Fincantieri will supply four Offshore Patrol Vessels to Guard Costiera of Bangladesh



The shipbuilding society Italian Fincantieri has adjudicated a contract with Guard Costiera of Bangladesh (BCG) for the supply of four corvettes of the class "Minerva" of Marina Militare Italiana to modernize and to transform in Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) and of the relative integrated logistic support.

Fincantieri has explained that these units, destined to being dismesse from Marina Militare Italiana for being replaced from new ships in the within of the program of renewal of the fleet, are yielded by Marina Militare Italiana with a contract of retrovendita undersigned from the Direction of the Naval Armaments and from the same Fincantieri.

For the first couple of ships, Minerva and Sibilla, 14th May to Augusta, the presence of the Chief of Staff of Marina, admiral De Giorgi, have taken place the last one lower flag of the units. On 29 June the two corvettes have reached near the Fincantieri basin of Genoa where they have taken to start the work of modernization and conversion that will be completed near the military arsenal of La Spezia. Al term of these activities the units will be delivered by Fincantieri to Guard Costiera of Bangladesh.

Al term of the participations of modernization, that they will be carried out in Italy and they will last about two years, the units Minerva, Sibyl, Urania and Danaide will go to constitute the carrying skeleton of the fleet of Guard Costiera of Bangladesh with an extension of the advanced operating life to twenty years. The units will be used with purpose of patrolling for the control of the traffics of the Exclusive Economic Zone and the marine borders, with ability also to control of the environmental pollution and recovery and assistance to the civilians in case of humanitarian emergencies.

To sign the contract they have been Paolo Frino, director Post sale and services of the Direction military ships of Fincantieri, and Mohammad Majedul Haque, director of the Planning and the acquisitions of the BCG, during a ceremony happened to the presence of Mario Palma, ambassador of Italy to Dhaka, Mozammel Haque Khan, senior secretary of the Ministry of the Internal Transactions (from which the BCG it depends), Massimo De Benedictis, regional commercial manager of Fincantieri, and rear admiral Mohammad Makbul Hossain, general manager of the BCG.

Fincantieri has emphasized that, in the within of the development of own activities in Far East, this contracted covers detail importance for the company in the segment of market of the supply of services post sale on military ships, as allows to offer to all the range of proponibili services, is for the platform that for the system of combat: from those manufacturers of "Maintenance, Repair, Overhall and Conversions" to those legacies to the "Life Cycle Management" of the units through are the supply of logistic services, "Integrated Logistic Support", typically developed during the construction or the conversion, are those manutentivi of "In Service Support", developed to post delivery, during the exercise of the ship.