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My absolute pleasure dear chap. :)

Https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-05-24/HLWS500

Okay pigeons (Eagle and Jones), let me introduce you to the cat (Sunak). ;)

"Can't really compare RR with Harl..."

Don't thnk anyone was, tbh. Reggie only used it as an example as to not listening to doom mongering and negative sentiment.

They were very close when the lalest newsletter came out early part of the month.

https://www.stornowayportauthority.com/latest/

Yes, Tony, easily. Current holdings average is running at 6.5p. :) Not finished adding just yet so that may creep up.

Don't have an opinion on what it might do on such and such, or where it might go if this or that happends. Have been sticking to a plan (mostly) since breaking even on the FSS spike and it's working out just fine, thanks.

Fail to see, on an initial read through, what, if any of that is actually new news? Same old answers to the same old questions as far as I can see.

Https://www.linkedin.com/posts/harlandwolffplc_cne2024-makingwaves-activity-7197194270536024064-T3QJ

Could it be "Tom"?

Didn't someone post that JW was speaking for about half an hour today?

" until we max it out", so about a week then? ;)

At the moment, the work on the new ferry is being done by someone else, in their yard. Any future work done that relates to the ferry business in an upgraded H&W yard by H&W employees, upskilled or not, would be billed to the ferry business just like any other customers. I would imagine.

Yes, Scaff, I understand that a company needs to adapt to changing circumstances and trends. And even though the reason for doing so might have changed I'm glad they made the original move on the Belfast Yard and subsequently, Appledore. A new direction into an area that i would have never have seen myself invested let alone be interested in, tbh. And also, because of that decision, in a company that now has a local connection that effects people related to people that I care about. That's not the issue I have with the pair. It's they way that they make it out that it was all part of some master plan that, firstly, we were all privy to and secondly, that we had much choice in any new direction they chose fit to take us in. JW sat there in front of that scrutiny comittee and stated that running a ferry service had always been the goal when taking over H&W. Or words to that effect. Was it?

Anyway, like it or not, we are where we are and if I don't like it I know what I can do.

(no response required on that last bit) ;)

Honestly, the two of them pitch it like they turned up out of the blue just to save H&W and Britsh shipbuilding in general. The truth, afaicr, was that they were both brought in by Adrian Pocoçk for consultancy work on the Islandmagee gas storge project. JW on the FEED and AW with his history in gas storgae. Read there bios from the time. After organising the coup that ousted the previous useless BoD I don't think AP and his mate Peter Wale actually knew what to with it so just kind of handed it off like a hot potato and moved on to their next project. JW and AR were obviously in the right place at the right time and thought, yeah, okay, we'll give it a go if you don't have anyone else. Don't recall there was any clear cut plan already in place other than to get IM up and running. It certainly didn't included shipyards at the time. Yes, I'm glad they struck out and away from just IM and started doing something else as we wouldn't be here right now, imo. But that divergence was promoted as being part of the IM plan and not the main goal. And there was absolutely no mention of opperating a bl**dy ferry service.

Wow, now that's some poetic license gone mad, that is. Not quite how I recall it all happening, tbh. lol

GL, whatever happends. ;)

LSE, I beleive you maybe looking at the Costa Atlantica RB1 which maybe one of it's launches. The ship has several and I spotted tehm before whilst it was in dock. They obviously haven't changed the AIS data for the launches to match the new name of the main vessel.

It's got a destination down as Gibraltar on the 23rd.

Well, you can have the appology for another time, just in case. :)

Stokey, it's the Islander that is down for departure this evening. And by the looks of things it's been brought forward to 7:00pm. Can only see the Odyssey down as it's former namw, the Braemar.

(28/04/24 09:43.....30/05/24 12:00... BRAEMAR... BDD)

Think I may have worked out their abbreviations at last. PLN=Planned, CNF= Confirmed, SCH=Scheduled. There's probably akey somewhere i've not noticed.

Sorry, K, I didn't mean to be dismissive of your concerns by changing the subject. At the time of posting I hadn't actually watched the video and as you can see I posted at he exact same time as Dawski, so didn't see his post until now, having just watched it. This one wasn't quite so bad compared to some I've watched and kind of felt sorry for the guy by the end. Seems him and his team have been up against it. Anyway, I wasn't aware of previous issues or Vila Vie's history, Dawski, but just seeing them through these latest videos I'm not surprised. As I said, amateurish, at best. For the life of me I'm not sure why they even put these things out as it doesn't show them in a very good light.

I beleive is the term much used in the business is, No cash, no splash. :)

PS. Good to see Hulk Hogan has found work after the wrestling. Not sure what official position he commands, but he does seem to be the head of the table in the libary meetings. ;)

Any of the videos from Vila Vie about the Odyssey take some sitting through,tbh. The inital webinar was just excruciating and some of the walkthrough videos out there are not much better. The whole opperation seems a tad amateurish, imo. In marked contrast to the MAS Islanders opperation. Excuse jumping ship, so to speak. :) But the Islander is still showing as due out this evening. Some pics posted by the flooring guys on LinkedIn who said all but done with their bit.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-richardson-84b07411b_drydock-harlandandwolff-belfast-activity-7197339428078374912-7wTR

There is a link from the head honcho Francisco Porras with a nice comment about the The Yard.

"From beginning to the end. Always a pleasure to learn from the best in the marine industry. Harland & Wolff + Terramare."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/francisco-porras-48bbab70_from-beginning-to-the-end-always-a-pleasure-activity-7197749495449759745-CY5a