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Old 09-11-2013, 15:29   #11
Gordon Booth
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Re: shipbuilding in the uk

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Originally Posted by cmonstanley View Post
why o why are we making british workers redundant and then buy ships from korea you couldnt make it up.. Navy buys Korean to keep its ships fuelled: £452m contract for four tankers goes to the Far East | Mail Online
Cost.
Korean Daewoo- £452million.
Italian Fincantieri-£675 million.
UK shipyards- no final quotes, so no chance of a contract!
The Italians would have shared 35% of the building of just one of the ships with BAE. Being BAE even that would probably have had massive delays and cost over-runs.
Incidentally, we'll probably be buying at least 3 more ships off Daewoo.

Cost. The same reason we buy Chinese white goods, clothes and nearly everything else we need.
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