Australia in Talks With France Over Troubled Submarine Contract
- Morrison discussed issues of cost overruns, delays with Macron
- Delays and cost overruns hit government’s contract with Naval
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has had “candid” discussions with President Emmanuel Macron over delays and cost overruns in his government’s deal with France’s Naval Group SA to build a new fleet of submarines.
Macron has had a direct role “in ensuring that we’ve seen a much-improved position come forward from Naval over the last six months,” Morrison told reporters in Paris. “We are coming up to important gates in that contract and there have been issues that we have had to address,” he said, adding that the master schedule and total costs of the project were some of the next steps to be determined.