Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders

Company typePrivate

Founded2001

Defunct2008

Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders was a British shiprepair company based in Birkenhead on the River Mersey.

The company was founded by John Syvret, a former Cammell Laird manager, in 2001.^[1] In 2002 50% of the business was sold to Mersey Docks & Harbour Co. in exchange for the use of their dry docks.^[1] Then in 2005 the company acquired the former Cammell Laird yard at Birkenhead from A&P Group.^[2] In June 2008 the Company won an order to maintain 11 Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships.^[3]

Having acquired the rights to the use of the Cammell Laird name,^[4] in November 2008 the Company changed its name to Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Ltd.^[1]

References

1 2 3 Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport: History of the Company
↑ "Ocean Liner Museum". Archived from the original on 13 August 2006. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
↑ Northwest Shipbuilders win Royal Fleet contract Liverpool Daily Post, 12 December 2007
↑ Cammell Laird name returns to the Mersey Liverpool Daily Post., 24 October 2007

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