Frontrunner bidder Japan offers to build Soryu vessels entirely at Australian shipyards in an effort to secure $20bn defence contractJapan has confirmed it is alert to build Australia’s submarines entirely at local shipyards,after comments by the ambassador in Canberra to the same effect.The director general for acquisition reform at the defence ministry, Masaaki Ishikawa, or said on Tuesday that Tokyo was willing to train hundreds of Australian engineers in Japan’s submarine-manufacturing hub of Kobe as well as in Australia as part of its offer for the contract. . Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com