More than half the 550 people building the polar research vessel are foreign, because of a “chronic skills shortage” SPLASH NEWSThe company building the £200 million ship dubbed Boaty McBoatface blamed a “chronic engineering skills shortage” in Britain for hiring more than 300 European workers to complete the polar research vessel. Despite Boaty McBoatface winning a public vote for the name of the new research ship, the fifth-placed name was chosen. Officially Boaty McBoatface is the name of one of the vessel’s underwater vehicles. Construction of the 128m-long ship was heralded as a jobs boost for British workers. Cammell Laird had said that about 500 local jobs would be created when it signed the contract to build…

Source: The Times November 21, 2017 00:02 UTC