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"It's been five years and the two shipyards haven't built a single ship," said Alex Vicefield, CEO of Inocea, a global shipping conglomerate that owns Quebec's Davie shipyard.
"All we hear are delays and cost overruns which are so high, they are turning the Canadian shipbuilding industry into an international embarrassment."
This guy might want to shut his piehole because, MIL Davie turned it into that decades ago. The end products with few exceptions received from MIL Davie by the Navy has left a stench so bad that Ottawa will likely never let a contract out to them ever again be it Liberal or Conservative.
This is the same company that once held a warship hostage while holding out for more money well above the cost they guaranteed. They screwed up 4 Tribal Class destroyers so badly that the Dockyards had to basically redo half the refit and it significantly shortened their life span. Things like compartments with one coat of paint and no primer. Firemain valves that let go. We even had one let go in the Fwd magazine causing the compartment to completely flood out and send a fire signal to the FDSAC panel. Not bothering to tell anyone about the The Fwd King post shafts being warped after putting in the VLS system. The engineering equipment required that the company from Germany send a rep over to fix the issues that they fouled up. I could go on for pages with the problems over and above the continual cost overruns that Davie Shipyards was responsible for.
Every contract let for Davie by the Gov't in the past 6 decades was based on politics rather than ability and performance. They used to do things like take the TSD staff out to supper drinks and a day of partying every Friday to try and get them to ignore some of the minor faults, which in reality turned into large faults. Anybody remember how Tony Soprano operated.
The place was a union den of iniquity and all you have to do is remember the Montreal Olympics with their inefficiency, ineptitude and cost overruns to see how MIL Davie operated. Is it still the same? Who knows but my guess is the unions and quite a few of senior management are still there which makes me think that it probably hasn't changed all that much.
Oddly enough though, the actual Shipbuilding yard didn't do that bad a job on the CPF's. Go figure. But, if I was to hazard a guess it would be that since the Gov't expected to sell alot of these warships offshore there was much more oversight than they ever had with the refit/conversion contracts they got.
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