Shannow liked the big shipbuilder and listened as he talked of his family, his gentle wife Pashad, and his sons; of the ships he had built and the voyages he had sailed.

The country's biggest shipbuilder, defence contractor and nuclear power plant concern, said sales slipped 1.4 percent to 2,784 billion yen, depressed by lower revenue from most activities except power systems which were flat.

Mitsubishi Heavy, the country's biggest shipbuilder, defence contractor and nuclear power plant concern, said its pre-tax earnings dived 16 percent from a year earlier to 128 billion yen (1.2 billion dollars).

These are recognition patterns out of my files-of ships built by our biggest shipbuilder.

Bremer Vulkan-Verbund, once Germany's biggest shipbuilder, said yesterday that bankruptcy proceedings had formally begun, though work would continue at most operations.

Belfast's famous shipyard, Harland and Wolff, which in the early 20th century was the world's biggest shipbuilder, suffered from intense international competition during the 1970s and 1980s and declined rapidly.

Bath Iron Works is one of the country's biggest shipbuilders and an important military contractor.

The reorganization of European industry reached into the heartland of Norway today, when the Continent's biggest shipbuilder announced plans to sell all its shipyards and other money-losing businesses.

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Reliance on Government Work Government work is especially important to Bath and other big shipbuilders because there is almost no commercial work in the United States anymore.