What do we make - what will they buy?
Spotlight on the export drive: new ideas - new products - new markets

Britain's reorganised shipbuilding industry is making a spirited challenge against its traditional 'enemy' - the fierce competition from Japan. New ideas are sweeping through the shipyards of Northern England, and at one of them a quiet revolution in the method of construction is steadily filling the order books. At a Wearside yard ships are being built with assembly-line regularity to attack one particular corner of the world market. But can the system survive for much longer, or be adapted to meet the ever-increasing size of tankers in the seventies?