Team Resolute fended off competition from all-British bid
New Royal Navy vessels are to be built at the Belfast shipyard where the Titanic was built over 100 years ago in a boost for the British shipbuilding industry.
An Anglo-Spanish consortium, which includes the Northern Irish shipyard Harland & Wolff, has been handed the Government contract to build support ships. Final assembly will be done at the Belfast yard where the Titanic was constructed between 1908 and 1912.
The contract has been awarded to Team Resolute, which includes designer BMT, Harland & Wolff and Spain’s Navantia. The group fended off competition from an all-British bid from defence giants BAE Systems and Babcock, as well as an offer from Indian shipyard Larsen & Toubro.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the deal was a “feather in the cap” for Harland & Wolff’.