Germany to offer Airbus guarantee for A350 -magazine

12 September 2009 @ 01:03 pm EDT

The German government plans to support the planned construction of the Airbus A350 wide body plane with a state guarantee worth 1.1 billion euros ($1.61 billion), a magazine reported on Saturday. Focus magazine said the government would secure a loan from state-owned bank KfW, citing a confidential memorandum from Germany's finance and economy ministries to the parliamentary budget committee.


Germany to offer Airbus guarantee for A350 -magazine
A worker stands beside a special transport ship at the Airbus facility in Finkenwerder near Hamburg January 28, 2009. The new Ro-Ro transport ship 'City of Hamburg' arrived for the first time at the Airbus plant in Finkenwerder on Wednesday to transport fuselage sections and wings of the A380 to the French Airbus plant in Bordeaux. The German government is talking with state lender KfW and domestic banks about new steps to help Airbus customers g...
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