{"id":7326,"date":"2009-05-14T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2009\/05\/14\/hitt-takes-a-hit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:32:10","slug":"hitt-takes-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/hitt-takes-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"HITT takes a hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organisation said that &#8220;investment in product development has led to the increasingly efficient completion of projects&#8221; resulting in excess production capacity &#8211; this would have been taken up by new projects but the slowdown has meant these are not, at present, forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>A works council has been asked to advise on the proposed reorganisation and, together with the trade unions, is to develop a social plan for employees that will be laid off.<\/p>\n<p>Company turnover and profit in the first months of 2009 were &#8220;below expectations&#8221;, and the future remains bleak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The slow-down in new work and the one-off restructuring costs will put pressure on the annual results,&#8221; said the company.<\/p>\n<p>The half-year results will be published on September 1, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollands vessel tracking services specialist HITT has announced that it intends to axe 25 jobs in its Apeldoorn facility, made up of 15 workers leaving the organisation and the cessation of temporary employment contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7328,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326\/revisions\/7328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7326"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}