Chapter 1093 New Blood in Shipbuilding Industry

The maritime industry, represented by the shipbuilding industry, is an important part of the British economy: the maritime-related industries in the United Kingdom contribute a share of the economy of 13 billion pounds sterling, of which the shipbuilding and repair industry contributes nearly two billion pounds sterling, and the number of direct employees reaches 90,000 people.

Demand for the shipbuilding industry comes mainly from international shipping, and is closely linked to world economic growth and seaborne trade.

As an island nation, the decline of the shipbuilding industry would in itself mean that Britain would become irrelevant in the world economy. It is only right that Britain and Alan Wilson himself should want to save the shipbuilding industry.

The Ship and Transportation Committee also has an important task at hand, which is to rely on the accumulation of the British shipbuilding industry. Building patent barriers against the threat of Japanese shipbuilding.

In the meeting on saving the shipbuilding industry, Alan Wilson attributed the Japanese threat to the United States of America’s indulgence, the Americans could not take their own shipbuilding industry, there is nothing to lose, and borrowed even lower human rights of Japan, to dismantle Britain’s strong position in shipbuilding.

The first order of business is to adjust to the weak areas of Japanese shipbuilding, container ships and tankers. At the same time find ways to reduce costs, there is also to get France and Germany on the side of Britain within the framework of the European Community.

The East End of London is close to the North Sea, and although it is not as good as several major shipyards, there are some civilian shipbuilders present, and the first trainee workers in Malaya are going to be placed there.

The key is a few veteran shipbuilders, Allen Wilson even to interfere, these shipyards do not necessarily listen to Allen Wilson, on the contrary, some small shipbuilders, it is easy to adjust much, but also will not rely on seniority and connections, the guidance of Whitehall masculine.

Whitehall is an expert in defiance, and has done this to the Cabinet, and since Whitehall can do this, there is no reason why interests further down the line can’t do the same to Whitehall.

Taking out the option of revolution, incremental improvements start small, and it’s unwise to come up with a few big shipyards to move.

And it’s also true that the smaller shipyards are struggling more than the big ones right now, and are the first to be saved.

“Mechanically they should be modernized, and at the same time they should be made more efficient, and according to our surveys, Japanese shipbuilding is now twice as efficient as British shipbuilding. This of course has to do with the low human rights advantage, but shouldn’t it be stepped up? The matter of aging machinery can be solved by loans and updated equipment, the Japanese are hardworking, and we are also rich in management and accumulated experience.”

British shipyards are globally recognized as among those capable of providing the most comprehensive and sophisticated services.

Well-established repair and service facilities are available for virtually all types of seagoing vessels and offshore installations. The British company also specializes in providing ultra-responsive solutions to maintenance problems around the world.

With this configuration right here, there’s no reason why you can’t have a fight with the Japanese. Narrowing down the cost piece, now isn’t that coming?

Arriving at the shipyard, Alan Wilson met directly with the owner of the mid-sized shipyard to ask about food and housing for trainee workers.

“Once we get good results from here, several shipyards on the south coast, and Glasgow in Scotland will benefit from this, so I hope we won’t be disappointed.”

The distribution of the shipbuilding industry in the UK is interesting, in terms of percentage, several cities in Southampton, and arguably those in the English region, have the largest share. But in terms of individual cities, Glasgow in Scotland, located in Scotland, is the true center of shipbuilding in the UK.

Dozens of shipyards were built along the banks of the Clyde. The main industrial sectors are shipbuilding, machine building, electrical equipment, precision instruments, etc., of which the shipbuilding industry ranks first in the country, with dozens of shipyards.

The so-called rescue of the British shipbuilding industry, a few port cities in the English Channel is not a big problem, the real dependence on the shipbuilding industry in Glasgow if the problem, the trouble will be big. Saving shipbuilding would also help the balance between England and Scotland.

Being in the same country, it is better to have different economic divisions between the two sides. Neglecting Scotland’s interests for too long could also be detrimental to the UK itself. Glasgow’s manufacturing industry is the city’s central industry, with shipbuilding on the Clyde being a top priority.

Currently Glasgow local is the Labour Party in power, of course, now London’s Great East End is also, rely on manufacturing to eat the place largely, and did not because of the visit of this one shipyard is not large, Alan Wilson showed slack.

Rather, he was very conciliatory, talking about the help the country could give in shipbuilding and making it clear what kind of rights and benefits these assigned trainee workers should have.

“Are all the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs so all-rounded these days?” Granville couldn’t help but sigh, somewhat puzzled by the fact that the shipbuilding industry could still attract the concern of the Permanent Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“I am the secretary general of the newly established Ship and Transportation Committee, as for the trainee workers who came here for internship, I was still the high commissioner of Malaya before, in essence at one time they used to be the residents under my administration, so I am not willing to have something like racial conflict, before I had a very amicable cooperation with the Chinese, deeply know the nature of the Chinese workers, hard-working and willing to work won’t get into trouble, once there is a racial developments occur, I will personally investigate.”

“By the way, I am also the Secretary General of the Joint Intelligence Committee, initiating an investigation into a matter is easy for me.”

Alan Wilson’s tone was calm and not threatening anything, there was no possibility of favoritism towards the Chinese, he would naturally deal with the conflict in an impartial manner when something really happened, whoever caused trouble would pay the price.

This shipyard named after Granville’s surname, obviously a family business, into the factory can be seen, the current state of operation is not good, the entire plant is empty. If one played dead regardless, a shipyard of this size should be the first to close down.

It is also because the condition is not good, Alan Wilson will choose to start from here, maybe it will be easier to get results.

There were four other shipyards of similar size near the shipyard, and that was all the shipbuilding industry in the East End of London, and these shipyards would be dividing up the seven hundred trainee laborers, including several of Granville’s bosses, all of whom were now at Allen Wilson’s side.

“Change the signs to English and Chinese for both issues, something about safety and whatnot, don’t get it? That’s okay, I made up the English-Chinese dictionary, I’ll translate it for you.” Allen Wilson was wandering around, still talking about some details.

After a while, Allen Wilson sat down with a few shipyard bosses and waited for the first batch of trainee workers to arrive.

The knocks have been made, the supportive policies have been talked about, and now it is possible to imagine how to draw closer to the foreign workers to draw closer.

Granville several people are quite curious about Allen Wilson’s work history, asking about the local customs of Malaya.

Allen Wilson truthfully told him that it was still uncertain whether saving the shipbuilding industry would work now, and even if it did, the probability was that it would only slow down the decline of the shipbuilding industry, and there might come a time when at least part of the shipbuilding industry would have to be relocated to Malaya.

He was also happy to introduce the local situation in Malaya in front of these shipyard owners. Take the current industrial arrangement, the automobile production line is placed in the city of Malacca, Singapore is still doing oil refining center. Kuala Lumpur as the capital is a special case, and Penang actually still lacks a take home industry to drive development.

“The local area is pretty good except for the somewhat conservative social environment.” Alan Wilson told the truth.

“If we have the time, we are willing to go to the local area for a visit.” Granville said with an interested look.

“That’s really good news, in fact, as long as we treat each other as equals, there is no danger. The local position in the cabinet is extremely important, much more so than British India in the first place.” As Alan Wilson spoke, with a bus entering the factory, he knew that the trainee workers, who had been trained in vocational studies, had arrived.

“Welcome to London, my friends.” Alan Wilson switched to Chinese and greeted them before the dense mass of Asian faces, the line was a little scattered but generally kept quiet, such was the sense of order.

“Greetings, Mr. Lt. Governor!” The visitors apparently also all learned in advance that in front of them was the previous Malayan Administrator, and directly opened their mouths to respond to Alan Wilson’s greeting.

“A very nostalgic title, thank you.” When dealing with a different group of people, if there’s nothing to say, start by lamenting the vastness of the local culture, and Alan Wilson has plenty of experience working abroad, so that’s not a problem for him.

The speech was full of humility, both pride in the British Empire and recognition of the quality characteristics of the Chinese community, “I too used to take your fathers and mothers to work in Newfoundland over a decade ago. However, the work at that time was far less technical than it is now, the entire internship period is two years, it is up to you to accumulate as much work experience as you can, and I hope that you can go back at the end of the two years with an understanding of the entire shipbuilding industry.”

Interns in the mouth of the Lord of the Middle Temple is also not at all polite, up to wildly pouring chicken soup, with a bright future to cover up the interns only one-third of the embarrassing fact of the British native workers.

Why else would the internship be for two years? Two years is a price a young man can pay. But a longer period of time will not do. After all, chicken soup is just chicken soup and cannot be used as real money.

That is, these student intern workers just out of school still have dreams, having had a period of social work experience is not good enough to be fooled.

“Honorable bosses, sign the contract to go, if there is an industrial accident, I but will and impartial treatment.” Finally to a few shipyard bosses clear bottom line, Alan Wilson is ready to leave, “Ship and Transportation Committee will send people in your shipyard supervision, to protect the human rights of workers, as well as the shipyard operation of the environment is better or not to assess.”

A few people in Granville were full of solemn assurances that they would treat the new blood in the shipbuilding industry well.