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A&P Group Ltd is the largest ship repair and conversion company in the UK, with three shipyards located in Hebburn, Middlesbrough and Falmouth. The Company undertakes a wide variety of maintenance and repair work on commercial and military ships with projects ranging from a two-day alongside repair period through to multimillion UK pound conversion projects lasting for a year or more. ==History== The Company was established in 1971 as A&P-Appledore International Ltd (APA), a joint venture technology transfer consultancy between British shipbuilding companies Austin & Pickersgill and Appledore Shipbuilders, and focused on ship design and construction.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ap-group.co.uk/about-us/ )〕 Initially the business was directed towards the growing Far East market, as well as the Americas and Europe. Based on the production engineering solutions developed for the innovative 'ship factory' at Appledore in the late 1960s, and subsequently at Pallion, Sunderland, APA developed the formal Build Strategy approach. This was taken up by Hyundai when they developed the first modern shipyard in South Korea at Ulsanin the 1970s.〔 The Build Strategy template was subsequently adopted in British Shipbuilders' other shipyards, and in the USA.〔 Following sale of Appledore Shipbuilders to the Government at the time of the collapse of its parent Court Line in 1974, and the subsequent nationalisation of Austin & Pickersgill in 1977, the shareholding was purchased by its management.〔 APA acquired the shiprepair facilities of Falmouth Docks & Engineering Company in 1984 and they remain one of the Company's two major centres.〔 The Company subsequently focused on shiprepairs rather than shipbuilding,〔(A&P Group: Home page )〕 becoming A&P Group in 1995〔(The Manufacturer )〕 and being acquired by Royal Bank Development Capital in 1997.〔 Over the years the Company has operated shiprepair facilities in many parts of the world. From the mid-1970s until privatisation in 1994, the Neorion shiprepair yard on Syros was managed for the Greek Government. Dubai Drydocks opened in 1983 under APA management. The takeover of the former naval dockyard at Gibraltar as "Gibrepair" in 1985 was short-lived, a victim of local social politics. In 2001 the A&P acquired Cammell Laird's shipyards at Birkenhead, Teesside and Tyneside〔(A&P Holdings acquires Cammell Laird Holdings )〕 In 2005 A&P sold the Birkenhead yard to Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders〔(Ocean Liner Museum )〕 and closed its facilities in Southampton (King George V Dock) and the four dock complex in Wallsend, near Newcastle upon Tyne, in order to focus all ship repair activity in its newer facilities in Hebburn (A&P Tyne), A&P Tees at Middlesbrough was also retained to support the important Southern North Sea offshore oil and gas operations and dredging contractors; the strategically situated Falmouth operation (A&P Falmouth) was also retained. In 2009 A&P was fully acquired by Cardiff property developer Bailey Group; that company had previously acquired a 50% stake in 2006.〔http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/2009/07/16/bailey-group-takes-100-stake-in-ship-repair-firm-a-p-91466-24164835/〕 In 2011 APA was acquired by Atlantic & Peninsula Marine Services, which also has an interest in Cammell Laird.〔http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news/2011/03/02/new-owner-for-a-p-tyne-shipyard-51140-28260514/〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ap-group.co.uk/2011/03/01/ap-group-is-under-new-ownership/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A&P Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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