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Fincantieri will collaborate with Indian ship yards MDL and GRSE
the cooperation in the within of the construction of seven frigates commissioned from Marina Indiana
December 22, 2015
Yesterday the navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri has signed a contract with Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL), one of the more important Indian yards controlled from the Defense Ministry and specialized in the construction of military units and offshore, for the supply of technical advising in the within of the Project 17A, that it previews the construction of seven frigates in February stealth commissioned from Marina Indiana to the two yards of MDL and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) of this year.
Fincantieri has emphasized that this important contract allows with the group to establish a cooperation been extended with the two yards and to consolidate own commercial presence in the area.
The supply will interest part of the functional project on specific systems, the development of the planning of detail finalized to the construction integrated on the two yards, the optimization of the planning processes and modular construction, training and the technical assistance for all the phases of the program until the delivery.
The Project 17A is the continuation of Project 17 - that is three frigates stealth multirole Shivalik class constructed to Mazagon between 2000 and 2010 - for Marina Indiana. It previews the construction of a total of seven frigates of the length of 149 meters with a displacement of 6.400 tsl. With a developed project of functional base and from Marina Indiana, the ships will be constructed to MDL and GRSE, than also through the advising of Fincantieri they will be modernized and upgraded in order to adopt the technique of modular construction and that which it is defined as "integrated construction".
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