These advances have allowed shipbuilders to reduce the size and weight penalties associated with electric drives.
The GMB asked for donations to be sent to the Appledore Shipbuilders Welfare Club.
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Now the talk is of winning even bigger orders, with employment once again for thousands of Tyneside shipbuilders.
Shipbuilders will likely float a dozen new rigs this year, with three old ones likely sent to the scrap heap.
Investors in South Korea ditched shares in technology companies, as well as cyclical plays such as steel companies and shipbuilders.
Appledore Shipbuilders was founded in 1855 and the firm had one of the biggest enclosed ship-building facilities in Britain in the 1960s.
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Using locally-sourced materials, shipbuilders stayed true to the original down to the exact thickness of the planks and position of the mast.
So why didn't the regulators, shipbuilders or operators make the obvious connection between lifeboat capacity and the total complement of passengers and crew?
The world's shipbuilders are unlikely to convert all of their huge backlog of orders into deliveries given their unrealistic workloads and likely cancellations.
This situation is reminiscent of the decision by Ronald Reagan in 1981 to eliminate construction subsidies for commercial shipbuilders because the aid was a market distortion.
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FastShip is also seeking loan guarantees from the American government to lower its cost of capital, but the Bush administration seems reluctant to offer subsidies to shipbuilders.
With binoculars, you can make out the sullen and bored expressions of the People's Army's soldiers standing guard, or the shipbuilders doing their wash in the river.
Logan's first senior position was as General Manager of Harland and Wolff shipbuilders, which was followed by his appointment as the Head of Coca Cola for Central Russia.
The country had also become home to the sort of industries that a strong military government would want plenty of, such as giant steel firms, car makers and shipbuilders.
An employee at Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, one of Japan's oldest shipbuilders, he is responsible for bending a precise curve into the giant steel plates that make up the hulls of seagoing ships.
Congress' just-passed 650 page corporate tax bill, known as the "American Jobs Creation Act, " has been rightly skewered for its pork, with handouts to cruise lines, shipbuilders, railroads, Nascar track owners and tobacco growers, among others.
But, like the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders with whom they share their initials, UCS were left to feel sold down the river as Airdrie United's rival bid was accepted by the administrator and Hall failed to help.
If 30-odd years ago, the Polish electrician Lech Walesa had called his new union the All-Gdansk Shipbuilders and Shunters instead of the simple and iconic Solidarity, my guess is that East German border guards would still be goose-stepping round Checkpoint Charlie.
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In the two decades since the Cold War ended, the number of domestic missile producers has declined from a dozen to four, the number of naval shipbuilders has shrunken from six to two, and the number of companies that can build manned military aircraft has been cut in half.
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