Sinking feeling as UK shipbuilding contract is awarded to South Korean firm

Posted on 24 Feb 2012
Ministers and unions have come out against the Ministry of Defence’s decision to hand Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering a £452m contract for four new Royal Navy vessels. The new generation of 37,000-tonne Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) tankers ordered for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) could have been built in the UK. Prospect…

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