His father owned radio and cable properties, with diversions into shipbuilding and jet charter.
Another retired worker was more optimistic, citing the long history of shipbuilding on the Queen's Island.
Through EBX, Batista controls companies spanning from mining, shipbuilding, energy, logistics, tourism and entertainment.
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Last year, three-quarters of production went toward the country's shipbuilding, automobile, construction and electronics industries.
In the 1970s, the steel and shipbuilding unions paved the way for broad wage rises.
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He proposes to partner with and transform the Maine shipbuilding industry into a floating turbine industry.
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It hopes its young shipbuilding industry will be a key element in achieving that goal.
The shipbuilding industry here hopes that if the global economy recovers, then it offers tremendous potential.
The yards on the river Clyde were once to shipbuilding what Silicon Valley is to tech.
Rather like shipbuilding half a century ago, he says, shipbreaking is a boom-and-bust business.
They hope to dig down and find more evidence of the shipbuilding use of the site.
He plans to cut back on naval shipbuilding, shrink our Air Force, and slash our ground forces.
No backlash from residents: Coastal shipbuilding towns have for years relied on foreign workers, most of them Latinos.
For 11 years he was blacklisted, and was barred from board appointments with British Shipbuilding and British Gas.
The largest hull section of HMS Queen Elizabeth was moved out of BAE's shipbuilding hall at Govan on Sunday.
Kvaerner, a European shipbuilding and engineering firm, has agreed to build the first four ships at its Philadelphia yard.
In Heiligendamm's home province the shipbuilding industry had shriveled, farms were struggling and unemployment reached into the double digits.
Its shipbuilding activities include the building of bulk carriers, crude oil carriers, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers and submarines.
He was born about the time the town was beginning to decline as a centre of shipbuilding and steel-making.
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Even in 1974, the Labour Government spent 2 years renationalising shipbuilding and the public spent 2 years wondering why.
Similarly they have been winding down in steel, shipbuilding, car assembly, television sets, and, of course, commodity semiconductors.
The group announced last April that it wanted to sell its shipbuilding operation but has yet to find a taker.
The three bulk carriers are the first new shipbuilding order placed by ADM designed to accommodate new post-Panamax needs.
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Put the Navy on the path to increase its shipbuilding rate from nine per year to approximately fifteen per year.
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Rio's boosters point to new investment in textiles, fruit, a new deepwater port and a resurgent steel and shipbuilding industry.
That will be a painful experience for a wide swathe of industries, from cars through to shipbuilding, defence and beyond.
To consider whether that was feasible, the authors analysed the global absorption capacity of three export industries steel, shipbuilding and machinery.
Investors looking for diversified companies that could benefit from the bustling shipbuilding market may want to consider Jurong's parent, Sembawang Corp.
Their shipbuilding unit last month announced 292 job cuts, with plans to slash another 350 by the end of the year.
Kure, a grimy shipbuilding town down the coast from Hiroshima, was home to the Imperial Naval Academy (still an officer school).
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