Shipbuilding

Posted at 14:21 25 Feb
Nationalised shipyard to recruit 120 extra workers
The Ferguson yard is moving to seven day working as it tries to complete two overbudget CalMac ferries.
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Posted at 0:49 1 Jan
Shipyard's fate 'close to irreversible' in 2005
Newly-released papers show the government thought the yard's fortunes had declined almost irreparably.
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Posted at 6:41 22 Dec 2020
Harland and Wolff owner working on wind farm project
By Clodagh Rice
BBC News NI Business Correspondent
InfraStrata says it wants Belfast shipyard to be a leading shipbuilding and fabrication company in UK.
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Posted at 16:00 9 Dec 2020
Ferry fiasco: Holed and listing badly
By Douglas Fraser
Business and economy editor, Scotland
The MSPs' report into the "catastrophic" mismanagement of CalMac ferry building is not the end of the story.
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Posted at 22:56 8 Dec 2020
Why are we building gas-powered ships?
By Calum Watson
BBC Scotland News website
What do we know of the technology behind the ships at the centre of the Ferguson shipyard fiasco?
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Posted at 0:31 4 Dec 2020
Digging up a Viking longship fit for a king
By Laurence Peter
BBC News
A rare excavation south of Oslo will provide new details about Viking culture.
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Posted at 15:28 26 Nov 2020
Why are Scottish ministers selling a superyacht?
The 25m vintage yacht was found in storage at the nationalised Ferguson shipyard.
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Posted at 17:08 20 Oct 2020
The state of shipbuilding in South Africa
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Video caption: The state of shipbuilding in South Africa
The BBC takes a look at the current state of the shipbuilding market in South Africa.
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Posted at 10:50 26 Aug 2020
Appledore Shipyard to advertise for 350 jobs
BBC Radio Devon
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The new owners of Appledore shipyard say they will be advertising in the next week for people to start work at the site.
It was announced on Tuesday InfraStrata had bought the site for £7m, after it was forced to close in 2019.
The company said it hopes to employ up to 350 people at the North Devon yard.
Conservative MP for Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox said: "If we can get this moving and the Prime Minister is fully behind it as he told the company yesterday, I think we can really do something quite special there."
"This is a new era for Appledore", he added.
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Posted at 18:28 25 Aug 2020
Completion of CalMac ferries delayed six months
The coronavirus lockdown affected work on the vessels at the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow.
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Posted at 23:19 16 Aug 2020
The industrial giant that became the Covid capital
By Mary McCool
BBC Scotland news
Could it have been predicted that Inverclyde would be so severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic?
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Posted at 23:16 16 Aug 2020
'Working in the shipyards made my Covid worse'
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Video caption: 'Working in the shipyards of Inverclyde made my Covid worse'
Could it have been predicted that Inverclyde would be so severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic?
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Posted at 15:15 11 Aug 2020
Troubled Ferguson ferry enters dry dock
"Milestone" remedial work starts on MV Glen Sannox as part of a plan to complete two overdue and overbudget ships
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Posted at 10:16 3 Jun 2020
£800,000 grant will help tell Barrow's shipbuilding story
More than £800,000 is going to be invested in the Dock Museum in Barrow to tell the story of shipbuilding in the town.
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A special gallery will be created at the museum with the Heritage Lottery Fund grant, and two new walking trails will take people around the industry's important sites.
Quote Message: We're going to be thinking a lot about what the new gallery is going to look like, we've got an outline plan and there might be some really exciting technology that we use, too." from Sabine Skae Dock Museum curator
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Posted at 11:12 26 May 2020
Belfast shipyard and Spanish firm in naval bid
By John Campbell
BBC News NI Economics & Business Editor
Harland & Wolff is to team up with a Spanish firm to bid for a contract to build UK naval ships.
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Posted at 16:01 11 Mar 2020
Ferguson shipyard was 'master of its own demise'
An inquiry hears claims that a shipyard tasked with building two new ferries was "hopelessly inefficient".
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Posted at 18:50 5 Feb 2020
What's gone wrong with CalMac's new ferries?
By Calum Watson
BBC Scotland News website
Four years late and £100m over budget - but who is to blame for the problems at Ferguson shipyard?
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Posted at 17:48 5 Feb 2020
Tycoon 'surprised' at ferry contract announcement
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Former shipyard owner Jim McColl says he was surprised when First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that Ferguson of Port Glasgow had won a contract to build two new ferries.
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Posted at 17:16 5 Feb 2020
CalMac 'did not want troubled ferry design'
The ferry operator does not want the gas vessels being built in a project that is behind schedule and over budget, an inquiry hears.
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Posted at 14:23 5 Feb 2020
Ferry operator was offered ships it 'didn't want'
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Video caption: Ferry operator CalMac was offered ships it 'didn't want'
A committee of MSPs looking at problems associated with the building of new ferries hears that the service operator CalMac did not want the vessels that had been ordered.
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