Polish shipyard will build ships for the Navy. Ministry of Defence decided that a contract to supply three coastal defense vessels and three patrol will arrange domestic companies rather than foreign capital.
Even in June is expected to begin formal negotiations with the Polish Armament Group (PGZ) – IAR said deputy defense minister responsible for the modernization, Czeslaw Mroczek. He stressed that the native shipbuilding market analysis it was decided that it was the Polish company will build two types of naval vessels and coast guard patrol. This allows the procedure so-called ‘essential interests of security of the state “. It allows you to disable the proceedings from the public procurement rules, which require equal treatment of domestic and foreign companies from other European Union countries.
Polish Armaments Group will be the main coordinator of a future contract with the Ministry of Defence. President of the consortium Wojciech Dabrowski ensures that the company has the potential to perform this task. This is evidenced by the current contract with the Defense Ministry.
The share of possible foreign partner in this venture will be consulted with the Ministry of Defence – said Dabrowski
At the moment in Polish shipyards creates two warships. It’s about mine destroyer type “Kormoran 2″, which is building the Gdansk Repair Shipbuilding and ship patrol “Silesian” in the Navy shipyard belonging to PGZ. The ship hull is formed on the basis of the corvette “Rook”, which was built many years and never managed to finish it.
MON contracted a further two destroyers min “Cormorant”. The first one and “Silesian” are expected to come into service next year. Neither management nor the Ministry of Defence Armaments Group Polish authorities do not want to disclose the value of the event contract for the construction of six ships.
Radio Information Agency (IAR) /A.Drążkiewicz/KP
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