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Australians in Manche for sub training
Australian accents will be more common in Cherbourg soon as up to 150 Australian engineers arrive for training following a submarine contract.
Australia is paying €35bn for the construction of 12 submarines between 2022 and 2050 and France is also training teams on how to maintain them.
The top ‘Australia guy’ at French industrialists Naval Group, in charge of the project, Jean-Michel Billig, said: “We’ve a dozen years to get the Australians to understand and master our savoir-faire.”
