£1.6bn contract for Royal Navy support ships awarded

A British-led consortium has been chosen as the preferred bidder to build new support ships for the Royal Navy - creating 1,200 new jobs in UK shipyards and hundreds more in the supply chain - the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has said.
The £1.6 billion contract will see final assembly for the three vessels - each the length of two Premier League football pitches - take place at Harland & Wolff's shipyard in Belfast.
They will be built to an entirely British design by Bath-based BMT which forms the rest of the Team Resolute consortium along with Navantia UK.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the announcement was a "significant boost" to the UK shipbuilding industry.
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