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The Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, where the Titanic was built in 1912, will resume operations after 30 years of inactivity. This is reported by the Financial Times with reference to the head of the London energy company InfraStrata, John Wood.
Wood said the company was awarded a £1.6bn contract last month to build three support ships for the Royal Navy in partnership with Spanish state owned Navantia, which “will breathe new life into the shipyard and with it the region.”
The new head of the shipyard noted that with its passage, Harland & Wolff engaged in a “major transformation”, and new contracts will expand production capacity and create up to 700 additional jobs. Construction of the navy’s support ships is due to begin in 2025, with all three to be completed by 2032.
Harland & Wolff was founded in Belfast in 1861 by Yorkshireman Edward Harland and German Gustav Wolff. By the beginning of the 20th century, the company became the largest builder of liners in the world – it employed more than 30 thousand people. From 1909 to 1911, the shipyard was building the then largest passenger liner, the Titanic, which sank during its first voyage – the ship collided with an iceberg, killing 1,496 people, and another 712 people were able to escape.
In addition to the Titanic, the shipyard built 140 warships, 123 merchant ships, and over 500 tanks during World War II. However, with the development of air travel in the late 1950s, demand for ocean liners collapsed, leading to a long decline in the company’s history.
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