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Https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-66540270

Always interesting to review posters previous posts.

Https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/naval-warfare/us-to-invest-nearly-35-billion-in-shipbuilding-in-fy-2024/

"Funds will be allocated to the acquisition and operation of new capabilities, upgrading of in-service systems, procurement of critical components and designs and expansion of public and private plants."

Https://www.irishnews.com/business/2023/08/22/news/judgment_in_islandmagee_gas_storage_judicial_review_is_due_on_august_31-3547168/

Https://twitter.com/HarlandWolffplc/status/1693648035299880965?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Agree Stokey 👍

Typo company perspective

Https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/first-minister-claims-independent-scotland-still-eligible-for-royal-navy-work/

Interesting article in that it seems to show the value of ITAR from a UK compactly perspective

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/08/21/bab****-polish-armaments-joint-venture/?expand_article=1

Good news, 👍

Thanks TDF

The recent Atlantic Declaration might be relevant

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-atlantic-declaration

• Continuing to optimise our longstanding defence cooperation. We continue to optimise our longstanding defence cooperation and ensure that defence and technology trade and exports between our countries are as frictionless as possible, particularly as part of our efforts to enable collaboration in and between AUKUS nations. To this end, the President plans to ask the United States Congress to add the United Kingdom as a “domestic source” within the meaning of Title III of the Defense Production Act. Doing so would deepen industrial base collaboration, accelerate, and strengthen AUKUS

implementation, build new opportunities for United States investment in multiple strategic sectors, and support our efforts to increase our respective and collective

industrial capacity across both clean energy and key technology sectors. Together the U.S. and the UK are taking steps to streamline defence trade between our nations, including the U.S. proposal to Congress to modernise export control laws to enhance collaboration between and among AUKUS nations. The UK is also examining its export control regime to streamline the flow of defence trade among the AUKUS partners.

Good to see 👍

Extracts

Plans to replace Border Force cutters and patrol vessels used to pick up migrants in the Channel has been delayed again, costing an extra £9 million.

Work to replace the five cutters and six coastal patrol vessels will not start until April, two years later than planned and three years after Rishi Sunak promised the vessels in the 2021 spending review. As a result of the delays, the Home Office will have to spend £9 million to extend the life of the existing fleet by a further five years.

That work is not expected to be completed until June 2025, reducing monitoring of the Channel for more than a year. The estimated cost of replacing the fleet has risen to £224 million, more than four times the original 2020 estimate of £50 million.

A Home Office official said: “We are committed to procuring a new fleet of Border Force coastal patrol vessels and cutters to secure and protect our border. The ship life extension programme will, in the meantime, ensure that the current Border Force fleet remain operationally effective and safe, help control maintenance costs and increase operational availability.”

Maybe H&W can help with this?

Https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23720067.let-someone-knows-ships-design-scotlands-new-ferries/

Https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-than-100-investors-confirmed-for-summit-in-northern-ireland

Over 100 global investors confirmed to attend the Northern Ireland Investment Summit with just four weeks to go.

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The Maritime Capability Campaign Office (MCCO)

🖋 A key tenet of the Refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy is to champion exports from the UK shipbuilding sector as well as promote direct foreign investments into the industry.

🌍 As part of the Department for Business and Trade, the MCCO was set up to work alongside the National Shipbuilding Office to unlock opportunities for our maritime industries to export their innovative technologies, services, and designs around the world. Working with industry to build on our world-leading maritime capabilities, strengthening our global reputation as a thriving maritime industrial base and leveraging our strengths in areas like #decarbonisation, #automation, #defence, design and manufacturing and professional services.

✅ The MCCO is targeting export opportunities estimated to be worth up to £600 million, from vessels to services and from sub-systems to supply chains. Additionally, the MCCO supports foreign direct investment into the maritime sector to accelerate opportunities, foster innovation and strengthen the capabilities of the UK's supply chain.

📢 Are you a UK shipbuilding or supply chain company looking to export or for foreign direct investment? Get in contact with us and we will put you in touch with our MCCO colleagues or find them at the Global Maritime Hub at London International Shipping Week. #LISW23

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Interesting a very modest £600m target, it won’t take long to smash that one then!

Https://afloat.ie/resources/irish-ports/shipyards/item/60048-heavy-lift-ship-contract-awarded-to-harland-wolff-s-belfast-shipyard

Interesting that MV Sun Shine can carry barges.

Good to see 👍

Https://planningregister.planningsystemni.gov.uk/application/668089

"The company expressed particular excitement about the potential for offshore wind energy projects in Ireland, noting their transformative effects on the Irish electricity system and the opportunities they create for employment and supply chains."