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Harland and Wolff placed in Administration
The famous Belfast shipbuilder Harland and Wolff has confirmed that the business is being placed into administration after declaring huge losses.
Looks like HMGs previous decision not to offer a financial deal has hurt the company somewhat, and has put the future of the FSS project at serious risk. BBC article here Potential buyers - Spanish builders Navantia and Babcock International. UK shipbuilding really is in a perilous state!
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Placing a quick repeat order for some badly needed Frigates and patrol craft might have helped. The plans must be on a shelf somewhere. We will need them one day, but where will we build them if the yards have been sold off or closed?
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And what will we build them out of, if all the steel yards have gone ?
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There are other yards in the UK capable of building warships, so why spend millions keeping this yard afloat?
H & W haven't built a ship in over 20 years, so the yard is now basically a repair facility and nothing more. |
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Its the facilities at H&W, rather than the capabilities I had in mind, they have a dock that will take the QEC, additionally - there are very few remaining yards that can build warships that don't belong to either BAE Systems or Babcock...I thought that competition was healthy for industry?
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Port Talbot won't be producing any more top quality steel now the blast furnace is being replaced by electric furnaces that can only recycle scrap.
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