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Stern First. When the new, $36,000,000 Arendal yard of the Götaverken Ship Building Co. goes into production near Göteborg next spring, it will be the world's most fully automated shipyard, capable of building colossal, 140,000-ton ships on the industry's first real assembly line. It throws out the old method of building ships on stationary ways from the keel up. Instead, ships will emerge from a giant assembly shed stern first in 45-ft. sections; as they move down the ways, everything from deckplates to cabin carpets will...
...ruthless, intensive automation, which is backed wholeheartedly by a farsighted shipyard workers' union. Result: Swedish shipbuilders figure that they use only half as many workers as the Japanese on many jobs...
...Steel's Sparrows Point plant, it is the British Commonwealth's biggest steelmaker, with sales of some $413 million in the last fiscal year. Through 16 subsidiaries it makes everything from nails and rails to tools and tars, operates a fleet of 14 cargo ships and a shipyard, and is probing for oil off the Australian coast...
...this weekend's starting gun approached, the word in Newport was "Weatherly in four" in the best-of-seven competition for the America's Cup. Weatherly was ready. Well tuned by the trial races that made her the U.S. defender, she lay in the ways at Newport Shipyard undergoing final polishing, then was set in the water for minor ballast shifts. At week's end her crew arrived to pace out the dwindling days before the meeting with the Australian challenger Gretel. By contrast, the Australian 12-meter lay inert under the hurried tread of a dozen...
...Hamburg city administration felt small compulsion to go it alone to save Schlieker because his Hamburg workers were certain to land new jobs quickly in labor-short West Germany. So many of them did, in fact, that the neighboring shipyard which undertook to finish three of the big ships now on Schlieker's ways was having difficulty recruiting...