Posted by Bill Walden on October 27, 2000 at 03:46:06:
In Reply to: Harland & Wolff new orders! posted by Malcolm Mitchell on October 26, 2000 at 08:37:25:
: All,
: Following on from messages further down the board regarding the future of Harland & Wolff, it has just been announced on our local BBC news that the yard has won a contract from the UK Ministry of defence. The order is for two roll-on roll-off ferries worth many millions of pounds, so at least the immediate future of yard and it's Belfast workers looks brighter. I, and I expect most of you, send them very best wishes and hope that this will be the turnround point in their recent flagging fortunes.
: Malc.
Hi Malcolm,
I also believe I read somewhere that the very excessive award made to an American(?) drilling company that claimed that H&W had not fulfilled a contract to specifications had been reversed. From what I understood even with the new contracts, this award would have bankrupted H&W and put them out of business. For H&W, their employees and the people of Belfast, I was very glad to see that decision changed.
Hey, Bob, sorry this post has nothing to do with modeling. 8-) I will try to do better in the future.