shipyard
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The memorandum also calls for a new public shipyard “to supercharge submarine repair and restore the American industrial base.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
In March, it completed the acquisition of naval shipyard NVL, partly in the expectation that it would secure a German order for six naval frigates that later fell through.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Nowadays big ships are usually built in blocks - then welded together - meaning bits can be built in one shipyard, then transported to another for assembly.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
But the government had concluded that handing over the work to NVL, a shipyard acquired by Rheinmetall in March, would be too costly, the defence ministry said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Here were all the workers in the shipyard unpaid for the last month.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
The much-anticipated deal also includes funding for infrastructure improvements at both shipyards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Navy to invest billions of dollars to modernize American shipyards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Expect to see shipyards and fabrication sites throughout the UK making bits of the new CCV motherships and drone vessels.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Scottish shipyards do have strong apprenticeship programmes and BAE has opened a shipbuilding academy at Scotstoun.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
That one temporary decision became irreversible, because no shipyards remained to turn out ships that would prove the folly of that temporary decision, and to serve as a focus for rebuilding other shipyards.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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