Birkenhead based Maritime and Engineering College North West (MECNW) last night crowned the winners of its 2012 apprenticeship awards. The ceremony included special guests Mike Hill, Production Manager with Cammell Laird and a former apprentice of MECNW; Brad Crumbleholme, Senior Engineering Operations Manager with Peel Ports and Martin Eatough, Head of Apprenticeship Programmes at the … Continue reading →

A Merseyside apprentice has scooped the top prize in one of the UK’s toughest engineering competitions, The Apprentice Welders’ Competition 2012. Ben Birch aged 22 from Oxton works for Cammell Laird and is a student at Maritime and Engineering College North West (MECNW). Ben won the right to compete for the award at The Welding … Continue reading →

Birkenhead based shipyard and engineering firm Cammell Laird today (18 October 2012) formally began its work to build two new vessels for Scottish based ferry operator Western Ferries. In a ceremony at Cammell Laird, a party from Western Ferries led by Chairman Alistair Ross formally laid the Cammell Laird keel number 1387. Western Ferries announced … Continue reading →

A NEW offshore wind farm installation vessel, the first of its kind in the UK, arrived at Cammell Laird Shipyard in Birkenhead on Saturday (1 September) in preparation for its first operational activity at Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm. The new generation jack-up vessel, named Friedrich Ernestine, has been built and designed by RWE … Continue reading →

Merseyside shipyard and engineering business Cammell Laird restated its ‘driving ambition’ last night to grow across all its sectors of marine, renewables and civil nuclear in the second half of 2012, following a strong first six months of trading. The world famous Birkenhead based company said it had undertaken more than 180 marine contracts for … Continue reading →