NQEA

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NQEA Pty Ltd[http://search.asic.gov.au/cgi-bin/gns030c?acn=009_679_207&juris=9&hdtext=ACN&srchsrc=1 Aimtek Pty Ltd formerly NQEA Australia Pty Ltd formerly North Queensland Engineers & Agents Pty Ltd] Australian Securities & Investments Commission is an engineering and shipbuilding company based in Cairns, Australia. The company was founded in 1948 as an engineering supply company named North Queensland Engineers & Agents, then expanded in 1966 into shipbuilding and was renamed.[http://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001297b.htm North Queensland Engineers and Agents Pty Ltd (1948 - c. 1990)] Encyclopedia of Australian Science

NQEA has built several ships for the Royal Australian Navy (including the Fremantle-class patrol boats and Leeuwin-class survey ships).{{cite book |last=Saunders |first=Stephen |title=Jane's Fighting Ships 2004-2005 |date=2005 |publisher=Jane's Information Group |location=Coulsdon |isbn=0-7106-2623-1 |pages=30–31}} The company was contracted to build modules to form the hulls of the Hobart-class air warfare destroyer project in May 2009, but lost the contract a month later to BAE Systems Australia after admissions that an internal restructuring may lead to difficulties meeting the contracted obligations.{{cite journal|last=Grevatt |first=Jon |date=30 June 2009 |title=NQEA loses block-building deal for Australian destroyers |journal=Jane's Navy International |publisher=Jane's information Group}}

The company has also built catamaran ferries for the State Transit Authority (now operated by Sydney Ferries), London based Thames Clippers, and operators in French Polynesia and the Netherlands.{{cite web |url=http://www.nqea.com.au/river_runner.htm |title=River Runner Vessels |publisher=NQEA|accessdate=18 May 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://thamesclippers.s3.amazonaws.com/doc/ThamesClippers_Our_Fleet.pdf |title=Our Fleet |publisher=Thames Clippers |accessdate=18 May 2015}}