, has said.
"The 70 million euro investment will enable the opening of up to 1,000 jobs," Pavlov said in a video file published by Serbian public broadcaster RTS on Wednesday.
Naval Box Cal has acquired a land plot of 23 hectares in the northern industrial zone of Pancevo, northern Serbia, for 178,000 euro, RTS said.
Serbian media reported in May that Naval Box Cal intends to open a factory for finishing works on the installation of transport containers for medical purposes in Pancevo without receiving any incentives or grants in the first quarter of 2021.
MK-Kliniken, owned by German entrepreneur Ulrich Marseille, is currently switching its main activity from the operation of nursing homes to the shipping industry. In 2017, MK-Kliniken sold a portfolio of 46 nursing homes to France's Chequers Capital for about 300 million euro. According to German media reports, since then, the company has acquired five container ships, each with a capacity for 700 containers.
The company is also developing a programme for the design of specialised transport containers that can be reassembled into living and working space according to customer needs.
MK-Kliniken owns the entire capital of Naval Box Cal through its Swiss subsidiary Marseille-Kliniken Aktiengesellschaft, data from Serbia's business register showed.
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