‘Titanic’ builder selected for Falklands contract

Port Stanley

The Falklands Islands Government (FIG) has selected the Belfast-based shipbuilder to replace its FIPASS (Falklands Intermediate Port and Storage System) at Port Stanley.

The original facility was built and installed by Harland & Wolff though the UK Ministry of Defence in 1984, two years after the Falklands War, and the FIG bought it in 1988.

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