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THE TELEGRAPH
Ministers attacked over failure to ensure British shipyards build Navy ships
The Government has rowed back pledges to support UK shipbuilding
By Alan Tovey,
INDUSTRY EDITOR
26 May 2021 • 1:13pm
"Ministers risk damaging Britain's shipbuilding industry after rowing back on a commitment to build the Navy’s new generation of support vessels in the UK, a senior MP has said."
"Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Defence Select Committee and a former Royal Green Jackets officer, demanded that the Government explains why it decided to change course on the £1.5bn contract by opening the door to foreign bidders."
"In a letter to the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, Mr Ellwood said he is disappointed that the contract does not require the ships to be entirely built in Britain, despite commitments to revitalise the UK’s shipbuilding sector in the defence review earlier this year."
"Last week the Ministry of Defence relaunched the tender for the three 40,000-tonne vessels but did not include a commitment for all building work to be carried out in Britain."
"Mr Wallace, who is also the UK’s “shipbuilding tsar”, has been tasked with bolstering the UK’s embattled ship construction industry in the recent defence review."
"There are understood to be two leading groups interested in the contract - an all-British consortium dubbed “Team UK”, made up BAE Systems, Bab****, Cammell Laird and Rolls-Royce; and “Team Resolute”, consisting of British maritime consultancy BMT, Harland & Wolff, which is owned by Infrastrata, and Spanish state-owned shipbuilding company Navantia."
Does that not mean Team Resolute have a better chance?
Well JW aligned the business to the government proposals so what can you expect!
If the very well paid board have anything about them they could manage without the defence contracts.According to the presentation the clean energy sector could keep the company at full capacity.The cruise sector and other shipbuilding and oil and gas contracts to add other avenues.Boris and co might be able to get by without keeping their promises on rebuilding shipbuilding but they cannot renege on energy security.
My view is that Team UK and its backers are trying to avoid any competition. If you look at who is in Team UK you have all the main shipbuilders. While Team Resolute includes Navantia who are promising to show INFA more modern and efficient ways to build ships. It is this knowledge transfer that is the main issue. If INFA applies more modern methods of shipbuilding learnt from Navantia then it could build ships at lower costs. So for Team UK it is essential that foreign companies are kept out as they cannot compete on costs.
https://www.navantia.es/en/navantia-4-0/shipyard-4-0/?cn-reloaded=1
This is what it’s all about going forward - Shipyard 4.0
We’ve got a long way to go to get there. Navantia could help but they are effectively competing with us in other sectors
The view from the Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/05/26/ministers-attacked-failure-ensure-british-shipyards-secure-navy/ I do not subscribe to the Telegraph so if anyone does can they please copy and paste the article if it says anything new.
Stokey - I posted that Telegraph article on here yesterday evening...
mcadder In realtion to your 13.52 post sorry I remember reading it now did not appreciate it was the same article.
Projected UK offshore energy workforce and offshore potential including offshore wind,
http://www.rgueti.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/workforce-transferability-report.pdf
I read it as a positive for Team Resolute and an attempt at lobbying by the incumbents
Fwiw