No Time To Waste For Local Companies With Shipbuilding Opportunities

There may be some lead time with that 25 billion dollar shipbuilding contract awarded to Irving to construct combat naval vessels in Halifax but if Saint John companies want to get a piece of the action, they better get cracking........There's no time to waste. 

So advises Pat Darrah of the Saint John Construction Association.

Darrah says these will be sophisticated ships........It's not like building a row boat.

He adds the jobs, themselves, won't start appearing for about a year and that's why he remains concerned there are no major projects on the horizon locally this winter and next spring.