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Bubble2021 In relation to your 08.50 post are you like me hoping that HMS Prince Philip is commissioned and that Appledore builds it. Well after all the warm words from the First Lord of the Treasury HMG certainly owes INFA at least one contract.

No it is the site that was not bought by INFA.

drango In relation to your 15.45 post a good example of why you do not put politicians in charge of shipyards. I note that despite a technical loss to be generous of £100m the boss of Ferguson Marine was paid £750,000. So in comparison JW's salary was not that bad.

dawski37 In relation to your 15.36 post what I find interesting about the Pugnax is that vesselfinder says it is due to arrive in Belfast 11am yesterday. That said I do not recall seeing it on the Belfast Harbour site in the previous seven days. I would have expected it to have shown up last week if it was coming in yesterday. It is also not showing as being expected in the next seven days. I am at a loss to work out where it is going.

Speedy_Gonzalez In relation to your 15.08 post this news is likely to put any decision off until around September. The reason for this is assuming that Mr Poots succeeds Arlene Foster that will not be before the end of June. Once in post there will have to be a reshuffle of posts. This might takes until the summer. The new Minister will need to be read into the issues that might takes us till end of September. We then have to hope that Mr Poots and the Deputy First Minister can get on.

The list of jobs being recruited by Faststream has been updated https://www.faststream.com/harland-wolff

Here is the report from Belfast Live https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/harland--wolff-launches-first-20489834
The report from The Courier which links the scheme to the Saipem contract win can be found here https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/business/business-news/2178442/apprentices-wind-farm/

TheEast In relation to your 08.29 post I remember when Appledore was bought there was some discussion about the 29 acres of freehold land that came with the purchase and what was going to be done with it. At the time there was I believe some discussion of the value of the freehold land. If INFA was to get permission to develop the freehold land then the cost of decontaminating the land may not be an issue as the sale price of housing would probably be high enough to make it worthwhile.

driftwood123 In relation to your 23.32 post of yesterday thanks for this I am not sure what the plan is for the freehold land that was part of the purchase. I have suggested using part of it for a onshore windfarm to power the shipyard and possibly the surrounding area. This ide would bring the operating costs of Appledore down.

Can I ask have you noticed much work going on at the docks ?

Chrisatrdg In relation to your 19.29 post the Seatruck Panorama is due into the SRQ at 13.30 tomorrow transferring from VT1. It is currently scheduled to stay until Tuesday when it will shift back to VT1 before departing. I do not see anything else coming in during the next seven days. All information taken from www.belfast-harbour.co.uk.

Chrisatrdg In relation to your 17.50 post. Thanks for the link interesting read it looks like H&W going forward will be looking for a blended workforce of full time workers and apprentices. If the apprentices stay/ are kept on it would be a good way to organically grow staff.

PS I was thinking earlier today that we had not heard from you recently. Hope you are well.

I have just seen this https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1209/the-navy-purpose-and-procurement/. I will be doing a written evidence submission to this Inquiry. If anybody else has the time or inclination I would recommend doing the same. My argument is that the MOD appears for political reasons to be giving all its shipbuilding contracts to BAB and not allowing other shipbuilders to have the opportunity to bid.

Just seen this https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6793445979178852352/. INFA appears to be doing its bit by providing Apprenticeships when is HMG going to do their bit and offer contracts?

On BBC Breakfast this morning Mr Poots was named as one of the leading candidates to take over from Arlene Foster. I am not sure how that would affect any decision on the ML.

Just seen this https://www.linkedin.com/posts/harlandwolff_harland-wolff-careers-activity-6792830610273644545-mwkA not sure if it is of much interest to anyone.

Just seen this thread on the UKDJ twitter feed. Assuming this is accurate the MOD will probably have to give other contracts to the other contractors who could have bid for the contract to avoid litigation.
https://twitter.com/UKDefJournal/status/1387349545441497089

Loosegoose In relation to your 17.05 all the press reports put the figure at 290 I think that includes sub contractors. If there are anymore large fabrication contracts then they may need some more perhaps at some of the other sites.

Just seen this on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6792821600623456256/ Advert for new HR Officer.

ThisTimeNextYeer In relation to your 13.07 post I found it a very illuminating and informative listen.

In relation to my 11.48 I have found the entry it will arrive in SRQ on Friday afternoon for the Bank Holiday Weekend.