BlueScope steel will be used in Navy’s new ships

Glen Humphries
July 7 2018 - 1:30pm
Steel deal: A computer rendering of the BAE Systems' Global Combat Ship Australia, which will be made out of steel forged at the Port Kembla steelworks: Picture: BAE Systems
Steel deal: A computer rendering of the BAE Systems' Global Combat Ship Australia, which will be made out of steel forged at the Port Kembla steelworks: Picture: BAE Systems

The Port Kembla steelworks will benefit from the construction of nine new ships for the Royal Australian Navy.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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