Blohm & Voss, a leading shipbuilder, isn't saying.
If the explanation is merely larger helpings of debt – in an economy assumed to be riddled with bad loans and loss-making steel makers, shipbuilders and other state-backed enterprises – that is not sustainable either.
Mick Little, the graying former shipbuilder at the center of Ross Raisin's second novel, "Waterline," is not a terribly remarkable man.
A state-owned bank is not about to call in a loan from a state-owned shipbuilder.
But with only three ship-related businesses, today's yard is not the same place where a teenage Pete Hamill worked as a sheet metal worker, or where Arthur Miller, fresh out of college, pulled 11-hour night shifts as a shipbuilder.
However, just as the ultimate beneficiaries of repealing the luxury yacht tax were not the rich but rather the shipbuilders and boatyards, the ultimate beneficiaries for Ex-Im will be the workers, managers, and investors that finance export activity.
In a speech to the occupying shipbuilders, shown across the UK and abroad, he said: "We are not going to strike.
LITTON INDUSTRIES, Woodland Hills, Calif., third-largest shipbuilder supplying the United States Navy, said its shipbuilding division had signed an agreement to design at least two cruise ships for SeaAmerica Cruise Lines Inc., Hollywood, Fla. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Although a triple turret was first proposed in American professional magazines in 1901 and briefly considered for the South Carolinas, it was not even in the experimental stage the first turret was authorized in 1911 and would not be ready until months after contracts for the new ships would be signed with the shipbuilders.
Dad's family were working-class shipbuilders from Sunderland, so entertainment wasn't in his blood either, but, like my mum, he loved singing and acting, and always got the lead part in all the local amateur productions.
