I work for a foreign company which moved a factory here from another country fairly recently.
我为一家外国公司工作,公司最近将一家工厂从这里搬到了另一个国家。
The size of the available site was important, but it was the package of state aid which determined where the factory ended up.
可用地址的规模很重要,但是是一揽子国家补助最终决定工厂的地址。
There was a lot of competition to construct it, and in the end, the contract went to a consortium,
建造中有很多竞争,最终,把合同交给了一个商社型集团
but they had all sorts of problems, financial ones mostly, and there was a lot of bickering between the companies involved.
但是他们有各种问题,大部分是财务问题,参与公司之间存在很多争论。
The upshot of it all was that the move was terribly overdue. Luckily, there was a penalty clause in the contract,
争论的结果是搬迁严重超期了。幸运的是,合同中有一条违约罚金条款,
so we didn't lose as much money as we would have done otherwise, but a lot of the people we'd offered jobs to went elsewhere.
所以我们没有损失太过钱,但我们的很多雇员去了其他公司。