Company type | Private |
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Industry | Shipbuilding |
Founded | 2001 |
Defunct | 2008 |
Fate | Name change |
Successor | Cammell Laird |
Headquarters | Birkenhead, UK |
Key people | John Syvret, ( Chairman) |
Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders was a British shiprepair company based in Birkenhead on the River Mersey.
The Company was founded by John Syvret, a former Cammell Laird manager, in 2001. [1] In 2002 50% of the business was sold to Mersey Docks & Harbour Co. in exchange for the use of their dry docks. [1] Then in 2005 the Company acquired the former Cammell Laird yard at Birkenhead from A&P Group. [2] In June 2008 the Company won an order to maintain 11 Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships. [3]
Having acquired the rights to the use of the Cammell Laird name, [4] in November 2008 the Company changed its name to Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Ltd. [1]