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The Submarine announcement is great news. It helps sure up the economic future of the Heartland - more so the Lefevre Peninsula than downtown Port Adelaide, but it could be the catalyst for a rejuvenation of that area and the Commercial Road shops. The club has to take advantage of this. With all our defence industry and military contacts the club should set up an advisory board like they did with the China team and Kochie's eastern seaboard team to work out how best to take advantage even if its multi-layered and multi-dimensional like the China strategy. At a minimum the club should invite every executive that comes over from France to witness our game day experience. Like with Mr Gui, you never know what could happen. Maybe invite the head of Renault as well as the head of DCNS over at the same time if they are in Asia and/or Australia at the same time.
But this article last weekend gives a hint of what is to come. Maybe the area can become that high tech hub, the old pubs, wool stores and other old building being converted into backpacker places and the places finally revived. Can't find it on line so here are the bits I though were relevant.
French keen to launch into sub mission.
Port Adelaide is set for a French takeover beginning next year as the first wave of submarine experts moves in at Techport and begins a massive upgrade of the infrastructure. Premier Jay Weatherill has visited the Paris headquarters of DCNS, the French company tasked with designing and building a fleet of 12 new subs in Adelaide as he attempts to maximise local jobs.
...... Mr Weatherill said the first obvious impacts of a sub build that is close to a decade away from cutting steel would be the influx of French experts tasked with refining the detailed design.
"They want to start work immediately. This means that we'll see a physical manifestation of work as soon as 2017 in Port Adelaide." he said. it's also the intention of DCNS to essentially transpose their operations here in France to Port Adelaide. They want to grow their operations in SA, in much the same way as they've constructed their operations here in France. That is massive news for us, a massive multinational company shifting operations to SA and using to SA and using that as a base to grow throughout the Asia Pacific region."
The State Government is currently mulling over an upgrade of Techport to help build future frigates and offshore patrol vessels. But Mr Weatherill said DCNS was planning a huge private investment.
"We'll see people on the ground (and) works in SA as soon as early in 2017," he said. "It will be....items of infrastructure. (But) precisely what they they will be. I don't want to go into that detail yet." Mr Weatherill said many of the French designers would likely become long term Australian residents and a large number of DCNS staff were already lining up for opportunity to shift to SA, and this would enrich the community. He Said, " As I understand it, these are plenty of volunteers."..........
But this article last weekend gives a hint of what is to come. Maybe the area can become that high tech hub, the old pubs, wool stores and other old building being converted into backpacker places and the places finally revived. Can't find it on line so here are the bits I though were relevant.
French keen to launch into sub mission.
Port Adelaide is set for a French takeover beginning next year as the first wave of submarine experts moves in at Techport and begins a massive upgrade of the infrastructure. Premier Jay Weatherill has visited the Paris headquarters of DCNS, the French company tasked with designing and building a fleet of 12 new subs in Adelaide as he attempts to maximise local jobs.
...... Mr Weatherill said the first obvious impacts of a sub build that is close to a decade away from cutting steel would be the influx of French experts tasked with refining the detailed design.
"They want to start work immediately. This means that we'll see a physical manifestation of work as soon as 2017 in Port Adelaide." he said. it's also the intention of DCNS to essentially transpose their operations here in France to Port Adelaide. They want to grow their operations in SA, in much the same way as they've constructed their operations here in France. That is massive news for us, a massive multinational company shifting operations to SA and using to SA and using that as a base to grow throughout the Asia Pacific region."
The State Government is currently mulling over an upgrade of Techport to help build future frigates and offshore patrol vessels. But Mr Weatherill said DCNS was planning a huge private investment.
"We'll see people on the ground (and) works in SA as soon as early in 2017," he said. "It will be....items of infrastructure. (But) precisely what they they will be. I don't want to go into that detail yet." Mr Weatherill said many of the French designers would likely become long term Australian residents and a large number of DCNS staff were already lining up for opportunity to shift to SA, and this would enrich the community. He Said, " As I understand it, these are plenty of volunteers."..........