Boost for shipbuilding
The government announced an increase in defence spending in the House of Commons on 19 November 2020
Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding
SNP ferries fiasco
Ageing ferry ships that have provided life-line services to dozens of islands around the coasts of Scotland should have been replaced in 2018...
Pledge to rebuild British shipbuilding
28 November 2020
The government is promising that increased defence spending will help revive British shipbuilding. People will be demanding that it does.
Royal Navy’s new warships to be built all around the UK
7 September 2017
New Royal Navy warships will be built around Britain, using a lower cost design us part of the national shipbuilding strategy announced by the Ministry of Defence.
Focus on training
With support from the government and the trade unions, the industry must create and sustain high-skilled jobs along with modern apprenticeships
At last - a strategy for shipbuilding
There was a time when the term “industrial strategy” would simply bring sneers from government. The vote to leave the EU has changed all that. The first clear product is a plan for Britain’s shipbuilding industry…
The fight to revive British shipbuilding
The defeat of separatism in the referendum has spurred some regeneration in Scottish shipyards. But the challenge remains: how to rebuild a vital industry laid waste by decades of contraction…
Shipbuilding: Disaster on the Clyde
Scotland’s last non-military shipbuilder, Ferguson’s on the Clyde, is heading for bankruptcy, with the loss of 70 jobs – despite a promise from SNP leader Alex Salmond to maintain it