Monday, 18 June 2012

Britain’s Rolls-Royce wins 1 bn UK nuclear submarines deal

The investment will protect 300 jobs at the factory and many others at suppliers elsewhere, sources told Reuters on Sunday. – AFP photo

LONDON: Britain’s Rolls-Royce on Monday said it had signed a contract worth more than 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) with Britain’s defence ministry to deliver reactor cores for the UK’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet.

The deal includes the refit of Rolls’ submarine propulsion reactor factory at Derby in central England, where Rolls plans

Read more ...

No comments:

Post a Comment