- Fleet Support Limited
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company_name = Fleet Support Limited
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company_type = Private
foundation =1996-06-06
location_city = Portsmouth
location_country = United Kingdom
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parent =BAE Systems VT Group
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homepage = [http://www.fleet-support.co.uk/ www.fleet-support.co.uk]
footnotes =Fleet Support Limited (FSL) is a British company formed to run the Portsmouth Fleet Maintenance and Repair Organisation (FMRO) on a commercial basis. The FMRO was an agency of the Ministry of Defence responsible for repair and maintenance of
Royal Navy vessels. FSL performs this task but also undertakes commercial work such as shiprepair, refitting, conversion and hull fabrication. FSL also carries out heavy engineering work andnondestructive testing for the marine and engineering sectors.FSL was founded as a joint venture between Vosper Thornycroft (now
VT Group ) andGEC-Marconi . GEC's 50% share passed to its successorBAE Systems in 1999. In July2008 BAE Systems and VT Group merged their military shipbuilding businesses to formBVT Surface Fleet . This included FSL, which is now branded as 'BVT Surface Fleet Support Limited'.
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