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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
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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.