shipbuilder
This country is in the middle of the biggest boom in naval shipbuilding since the Second World War.
The shipbuilding industry has had some tough times of late.
The company has still not decided whether to retain or dispose of its naval shipbuilding yards.

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shipbuilding | Business English

shipbuilding
noun[ U ]
 TRANSPORT, PRODUCTIONuk /ˈʃɪpˌbɪldɪŋ/us
the business of making ships:
Hundreds of jobs in shipbuilding will be lost.
The shipbuilding industry must modernize to survive.

Examples of shipbuilding

shipbuilding
The most prominent examples of industries in decline are coal mining, textiles, ocean transport and shipbuilding, nonferrous metals, and petrochemicals.
It inaugurated a programme of new shipbuilding, strategic debate, and technical development.
No doubt this, like the timber, serves shipbuilding and port and warehouse construction in support of commerce.
This combination of flexible machine shops and expertise in marine engines encouraged the development of shipbuilding in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Examples include all types of textiles, nonferrous metal refining, and shipbuilding.
Her study is of two northern industrial cities, both of which had large shipbuilding industries and big unskilled workforces in the twentieth century.
His research interests are engineering optimization, ship conceptual design systems, intelligent design assistants and design methodology, and their application to the shipbuilding industry.
Declining industries (coalmining, shipbuilding, textiles) were outsider industries, but they were 'outsiders' in a second spatial sense because of their geographic concentration.
For a people becoming dependent on the sea, as shipbuilding technology improved and land availability became restricted, this may have been a critical factor.
This section provides new evidence on the difficulties of mobilisation of both small and large firms during the war, drawing examples from textiles, shipbuilding and aircraft production.
Next he notes the practical importance of mathematics in the construction of the world's cities, in architecture both public and private, in shipbuilding, and in military technology.
The agricultural industry has lost 10,000 workers and the shipbuilding and marine engineering industry has lost another 10.000.
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