内容摘要：When institutions stopped functioning in Aleppo after HTS and its allies captured the city earlier this month at the start of their lightning offensive, the SG stepped in to restore public services.

When institutions stopped functioning in Aleppo after HTS and its allies captured the city earlier this month at the start of their lightning offensive, the SG stepped in to restore public services.

Construction of the two ships got under way in 2016 but in difficult circumstances.Modernisation work was still ongoing at the shipyard. Old buildings were being ripped down and a huge new module hall was under construction.

In its original bid for the contract, Ferguson's had proposed building the two ships one after the other, delivering them nine months apart.But by now the new managers had decided to build them simultaneously, side-by-side on the yard's narrow slipway. Some workers doubted whether that was feasible.A bigger problem was that detailed design work for the ships was falling behind as the design team struggled to come up with a solution that ticked all the boxes and satisfied the customer, CMAL.

CMAL asked if the engines could be downsized - but the shipyard soon reported this was impossible unless other specifications were relaxed.Weeks of design time were lost waiting for key decisions to be made.

Meanwhile, the yard's new production manager, anxious about hitting fabrication milestones, instructed the workers to press ahead with the steelwork.

At first the yard focused on sections of the ship where they were confident the design would not change. That's not uncommon in commercial shipbuilding.He soon grew to love the cavern system, which dates back 350 million years, and by the age of seven he had explored it more than 100 times.

"It was surprisingly normal. You didn't think much of the cave because you became so used to it," he said.Growing up, Oliver said his friends thought it was "cool" and he even filmed a music video with his band in the caves.

"I think it was more when I went to university, you got people asking what your parents do," he added."When I said 'oh, we have a cave', the look on people's faces was quite interesting."