THE Belfast shipyard known for building the Titanic, Harland & Wolff, has won its first new order since its insolvency in 2019, reports Ventura, California's gCaptain.
The order calls for 11 barges for UK-based waste management and recycling company Cory for operation on the River Thames around London.
The initial contract is worth US$10.62 million. Fabrication will take place at Harland & Wolff's Belfast site in Northern Ireland, where steel cutting is expected to take place in eight weeks.
The programme will allow four barges to be built in tandem with all 11 barges to be delivered by mid-2023.
"With this material contract, we shall be opening up our vast undercover fabrication halls in Belfast and making optimal use of our new robotic welding panel line," said Harland & Wolff Group CEO John Wood.
"This contract gives us the opportunity to optimise our production flows in readiness for other fabrication programmes in our pipeline and it demonstrates the variety of fabrication work that our facilities are ideally placed to execute upon."
The Belfast shipyard has roots dating back to 1861.
"I am delighted to have secured this contract with our new client, Cory Group, and look forward to working very closely with them to deliver on their new barge investment program going forward," said Mr Wood.
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