A&P Group
| A&P Group
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| legal form | Limited |
| Seat |
Hebburn , UK
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| management | Andy Shaw |
| sales | 91 million pounds (102 million euros ) |
| Branch | shipbuilding |
| Website | www.ap-group.co.uk |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
The shipyard group A&P Group with repair yards in Hebburn , Middlesbrough and Falmouth emerged from the traditional shipbuilding company Austin & Pickersgill , which formerly operated shipyards in Southwick ( City of Sunderland ), Sunderland on the River Wear in North East England .
history
The company was founded in 1954 through the merger of the William Pickersgill shipyard in Southwick am Wear with the SP Austin & Sons shipyard, also located in Sunderland . The former Pickersgill Shipyard, Southwick Yard, was modernized for about three million pounds sterling over the next four years and then took over the construction of new ships. SP Austin & Sons' Wear Dock Yard was used as a repair yard after the merger. In 1957, the majority stake in A&P was acquired by a consortium led by the shipping company London and Overseas Freighters in collaboration with the shipping and ship insurance company Lambert Brothers Ltd. and the London trading bank Phillip Hill, Higginson, and the company was finally taken over in 1970 . In 1961 Austin & Pickersgill had around 1,200 employees and from 1962 onwards, in the course of converting shipbuilding to sectional construction , standard designs for series ships, initially for bulk carriers, were offered.
From the mid-1960s, the development of a Liberty replacement ship type began . The Greek-born chairman of the shipping company London and Overseas Freighters, BM Mavroleon, who has good contacts with Greek shipping circles, has a great influence in this context. The result was the well-known SD14 ship type, which was manufactured here from 1967 and by other shipyards under license until 1988. In 1968 the Bartram & Sons shipyard, also located on Wear , was taken over after having previously worked together on the SD14 freighter. In the same year they began again to modernize the Southwick Yard shipyard.
On July 1, 1977, the A&P shipyard group with 2900 employees was incorporated into the state-owned British Shipbuilders Corporation . As almost the only British shipyard these days, it was able to show full order books thanks to its successful SD-14 series. Therefore the workforce did not decrease significantly until 1980. In the first half of the 1980s, the successor ship types to the SD-14, such as the SD-18, were constructed, but only three units of which could be sold in 1980/81. In 1986 the shipyard and its now only 1,800 employees merged with Sunderland Shipbuilders, which had emerged from the William Doxford & Sons shipyard, and their approximately 2,000 employees remained, and the re-privatization under the name North East Shipbuilders Ltd. .
From 1988, after long negotiations with the European Commission to reduce shipyard capacity, there was no further aid from the British government. Shipbuilding was finally stopped and around 6,000 employees lost their jobs. There were allegations in this connection that the closure of the Sunderland shipyards was a precondition for the continued existence of the Govan shipyard in Glasgow .
Although Sunderland subsequently received the equivalent of £ 45 million in grants from the European Economic Community for restructuring measures and the retraining of workers, the failure of the last A&P holdover, the mechanical engineering company Pallion Engineering, could not be prevented. In addition to the relocation of commercial and commercial enterprises, the St Peter's Campus of the University of Sunderland is now also located on one of the former shipyard premises.
The remaining company acquired Appledore Shipbuilders in 1989 and is then renamed A&P Appledore International . A & P then concentrated on ship repairs and conversions, was renamed the A&P Group again in 1995 and was finally acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1997 .
In 2001 A&P bought the traditional shipbuilder Cammell Laird , which operates shipyards in Birkenhead , Teesside and Tyneside . The shipyard operations in Birkenhead will be transferred to Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders in 2005 .
The company, with more than 1,000 employees and about £ 50 million pounds of annual revenue is from today CEO out David Ring.
Today's shipyard locations
A&P Tyne
A&P Tyne in Hebburn , Tyne and Wear , UK is on the River Tyne . The company, which also includes parts of the former Hawthorn, Leslie & Company and Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company shipyards , has two dry docks, of which only one is currently in use, two piers , called Bede Quay and West Quay , and a large steel construction hall . The site has eight cranes with a lifting capacity of up to 100 tons, as well as steel, pipe and machine workshops. The A&P Tyne dry dock is 259 meters long, 45.7 meters wide and 5.6 meters below sea chart, the largest on the British east coast.
A&P teas
A&P Tees in Middlesbrough , UK is on the River Tees . The shipyard includes two dry docks with a length of 175 and 120 meters, six cranes with a lifting capacity of up to 45 tons, as well as various workshops.
A&P Falmouth
A&P Falmouth in Falmouth (Cornwall) , Great Britain went from Falmouth Shiprepairers Ltd. and is the UK's largest ship repair yard, and is located in the world's third largest natural deep water harbor at the mouth of the River Fal. A&P Falmouth has three large dry docks that can be used to dock ships up to 100,000 DWT . The largest of these, the so-called Queen Elizabeth Dock, is 252.8 meters long, 39.6 meters wide and 5.6 meters below chart zero. Dock number 3 is 221 meters long, 28 meters wide and 3.2 meters below chart zero. Dock number 4 is 172.5 meters long, approximately 26 meters wide and is 2.9 meters below chart zero. The shipyard's four berths are County Wharf , Duchy Wharf , Queens Wharf and South of Queens Wharf . The site has six cranes with a lifting capacity of up to 60 tons, as well as steel, pipe, electrical and machine workshops.
See also
literature
- Lingwood, John: SD14 . The Great British Shipbuilding Success Story. World Ship Society, Kendal 1976, ISBN 0-9500044-8-0 .
- Lingwood, John: SD14 . The full story. World Ship Society, Kendal 2004, ISBN 1-901703-64-9 (English).
Web links
- Entry in Grace's Guide
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brochure ( Memento of July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), September 2014
- ↑ Entry in Companies House
- ↑ a b Shipbuilding on the Wear: Part 2. (PDF) A brief history of Sunderland's Shipyards. (No longer available online.) In: www.sunderland.gov.uk. Archived from the original on March 26, 2009 ; accessed on July 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Entry on London & Overseas Freighters News (English)
- ↑ a b c d Stråth, Bo, The Politics of De-Industrialization , Croom Helm Ltd, Beckenham, 1987, pp 120th
- ↑ What was the last nationalization? The BBC News on February 18, 2008 (English)
- ↑ Entry at Tyne & Wear Archives (English) (PDF; 545 kB)
- ↑ Last shipyard ( Memento of November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) BBC News on November 28, 2008 (English)
- ^ Parliamentary requests ( Memento of February 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) April 18, 1989 (English)
- ↑ A&P Group: Home page
- ↑ a b The Manufacturer ( Memento of November 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on May 9, 2015.
- ↑ Acquisition by A&P Group Holdings Ltd of assets of Cammell Laird Group plc. (No longer available online.) In: www.alacrastore.com. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; accessed on July 6, 2013 .
- ^ Ocean Liner Museum ( Memento from August 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive )