The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode with London Stock Exchange Group's Chris Mayo has just been released. Listen here.
This isn't directly INFA related, but I've just found this website re H & W.
It's absolutely fascinating to read about the company history, look at all photos (inc the building of Samson & Goliath cranes) and to see the type of work H & W has done over the years, inc tanks, trains, bridges and even the construction of 2 churches.
You can also view a list of every single ship constructed in the yard, who owned it, type of vessel and it's fate. Some of these are still active, some scrapped, some sank, some scuttled and there's even a few that were torpedoed during the war.
Sorry posting this when it isn't share related but i thought it might be of interest to some folk interested in a bit more info about H & W and it's heritage. I've popped the link below.
http://www.theyard.info/
Cheers Dawski.
This is maybe a silly question but wouldn't they have the sluices open to have the dock filled for the ship's arrival, knowing it was coming. That way it could navigate straight into the dock rather than tying up and then moving into the dock then ?
I see the Stena Europe in Belfast now but it's not in the dry dock or building dock.
Looking at it's position on the www.vesselfinder.com site it appears to be on the outside leg of land from the dry dock.
Is this part of the H & W site and I wonder if it's only waiting there to eventually come in to the building dock ? If it's waiting to come into the building block could it be they're waiting for a 2nd boat to join it so the draining of the building dock only needs done once when both boats are in ?
Maybe I'm just being hopeful or maybe they're going to simply complete the work in the position its at. I wouldnt have thought this though as a 2 week docking i imagine would need dry docking for hull checks and cleaning / anti fouling, etc.
This is me thinking out loud again.
Ahhhh ! !
Sorry Si. How could I forget our Spreadsheet and numbers man in my list below.
Only being a fairly recent poster to the INFA page (although invested a while now), I want to say simply 'thanks' to all you folk here who regularly post helpful information here. This is greatly appreciated. A good example of informative and helpful posts is the one surrounding the 'Dock-Gate' drama (that never was, lol). Ban told us earlier it was simply 10 year maintenance and Dawski confirming this with his direct knowledge, and followed up with his detailed thoughts as to where we are as a company. Your knowledge and contribution here Dawski is invaluable.
Enough of my Daws worship, lol, and thanks to you all inc, Jab, Chris, Whata, Goup, Loose, Speedy, Pac, Spud, Lottie, Cookie, etc, your thoughts and knowledge are greatly appreciated. (Sorry if I've missed anyone, im just listing from names I remember in my head without trawling through pages). Hopefully I can contribute myself in future even if it is simply my positivity's or concerns.
You might ask what's the point of this post, but some of you take a lot of time to post back to us others, and I think it's important sometimes for us to step back and say a simple 'thanks'.
So. Thanks ! !
Having some time and reviewing my SIPP and IS A holdings this evening, I have to say of the 7 single company stocks I hold, INFA is the one I'm most excited and positive about.
Yes there are obviously risks with this stock however the potential returns here are potentially mind blowing.
My biggest single company holding is also INFA, and it's the biggest holding by a long way.
Coming out of this Covid situation and with the capital expected to be pumped into the economy for home grown UK companies by the government to kick start the economy again leaves us superbly placed to benefit from this.
I believe there will be no shortage of contracts and hopefully these contracts will be gained with sufficient margin to pop us back into profitability.
I'm honestly buzzing about what could come here.
Goodness me. Quite a bad typo there. I meant 'trainspotter' lol.
You're correct Si. It's never left dock. I'm on the vesselfinder site a few times each day (I'm a saddo transpotter type but with boats, lol) and it hasn't moved. I'm not sure why it only showed up when you searched the vessel name but assuming it might be the case that it was in dry dock and not actually afloat.
Whatamess, I would have agreed with you on that, as I love cruises and have done 8 or cruises to date and said to myself i wouldn't consider them again for quite some time.
However . . .
There's an 2021 Alaskan cruise im currently thinking of booking (and probably will). My reason is that it's 10 months away and it's now only £1,600 pp. The exact same cruise was £3,400 pp back in January when I looked at it. There's some great cruise offers going at the mo to encourage folk back on boats.
This cruise was out of my budget till now and I imagine there will be folk like myself who could be tempted to cruise again with some of the offers going.
Cheers goupplease for the explanation. It definitely is ridiculous.
Do you know of anywhere where the genuine figures are available for buys and sell trades made, or is this something we just have to accept re this data ?
I've just topped up with a 1,000,000 BUY this afternoon at 14.06.
This however is showing on the LSE page (in the trades tab) as a 1,000,000 SELL. How can this be ?
Now I'm not naïve enough that I don't understand how MM's can play with figures, spreads, etc, to influence buys / sells with a desired agenda, but how can totally incorrect data be published on LSE here re buy and sells made ?
I've seen quite a few posts like this where a buy and sell has been incorrectly published for it to be a simple typo. How in this heavily regulated world of all things money related can this incorrect data be allowed (especially when some people may monitor the buy and sell trades made before making a decision to buy or sell a share themselves ?
Anyway. Rant over, lol, (and maybe someone can explain how this happens)
Hi Si. That's me in for another 1 mill this afternoon. (12.5 in total now).
Ta for keeping the spreadsheet. It's an interesting record you're keeping, especially giving us an idea of where quite a few the Infa shares are held, and by whom (Infa staff, II's, Individuals, etc).
I believe the MV Arrow is a Seatruck owned vessel and leased by the IOM Steam Packet Company. It's been in H & W main dock since last Friday.
Does anyone have any info on what work's being done on it ? I'm not on Twitter, Linkedin, FB, etc, if there's any details on any of these sites or elsewhere.
Definitely, and alongside Edwin Poots , ( who I believe makes the ultimate decision on the marine license ).
Cheers Chris. Ta for posting the H & W map.
Soz for posting the same as yourself. I think you must have beat me by seconds with the new ship post as we're both posted at 15.13, lol.
Hopefully it's a bigger and longer job than EC last week.
Sorry. Here's the link :-
https://www.vesselfinder.com/
I'm not that familiar with the H & W site map but if I'm not mistaken this looks like its 'Arrow', a roll on roll off cargo ship is in H & W dock area.
It's not the same dry dock area that European Causeway was in last week but looks to be in H & W site area.
Can anyone confirm if it's in our dock or know anything about any work being done on it ?
Its been a brief visit. European Causeway has just left the dock about half hour ago.
https://www.vesselfinder.com/
Well spotted Chris. If H & W have P & O on board as a customer that's a big positive as those guys have quite a fleet, including a range of cruise ships with some of those being massive ships.
As for European Causeway being in dock, has anyone any knowledge of what's being done, maintenance, repairs, etc ?
This is boat that had the accident in December passed where there were 20 plus vehicles damaged and around half a dozen lorries toppled while crossing in rough seas.
Thanks for your thoughts folks. Fingers crossed it's onwards and upwards for Zam.