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Britain’s martime economy
20th June 2008
The BBC is hugging the coastline of Britain for the next ten days with a series of reports on the state of the martitme economy. In this first report, Declan Curry looks at a deal to build aircraft carriers in Portsmouth. Declan’s reporting log can be found here - in the first piece he focuses on the impact that skills shortages are having on the British shipbuilding industry