Scottish Affairs CommitteeWritten evidence submitted by BAE Systems
Over the last decade, BAE Systems Maritime and its legacy businesses designed, built and exported 17 ships and 20 small boats in contracts worth £2.093 billion. Combined with £835 million worth of technology transfers and the reactivation of five frigates once used by the Royal Navy, this creates a total value of £2.928 billion.
During this period, Scottish ship yards were involved, at least in part, in £1.487 billion worth of export contracts with BAE Systems. This includes the export of eight ships for Malaysia, Brunei and Brazil and the reactivation of five frigates for Romania and Chile respectively. Of these eight ships, only one was not built in Scotland, which was the first in class OPV originally for Trinidad and Tobago, but resold to Brazil. The physical reactivation work on the frigates was completed in Portsmouth, but the projects were led by teams in Glasgow who also managed the complex combat systems work.
|
Export destination |
Order |
Scottish involvement |
Technology Transfer |
No. of Ships exported |
Value (£m) |
Order date |
|
Malaysia |
Frigates 01–02 |
Entire build in Glasgow |
|
2 |
400 |
1992 |
|
Oman |
Qahir Corvette 01–02 |
|
|
2 |
240 |
1992 |
|
Qatar |
FAC Barzan Class 01–04 |
|
|
4 |
200 |
1992 |
|
Brunei |
F2000 OPV 95m 01–03 |
Entire build in Glasgow |
|
3 |
700 |
1998 |
|
Greece |
FAC Roussen Class 01–03 Design and TT build Greece |
|
Yes, built in Greece |
0 |
184 |
2000 |
|
Oman |
CG Police boats |
|
|
20 |
20 |
2002 |
|
Romania |
Reactivate ex UK Type 22 Frigates (2) |
Project and combat systems work in Glasgow |
|
2 |
117 |
2002 |
|
Greece |
FAC Roussen Class 04–05 Design and TT |
|
Yes, built in Greece |
0 |
135 |
2003 |
|
Chile |
Reactivate ex UK Type 23 Frigates (3) |
Project and combat systems work in Glasgow |
|
3 |
137 |
2007 |
|
Oman |
Khareef Corvette 01–03 |
|
|
3 |
400 |
2007 |
|
Trinidad and Tobago |
CG OPV 01–03 |
Two of the three ships were completed in Glasgow |
|
3 |
*Settled by arbitration following cancellation |
2007 |
|
Greece |
FAC Roussen Class 06–07 Design and TT |
|
Yes, built in Greece |
0 |
130 |
2008 |
|
Saudi Arabia |
Refit MLU Al Jawf minehunters |
|
Work completed in Saudi Arabia |
0 |
130 |
2009 |
|
Thailand |
OPV Krabi 90m Design only for build Thailand |
|
Yes, contract was for design only |
0 |
2 |
2009 |
|
Brazil |
Reactivate ex T+T OPV |
As above for Trinidad and Tobago, two of the three ships were completed in Glasgow |
Yes, manufacturing licence transferred |
0 |
133 |
2012 |
December 2012