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About 6- 8 months ago EDF announced that between now and the completion of the Hinckley Point completion (no set date on that) they would be offering 30,000 (yes thirty thousand ) apprenticeships at their expense, much to Grant Shapps delight he was energy minister at the time. About two months later EDF announced the project was behind schedule and more funding would be required

I think Aker Solutions may have a part to play in those contracts.

666 the shooters call

For those concerned about share list etc, I was a holder of WRES shares for a short time. The complete list of shareholders names /address amount of shares held was listed by the administrators in their updates through Companies House UK not sure if companies linked with Caymans do the same. One of the slueths on the wres bb came up with the list when the same sort of questions were being asked.

Cottill , I don’t think Mr Derman is referring to the gentleman in question, but just life in general.

Stokey re 12.38 post .

Commercial / Military builds take a look at royalbodwes.com website. You will notice that they are able to produce a fair number of ships over the course of the year, eight or nine last year. No complex weapon systems sonar etc and no mod constraints which push the completion dates way over.

That’s why contracts like Sea Rose are so good for HW , even over 100 crew members to assist with the refit...more of these please

Si Derman ,the Maersk Cutter can accommodate 44 so would think crew members would have travelled over on Sea Rose , and probably crew changing via flights due to the length of stay for refit. A lucrative contract, more of this type would be good

Lottie, re your post 9.25 think you’ll find that that no uk yard can at present produce that size of monopole that is mentioned in your link. GE at Nigg are building a facility to produce this size.

Kaeren, look up the meaning of Tug Wilson

Tug Wilson was taken on earlier this year

Stokey re your 09.50 post in 1994 the American company Brown and Root held a 51 % stake in Devonport Dockyard you can read the complexities of it on Wiki under Devonport Management Limited.

It's the Cory tug fleet converting to bio fuel

To many cooks spoil the broth

Dawski, unfortunately some on here jump the gun with statements. For one the Bibby accommodation barge was in A&P Falmouth for work at the same time that the Argus was mentioned. So I guess the Bibby barge got priority, for the work schedule. The RFA's have many reasons for going into ports

I wasn't talking about HW, just the industry in general, I also didn't know that they may have had a problem employing apprentices.

Kaeren, No trouble getting apprentices, but keeping them after training is. Many move on to other industries or simply drop out

The accommodation issue is always a problem, the purely Naval yards have for years offered apprenticeships to those outside the area with accommodation, but not in great numbers.

Bubble believe they bought the latest plate cutting cnc machinery for Belfast and cnc pipe cutting machinery for the Methill yard

And it certainly will, There's a huge skills shortage out there which needs to be corrected

Should be Tugdock.com

The competition for building the jackets for the turbines will be fierce. Have a look at what these guys are doing at Tugboat.com and plenty of backing from the likes of Sarens cranes, one to watch