Saint-Nazaire

British

/ sɛ̃nazɛr /

noun

a port in NW France, at the mouth of the River Loire: German submarine base in World War II; shipbuilding. Pop: 65 874 (1999)

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Earlier Thursday, Royal Caribbean said it entered into agreements with a shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France, to construct its Discovery Class cruise ships.

From MarketWatch

The vessel was traveling south through the Bay of Biscay when it turned east and headed toward Saint-Nazaire, home to Europe’s largest shipyard, according to the ship-tracking service Kpler.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Boracay is now anchored near the port of Saint-Nazaire, down the coast from Brest.

From BBC

In addition to the Belfast A220 wing plant, those include a plant in Kinston, N.C., purpose-built to manufacture fuselage panels for the A350 and a plant in Saint-Nazaire, France, that assembles the fuselage sections from those panels.

From Seattle Times

For David Samzun, mayor of the city of Saint-Nazaire in western France and a Socialist Party member like Hidalgo, a boycott of the contest would have been “unsustainable.”

From Washington Post

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