Merchant Shipyard
Merchant Shipyard: Cargo ships, liners and tankers built on the slipway. A merchant yard builds to order for shipowners at home and abroad, and its order book…
Cargo ships, liners and tankers built on the slipway. Launch the ships the world's owners order, when they order.
A merchant yard builds to order for shipowners at home and abroad, and its order book swings harder than almost any trade: full in a boom, empty in a slump, and the berths cost money either way. Ships are sold at a fixed price with stage payments, and a contract that overruns loses money for years. Foreign yards, above all Japan's, take the trade from the 1960s.
- Setup costs
- £5,500,000 to £55,000,000
- Competition
- High
- Category
- Heavy Industry & Energy
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