The word "shipyards" is correct and well written.
It is used to refer to places where ships are built, repaired, or maintained. Example: "The company invested heavily in modernizing its shipyards to increase efficiency." Alternatives include "dockyards" or "shipbuilding facilities."
Some observers have maintained that the decline of the shipyards is punishment for a hubristic sense of primacy among the Protestant working class.
Our pylons, like our roads and railways, our canals and our shipyards, show our presence here; they form part of our history as much as our cathedrals and our stately homes.
"When my family worked in the shipyards, they were told how to vote by their shop stewards.
From craggy glens to rocky Cornish coves; from tumbling Yorkshire stonewalls to green and boundless Welsh fields, to the Kent hops; from the vast flat plains of netherlandish Norfolk to the grey formal stones of the New Town; echoing through the silent shipyards of those great brothers-in-arms: Glasgow, Liverpool, Belfast?
The Kauri pine, from which the columns were built, was a cheap ballast material, he says, brought back in boats from New Zealand and readily available at the Glasgow shipyards.
To send spies to shipyards across Britain to check workers were not sabotaging vessels destined for Chile.
On Monday ThyssenKrupp, a German steel conglomerate, announced a merger of its shipyards with Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, a German submarine-maker.
Whereas Chinese workers may be relatively cheap, large South Korean or Japanese shipyards exploit economies of scale that smaller Chinese yards cannot.
Between the end of 2006 and July 2008, shipyards received enough commissions to double the world's fleet.
The world's shipyards saw their order books expand by one-third in the year to January 2005.
The unprepared visitor to Glasgow looks in vain for teeming tenements blackened still by grime and soot, and searches an empty skyline for the thicket of cranes that rimmed the cacophonous shipyards.
