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VT Halmatic ‘Streamlining’ Shuts Steel Division
01 Feb 2007
This year will see the company launch new design military patrol craft in 16m, 20m and 29m versions, while continuing to produce RIBs for military and special forces applications. The 16m patrol craft is based on the same hull form as the company’s new 16m pilot boat. VT Halmatic will continue building standardised pilot boats based on this design but will move away from producing economically non-viable ‘one-off’ vessels. A spokesman said the company was ‘streamlining for the next 20 to 30 years.’
With the move towards an emphasis on fast patrol craft, VT Halmatic returns to a sector in which it was noted for decades and where there is now, ironically, a perceived gap in the market which the new range will fill. There is growing demand for fisheries, oilfield and EEZ patrol craft as well as for purely military applications. VT Halmatic will continue to lay up hulls for Sunseeker luxury yachts, another growth market, and may enter into alliances with other yards for the production of Nelsons and other older designs.
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