Appledore shipyard jobs

In a huge boost to the local economy following the recent. Unite regional officer Heathcliffe Pettifer said: “We have had preliminary.

And the company still wants to hear from interested workers who are being invited to submit CVs. InfraStrata, the UK- based London Stock Exchange-listed company specialises in the development, commercialisation and operation of strategic infrastructure sites.

New operator, InfraStrata, is hosting two events at the site for prospective employees on Thursday and Friday this week (September 10th and 11th).

You can unsubscribe at any time. Infrastrata hopes to bring in some 3jobs to the shipyard in the next months, with the. This is great news after what has been a turbulent two years. Appledore Shipyard closed in March.

It will also be able to accommodate other projects like steel fabrication for industry and construction. Workers leaving the shipyard.

The news that the shipyard will close next year has come as a blow to the area after Babcock.

Geoffrey is committed to helping the Government Taskforce as it identifies a new owner and develops opportunities to bring shipbuilding jobs back to the Torridge. Unite renewed its call today (September 4) for the government to review its procurement policies to ensure that British ships are built at UK yards, including the Fleet Solid Support Ships due to. We see enormous growth potential across all of these sectors.

Globally, there is an estimated £6bn pipeline of opportunities over the next five years,” said John. Unions have welcomed a deal to reopen a historic shipyard in Devon and urged the Government to give it work building ships. The order has gone to a Norwegian company instead. Mr Cox said KBR, the American owners of dockyard management firm DML, had recently assured him it was committed to a successful future for the yard.

During the coronavirus crisis Unite is working to keep workers and the public safe, to defend jobs and to protect incomes. The historic site near Bideford in Devon has been bought by. A skilled local workforce is crucial to our success and as part of the acquisition. In association with Irish Sailing.

A page dedicated to the unions campaign to save the yard. Please help and share it far and wide. I appreciate my hon. That is bound to cause anxiety to hon.

The closure threatened the jobs of 2workers in a yard that had built hundreds of ships and played a part in the second world war shipbuilding effort. Some Babcock workers were reassigned to a facility in Devonport.

Compared to other dockyards, i. BAES, CL, AP, HW and Babcock’s Rosysth, it lacks scale and other existing business to help it stand alone financially. The devastating news comes just days after hundreds of people marched.

What brilliant news this is for the Shipbuilding industry. This is excellent news for the local community, hopefully they can fill the yard with continual business and bring the workforce back to full numbers. We wish you all the success with this new venture.

Students spoke directly to PM Boris Johnson about the fantastic opportunities and prosperity that the shipyard will bring to the region. A lack of orders at the 163-year-old site means it is likely to face the axe with no new work lined up for its staff.

Among other grievances, the strike action was concerned with pay, which was £60-£less per week than Devonport workers in the same company doing equivalent jobs. A historic shipbuilding yard in north Devon is to reopen after it was bought by the natural gas storage company InfraStrata in a £7m deal on Tuesday.

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