Industry Minister Steve Crocker is responding to the Opposition’s contention that the MOU reached to allow North Atlantic to lease the Bull Arm fabrication site requires greater scrutiny.

Opposition critic Lloyd Parrott believes the deal needs to be examined and questioned. He does not understand why a German company is being hired to handle logistics at the site.

“Rhenus, a logistics company out of Germany, is going to be handling all logistics at Bull Arm, while we have a locally-grown company here in Newfoundland, P.F. Collins, who are left on the sidelines doing nothing,” he told VOCM Open Line with Paddy Daly.

Crocker says the MOU has been released publicly and while North Atlantic has indicated that it will work with local companies, Bull Arm is an open yard.

“There’s still negotiation in this MOU. It’s an open yard, and that’s one of the things that we picked out of in this proposal that was very comforting to us, that this would be an open yard. Open to fabricators, open to other opportunities. Those are negotiations that obviously North Atlantic will have going forward and those are things we will certainly address in definitive agreements.”