The Meyer Werft shipyard in north-western Germany has proposed plans to cut around 440 jobs, a spokesman for the company confirmed to dpa on Wednesday. The shipbuilder is facing financial difficulties. Negotiations with industrial trade union IG Metall and the company’s works council are set to begin in June. Meyer Werft is located in Papenburg on the river Ems, not far from the Dutch border and near the German North Sea coast. The spokesman said that it was not clear which areas of the company could be affected by possible redundancies. The company employs around 3,000 shipyard workers and se…