BAE Systems seals five-year deal with the US Navy to repair and modernise Pearl Harbor ships
BAE Systems has won a five-year contract with the US Navy to repair, maintain and modernise nine destroyers and cruisers in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The bombing of the naval base, depicted in the film Pearl Harbor starring Kate Beckinsale, pictured, will go down in history as drawing the US into the Second World War.
The defence group’s contract win is a continuation of work BAE (down 0.9p to 401p) has been performing on the same type of ships in Hawaii under a previous seven-year contract.
History: The bombing of Pearl Harbour was depicted in the homonym film starring Kate Beckinsale (pictured)
Bill Clifford, president of ship repair at BAE said the company’s performance on that contract paved the way for the follow-on deal. BAE operates seven full-service shipyards in the US, in Alabama, Florida, California and Virginia as well as in Hawaii, and employs more than 5,000.
It is scaling back its British naval shipyards, however. The company is calling an end to more than 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth when it closes its yard there at the end of next year, with the loss of around 1,800 jobs there and in its Scottish yards.
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