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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Canadian Navy looks to Europe for new ships

With its plan to construct a new fleet of navy supply ships in disarray, the Defence Department has dispatched a retired admiral to the Netherlands to look at the possibility of building the vessels there.

Retired rear admiral Ian Mack was recently sent to Europe for discussions with a Dutch shipyard as the federal government considers various options to salvage the navy's $2.9-billion Joint Support Ship project.

But any move to have the work done overseas, cutting out Canadian jobs in the process, will be met with stiff opposition from the country's shipbuilding industry, warns Peter Cairns, president of the Ottawa-based Shipbuilding Association of Canada.

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