UK ship building.

[Huntsman]

I see in the news that the new Red Funnel for the Southampton to Cowes route is to be built in the UK.

Wight Shipyards built Red Jet 6, 7 is in plan, they built 2 Clipper boats on the Thames, plus they have a contract for a ferry in Germany, Rhine or Danube or somesuch.

Great to see ship building in the UK.

[grumpy52]

Hopefully they will do a better job with the new ones .
The last new one was not popular with the crew , they claimed it was very difficult to see forward and was very sensitive to load placement .

[andy97]

grumpy52 said:

Hopefully they will do a better job with the new ones .
The last new one was not popular with the crew , they claimed it was very difficult to see forward and was very sensitive to load placement .

Did Wight Shipyards design it as well, or just build to someone else's design?

The issues you mention are a design problem, not a build problem.

[CubanPete]

Great news for UK manufacturing.

[Huntsman]

CubanPete said:

Great news for UK manufacturing.

Yes, indeed.

I'm surprised not more interest in this subject.

[ATG]

Uh? Firm wins order to build some small ships and a couple of boats. How is this newsworthy?

[Neilstrom]

ATG said:

Uh? Firm wins order to build some small ships and a couple of boats. How is this newsworthy?

Because it's good to see some firms have confidence in UK shipbuilding with the associated jobs.

The new red funnel freight ferry being built at cammell laird where the Sir Dave Attenborough is in build is good news. Whereas the new wightlink ferry is being built in Turkey.

[swanny71]

ATG said:

Uh? Firm wins order to build some small ships and a couple of boats. How is this newsworthy?

I work closely with one of the above mentioned firms, its great news for me and dozens maybe hundreds of my colleagues.
So yeah, pretty newsworthy for plenty of us!

[ATG]

It's great for those directly involved and an achievement for the firms. But it represents a tiny, tiny part of global ship building and doesn't represent a vote of confidence in "UK ship building" generally.

[swanny71]

ATG said:

.....doesn't represent a vote of confidence in "UK ship building" generally.

Stay tuned!

[NickCQ]

swanny71 said:

ATG said:

.....doesn't represent a vote of confidence in "UK ship building" generally.

Stay tuned!

Is someone well-informed?

https://www.ft.com/content/b46b9dde-1d25-11e8-aaca...

Financial Times said:

Laird agrees to £1bn private equity takeover

[ATG]

NickCQ said:

swanny71 said:

ATG said:

.....doesn't represent a vote of confidence in "UK ship building" generally.

Stay tuned!

Is someone well-informed?

https://www.ft.com/content/b46b9dde-1d25-11e8-aaca...

Financial Times said:

Laird agrees to £1bn private equity takeover

Doubt that's it. Laird aren't a ship builder any more. They're an electronics firm.