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Avyererdowt In relation to your 11.23 post I was only comparing him with Jake Berry who is one of the local MPs for the area covering Cammell Laird. As a novelty they could make the decision on a commercial basis.
Bubble2021 If INFA can get the contract it will be a feather in its cap. It does have experience in building yachts. Also in the battle of the MPs I think Sir Geoffrey Cox has more weight than Jake Berry. It does not help that Cammell Laird did not complete its last ship the Research Ship Sir David Attenborough on time.
Morning Stokey,yes I am hoping it's infra,a new era of shipbuilding
Bubble2021 In relation to your 08.50 post are you like me hoping that HMS Prince Philip is commissioned and that Appledore builds it. Well after all the warm words from the First Lord of the Treasury HMG certainly owes INFA at least one contract.
Massive news coming we hope for infra shipbuilding gla .
"...could be made in Italy.”
And the Kaiser Chiefts song, "I Predict a Riot" comes to mind.
Also the name of the album it came from seems apt aswell.
Employment.
Went past the seaward/harbour side of the yard today the place is pristine and gleaming, the refurbished dry dock gates look fantastic, looks like they are expecting something major.
Boris visited Appledore, or why H&W Belfast is hiring apprentices this September?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/01/exclusive-britannia-rule-waves-new-royal-yacht-named-prince/
The Telegraph
Exclusive: Britannia to rule the waves once more, with new royal yacht named after Prince Philip
Christopher Hope 5 hrs ago
"Boris Johnson will announce within weeks a new national flagship named after the Duke of Edinburgh that will be seen as a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia."
Plans to build yacht in Britain
"The hope is that as a MoD asset, ministers can direct that the vessel is built in UK shipyards in order to create jobs, reinvigorate the UK’s shipbuilding industry and showcase the best of British design, engineering and ingenuity around the world."
"One senior source said the plan was “ready to go”. Another said: “There was a bit of a fight between the MoD and the Cabinet Office about who pays for it."
“The lawyers are all over it because in order to stipulate that it is made in Britain it has to have a military use, otherwise it will go out to procurement and could be made in Italy.”
Well, he knows that Jehovah created oil and gas reserves out of the infinite vacuum of space sometime during the last 6000 years of the book.
Maybe those gas caverns have already been created? He's NOT Ted Haggard but similar in many ways...
Hopefully he's been diligently working his way through the comprehensive reports from Daera. Recommendation from Daera to Mr Poots effective since 1st April and we know he answered questions about the ML on 13th April and one thing he confirmed was this...
"We have the papers, and progress is being made on arriving at a decision."
So at this point he's had this with him for a month. My view is a decision is quite near. He'll want this done and dusted in time for the possibility of becoming the new leader of the DUP. Having already spent quite some time on the subject he'll likely consider it in the interest of all concerned and transparency of the process to be the one to make the decision regardless of his intention to become the new leader.
By Cate McCurry And David Young
Saturday, 1st May 2021, 6:46 pm
News
Politics
Edwin Poots has backing of majority of DUP politicians, claims campaign manager Paul Frew
The campaign manager for Stormont minister Edwin Poots has claimed he has received the endorsement of the majority of politicians who decide the next leader of the DUP.
On Saturday morning, MLA Paul Frew, who was announced as Mr Poots’s campaign manager on Friday, claimed the Agriculture Minister has received the majority backing of their MLAs and MPs.
No it is the site that was not bought by INFA.
is that relevant to infa?
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/2183875/deserted-fife-bifab-yard-welcomes-new-business/
Belfast Telegraph
April 30 2021 11:00 AM
The reintroduction of apprenticeships at Harland & Wolff rekindles memories of the years around the foundation of Northern Ireland when the province was known as the anvil of the Empire because of its pre-eminent shipbuilding, engineering, and ropeworks industries.
Securing an apprenticeship at The Yard, as the H&W shipyard was known, was akin to getting a job for life. It was an industry which employed thousands mostly from east Belfast and the Shankill areas of Belfast. Times and the fortunes of Harland and Wolff have changed dramatically since those days and it was only recently that the company synonymous with Belfast was saved from extinction.
The apprentices, who will be recruited from September this year, will need to have better educational qualifications than their predecessors and learn vastly different skills, but it is encouraging that a company with a 160-year history in Northern Ireland has diversified and is bringing on the next generation of workers who will ensure that it will prosper in future.
Agree politicians can't run shipyards. Tim Hair classed in some articles as the turn around director has been put in charge for a few months to oversee the completion of the ship. Not a bad earner.
drango In relation to your 15.45 post a good example of why you do not put politicians in charge of shipyards. I note that despite a technical loss to be generous of £100m the boss of Ferguson Marine was paid £750,000. So in comparison JW's salary was not that bad.
dawski37 In relation to your 15.36 post what I find interesting about the Pugnax is that vesselfinder says it is due to arrive in Belfast 11am yesterday. That said I do not recall seeing it on the Belfast Harbour site in the previous seven days. I would have expected it to have shown up last week if it was coming in yesterday. It is also not showing as being expected in the next seven days. I am at a loss to work out where it is going.
Dawski......I bet you're popular with the ladies......full of tantalizing surprises!
Good time indeed to show face and support infrastructures like ML and shipbuilding imho ,he would get my vote!!
Scottish Government and Ferguson Marine in the headlines today .... you just can't make these stories up
Stokey....................OR, it might be that NOW is the perfect time to show decisive and progressive leadership by announcing a key infrastructure project has permission to proceed. A boost for energy security for many years to come, the economy and employment. A golden egg is sitting on Mr. Poots desk ahead of the public campaign.........
He said: “Northern Ireland is a place that has had many great things over this last hundred years, I wish to see us rebuild, revitalise, reinvigorate and revive for the next hundred.”
He said he expected a public campaign, a novelty for a party that has not had a leadership contest since the Rev Ian Paisley founded it 50 years ago. Paisley passed the crown to Peter Robinson in 2008 who then passed it to Foster in 2015.
“I look forward to the engagement and the debate with colleagues and the wider public in this contest,” said Poots.
Well spotted ,Mr Major Ship Spotter and well done, I think ,Tango,Sir, for first seeing this one coming .
How's about having a peep at the Good Ship Pugnax which is shown to be coming to Belfast but it is and has been moored in Belfast Lough for a few days after a voyage from Port Arthur USA .it is a " Heavy Load Carrier " registered in Curacao which is a Caribbean Island. It is not shown on the Belfast Harbour Site at all ...Interesting ..Is it heading ........................!!!? We certainly need news now of something to cause the waters of the Lower Lagan to ripple a bit !!!
Speedy_Gonzalez In relation to your 15.08 post this news is likely to put any decision off until around September. The reason for this is assuming that Mr Poots succeeds Arlene Foster that will not be before the end of June. Once in post there will have to be a reshuffle of posts. This might takes until the summer. The new Minister will need to be read into the issues that might takes us till end of September. We then have to hope that Mr Poots and the Deputy First Minister can get on.
The list of jobs being recruited by Faststream has been updated https://www.faststream.com/harland-wolff