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Originally Posted by Franco401
Restarting the drydock is not viable. The drydock might just be sitting there but the assembly hall is now the wallboard plant. It's had plenty added onto it in the last couple decades and probably can't be converted back, even if Irving wanted to. It's also much smaller than the one in Halifax. As for the drydock itself, it's been sitting idle for 26 years. A retrofit could be so extensive as to make it as expensive as commissioning an entire new facility.
Irving would never go for it, and we have no party in existence at the federal or provincial level willing to make those kinds of big swings like nationalisation or just establishing a new entity to expand industry at that scale.
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Not viable? Based on?
As for retrofitting the dry dock costing anywhere near the cost of building a new, 350 meter dry dock… I
highly doubt that… the cost to replicate the dry dock alone elsewhere would likely cost into the billions.
Also, the assembly hall probably not being able to be converted back… doubtful. If it was converted from an assembly hall to a factory, it could be converted back to a shipbuilding assembly hall, if needed.
The RCN has a distinct shortage of dry dock capacity, and those shortages are only going to get worse in the coming decades. The Saint John Dry Dock remains one of the two largest dry docks in the country, and remains the largest dry dock in Eastern Canada, despite it no longer operating.
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