'As someone with a long-standing interest in shipbuilding, I know how critical it is to have a stable and standardised design when building a ship' | PaulJSweeney ✍️
EARLIER this month I returned to my old work for the steel cutting ceremony of HMS Birmingham at BAE Systems in Govan.
That confidence comes from the long term, multi-ship contracts worth more than £4 billion that have been awarded to BAE by the Ministry of Defence ; an approach that stands in sharp contrast to the feast or famine attitude adopted by the Scottish Government, resulting in the seemingly never-ending fiasco that has embroiled Scotland’s domestic ferry network.
It is a self-sabotaging process that militates against economies of scale. The result is the contract for four new ferries worth more than £200 million being awarded to a Turkish shipbuilder while Ferguson Marine, the Scottish Government’s publicly owned shipyard, never even tendered for the contract.
To see it flounder in such a spectacular way is devastating, and the blame lies squarely at the doors of the Scottish Government and CMAL. They botched the procurement process and flogged the yard to the point of failure, all while failing to recognise their own undeniable shortcomings.
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