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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Owner of Belfast shipyard that built Titanic to enter administration

the huge yellow cranes pictured beneath a stormy sky
The famous cranes at the Harland & Wolff Belfast shipyard. Photograph: Radharc Images/Alamy

Harland & Wolff, the owner of the Belfast shipyard that built the Titanic, is to enter into administration this week after failing to find new funding, in a blow to UK government hopes of shipbuilding in the city.

The company said that it was insolvent and was expecting to appoint administrators from Teneo imminently.

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