Shipbuilding News – Early July 2025
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The Ferguson Marine shipyard has signed a contract to build three sections of a Royal Navy warship which is currently under construction on the River Clyde. The shipyard is owned by the Scottish government, and last week a committee of MSPs warned it needed urgent investment to allow it to survive.
The value of the new contract is unclear – as is the time it will take to complete.
The Port Glasgow yard only had one contract remaining on its books – to finish off the long-delayed CalMac ferry, MV Glen Rosa. With that vessel due to sail next summer, concerns were growing about what work the yard and its 300-strong workforce would do next. Now it has confirmed the signing of a new contract with the defence giant BAE Systems.
