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Spud, do you mind them having access to your rear leg hole? ;)

I think this bit could have been written especially a certain Mr K Jones, " Those with genuine concern for UK shipbuilding would now do better to focus their efforts on doing everything possible to help support Harland & Wolff in delivering the contract on time." :)

Thanks LSE. Nice balanced article and some insight into the design process. Interesting to see the initial percentages per yard/company and that it may be shifted to a higher percentage for Belfast on subsequent vessels. Being able to visualise the section allocated for Belfast I can't see why they will not be able to a. work on more than one of the Belfast sections at a time, and b. not to be able to utillise the building dock in the short term for other work. Seeing as the bulk of the keel is being prepared by Navantia and the rest by Appledore, the building dock will not be required for laying out a keel structure and so tying it up for long periods way before it would be required for final assembly.

I will rescind my "daft idea", in as far as being a revenue generating exercise. Plenty of time to whip up a quick T2. :)

Thought they were talking about dock capacity, but okay, manpower. Nice save. ;)

The increase of manpower is okay when you have the time to increase it over time and as the workload increases to warrant it. As they seem to have been doing thus far. Training newbies up on barge construction and getting their workflow and processes in order beforehand. But issues can arise when time is a constraint as you may be forced to get in just good enough or even substandard staff just to make up the numbers. Not suggesting this was the case when they shipped in a load of Portugese welders to get the Saipem contract done as I think there were other issues there. But staffing levels are not an insurmountable problem. Helped by the fact that they have quite a wide catchment area with the four yards spread around the country. And also that staff, if willing and/or incentivised, can be moved between yards to take up the slack. Once they get into the swing of it I'm sure problems aplenty will appear and hopefully be dealt with.

11:56 should read "could NOT be worked on at the same time."

Thought the same, BT, as in similar to the barge construction. But whether that would be the case with just the three vessels as opposed to a couple of dozen in the case of the barges. IDK

Sorry, Xenor, but could you explain a little more by what you mean by, "We didn't have the capacity for FSS..." What do you think has changed since? Beside a bit of work on the fabrication halls in Belfast to fit in a new panel line, the docks are the same size and the yards haven't increased their acreage. afaia

If they have the capacity and once they have got so far into the first build then I couldn't see why mutliple "sections" for various ships could be worked on at the same time. And that is not just dry dock space, as a lot of the construction would be done in the fabrication halls before taking out to the dock for assembly. Similar to BAE's work on the order for muliple Type 26 Frigates. "Four of the Type 26 ships are now being constructed on the Clyde"

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/efforts-underway-to-accelerate-type-26-frigate-delivery/

On a similar topic I saw this regarding recent investment and remember some of these tenders being flagged up here as possible contracts H&W might have been chasing.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/recent-british-shipbuilding-contracts-a-summary/

Ooh, which one? The Terminator, R2D2, Marvin from HHGTTG?

Hmm...??? Lots of potential. But so far...

... no gas stored, no "ship" built and no ferry, run, walked or even in the starting gate.

Has the makings of a sequel to a Meatloaf song where, none out of three, is bad. :)

TBQH, most predictions on here have fallen well short of the mark over the 15 months or so.

Just sayin'.

Sorry, but I didn't do full and proper research I'm affraid, Scaffman. :)

So fwiw, no, i didn't well know. But every day's a school day, eh.

Lol. Thought that was a genuine question from Mr Jones.

Weren't they going to do some appointments in January. A lead arranger for the banks and some indy third party for the UkEF?

Arun. ;)

Maybe it could become a "center of excelence" for the remaking of famous old ships. Quite a potential pipeline to work from. The Lusitania and Mauretania for similar types, maybe a Santa Maria or a Mayflower. Probably stay away from famous war ships but you know what, the more I think about this the more i think it's still a daft idea. :)

Daft as it sounds it was always going to happen one day that someone with more money than they can find practicle use for was going to attempt this. But not the best use of the yard, imo. But ships are not constructed the same way as the original was and a lot of new vessels get built in blocks, same as the FFS will be, and may only require full dock space for final assembly. Once that's done it can be floated off elsewhere for commissioning.

Did have an inkling, FT. Same MO with the initial rookie question so was keeping an eye to see where it was going. Ddin't take long. Ah, well, there goes the neigbourhood.

Obviously Daniel didn't think it worth continuing that effort with a short drive to Newcastle for the Renewable UK's Conference, but happy to go on a jolly to Bilbao. lol

#niceonedan #goingtheextramile #companyexpenses

Psst, onlymee. X doesn't like charts or TA of any kind. Dark arts. IHO

I mentioned it once...... ;)

Could expect that kind of action following a bit of news, with the usual suspects boxed in green giving it large with long rampy thread titles and more importantly, with a bit of volume to sell into. On a no news, little volume kind of day.. not so much. Was almost tempted myself first thing when it was in the eleventy twenties. But, no, got to stick to the plan.

And anyway, there might be better opss as there's a gap that just might need filling. ;)

Had a look to see what roles the individuals that visited the yard held as they were not down as directors or on the "meet the team" page of their website. Thought it might narrow down the purpose of the visit.

Alistair Nangle is a Chief Engineer, Darran West is a QHSSE advisor and Diane Zammit is an Environmental Advisor.

Not sure what to gleen from that bit of info but saw this article posted on DZ's Linkedin page about the company ambitions.

https://www.insider.co.uk/news/24-2024-scottish-companies-keep-31656488?int_source=nba

"North Star's ambition to add 40 purpose-built hybrid SOVs to the fleet by 2040."

Just trying to join the dots. :)