Category Archives: New Contracts
Cammell Laird awarded ‘preferred bidder status’ on aircraft carrier contract
Resurgent Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird has today, Monday March 2, been named a preferred bidder for a huge multi million pound contract to build the flight decks on two new aircraft carriers f…
Italian shipbuilding giant forms alliance with Birkenhead shipyard
An Anglo-Italian alliance has been formed to pursue a major UK naval auxiliary shipbuilding contract. The alliance, between Italian shipbuilding giant Fincantieri, and Northwestern Shiprepairers…
First cluster contract ship arrives at Birkenhead shipyard
A Merseyside shipyard is welcoming the first ship to arrive for refit work under the new £180m ‘cluster’ contract deal it announced jointly with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) last month. Birkenh…
MoD places multi-million pound contracts in Birkenhead for support of Navy supply ships
The Ministry of Defence has today, June 30 2008, placed contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds with a shipyard in the north west of England for the long-term maintenance of several navy sup…
Mersey shipyard begins work on £18m contract
A Mersey based shipyard is beginning work on a massive £18m Ministry of Defence (MOD) contract to overhaul the largest ship in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the RFA Fort George. Northwestern …