-- The shipbuilders are long dead, their knowledge gone.
The two shipbuilders are heading competing consortiums seeking to design the ship.
Even so, shipbuilders are expected to deliver 371 container ships this year and 127 in 2012, according to Alphaliner.
The firm points out, not unreasonably, that it has to buy Chinese ships because Brazilian shipbuilders are incapable of making vessels that are big enough for its needs.
FOR those who regard the smashing of a champagne bottle as a tragic waste, the problems facing the world's shipbuilders are excellent news.
Faces toughest national competition from Hyundai Heavy, and Chinese shipbuilders are expanding as well.
Software systems for large shipbuilders is based on the concept of the "Ship Product Model", in which the geometry and the attributes of all elements of the ship derived from the contract design and classification society structural requirements are stored.
The defiant radicalism of Jimmy Reid and the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders was a fading memory.
Shipbuilders were even more upset about the deal because they knew they lacked the capability to produce a comparable vessel.
Table 2 shows their overall OR for 5 or more years' work, which was 16.8 (95% CI 9.6 29.3), but the OR for metal plate workers (mainly shipbuilders) was 43.3 (95% CI 13.5 138.6).
