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Tue 07 Jul 2010Harland & Wolff charting a new course with ocean energy technology
BELFAST BRIEFING:REINVENTION IS the new buzzword when it comes to doing business in Belfast – whether it is the Orange Order reinventing its annual Twelfth of July marches as a supposedly tourist-friendly, revenue-earning “Orangefest”, or the determination of one of the North’s oldest companies to chart a new path despite stormy economic waters.
A century ago Harland & Wolff was one of the most successful shipbuilders in the world with a workforce of 15,000 people. Today, the giant cranes remain one of Belfast’s most enduring landmarks but not a single ship has been built in the city in the last seven years.
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