ASTANO or Astilleros y Talleres del Noroeste (English: Shipyards and Workshops of the Northwest) is a shipbuilding company based in Fene, Ferrolterra, Spain

Spain

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, which flourished during the 1960s and the early 1970s coinciding with the end of the Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...

 era and the arrival of democracy on the hands of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...

 (PSOE). From the late 1980s and early 1990s the possibility of joining the other shipyards of Ferrolterra and from the year 2000 forms an integral part of NAVANTIA

Navantia

Navantia, formerly Bazán or IZAR, is a Spanish shipbuilding firm, which offers its services to both military and civil sector. It is the fifth largest shipbuilder in Europe, and the ninth largest in the world with shipyards all over Spain....

 formerly IZAR

Izar

Izar may refer to:* Izār, a part of the Ihram clothing worn by male pilgrims during the Islamic Hajj* Izar, a star, also known as Pulcherrima, also known as Epsilon Boötis...

.

See also

• Ferrol City and Naval Station in North-western Spain.
• Fene
  FENE
  FENE stands for the finitely extensible nonlinear elastic model of a long-chained polymer. It simplifies the chain of monomers by connecting a sequence of beads with nonlinear springs...
  
   is one of the boroughs of Ferrolterra.
• NAVANTIA
  Navantia
  Navantia, formerly Bazán or IZAR, is a Spanish shipbuilding firm, which offers its services to both military and civil sector. It is the fifth largest shipbuilder in Europe, and the ninth largest in the world with shipyards all over Spain....
  
  Spanish Shipyards.

External links

• NAVANTIA, Leader in Military Shipbuilding
• http://astano-curso65.esp.st/