North Vancouver-based Seaspan Marine Corporation is teaming up with a Korean firm to get its operations ship-shape after being awarded an $8-billion federal contract.
Seaspan president Brian Carter says his company has signed a deal the STX Offshore and Shipbuilding Company to help upgrade Seaspan facilities.
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A technical team from STX will assist Vancouver Shipyards fine-tune operations by recommending improvements to shop layouts, material flow and production methods.
Carter says those ideas will be built into the shipyards’ final facility designs, making Seaspan more internationally competitive while ensuring long-term benefits for the federal government and the shipyard’s future customers.
STX is a leading global shipbuilder, turning 700,000 tonnes of steel into approximately 60 vessels each year.
Seaspan was awarded the lucrative contract to build non-combat vessels last fall, with construction of a fisheries research ship possibly beginning late this year or early in 2013.
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