By Q Radio News
Shipbuilders Harland and Wolff have won a contract worth £8.5 million to build 11 barges.
The order will be built at the company's Belfast base, and will take until the middle of next year to complete.
Harland & Wolff, Group CEO John Wood, said:
“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.
“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.
“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 programme going forward.”
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