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Manama: Providing maritime training and sharing expertise in ship-building will be discussed as Indian officials are in Bahrain for joint naval drills.
Two Indian naval ships – INS Deepak and INS Tabar – docked in Mina Salman Port yesterday to enhance bilateral ties and engage in naval exercises with regional forces.
The vessels, which are part of the Indian Navy’s Western Fleet based in Mumbai, will be here until Saturday.
“The Indian Navy with its vast and competent experience can provide training to the Bahraini Navy and the two nations can share and learn from best practices, which will initiate with the joint exercises on Saturday,” INS Deepak Captain Sujith Kumar Chettri told the GDN.
“We are contouring the plans for initial naval exercise which will take place on Saturday while the other area of co-operation under consideration is the possibility of collaboration in the ship building industry.
“The contours of this prospect, however is still to be defined.
“These kinds of visits to this region are important given the prominence of oil and energy security requirements.”
He added that another potential area of co-operation was combating the threat of terrorism.
He was speaking at a press conference on board the INS Deepak, a modern fleet tanker which is docked alongside the INS Tabar, which is one of the front-line combatants of the Indian Navy’s Western Fleet.
Indian Navy Defence Attache for Oman and Bahrain Captain Narayanan Hariharan said the co-operation they have received from Bahraini officials was “unparalleled”.
“The enthusiasm of the Bahraini officials was encouraging and unparalleled and the parameters of passage exercises will be defined in these two days,” he said.
“This, we hope, will be a platform and building block to move forward and regarding co-operation between the two countries the sky is the limit.”
INS Tabar Captain Ashutosh Ridhorkar was also present at yesterday’s Press conference.
The ships are among four vessels deployed to the Gulf for a month-long visit and will head to Oman and Kuwait before returning to India.
Meanwhile, Indian Ambassador Alok Kumar Sinha and the captains of the vessels hosted a reception, onboard INS Tabar last night, which was attended by diplomats and government
officials.
Two Indian naval ships – INS Deepak and INS Tabar – docked in Mina Salman Port yesterday to enhance bilateral ties and engage in naval exercises with regional forces.
The vessels, which are part of the Indian Navy’s Western Fleet based in Mumbai, will be here until Saturday.
“The Indian Navy with its vast and competent experience can provide training to the Bahraini Navy and the two nations can share and learn from best practices, which will initiate with the joint exercises on Saturday,” INS Deepak Captain Sujith Kumar Chettri told the GDN.
“We are contouring the plans for initial naval exercise which will take place on Saturday while the other area of co-operation under consideration is the possibility of collaboration in the ship building industry.
“The contours of this prospect, however is still to be defined.
“These kinds of visits to this region are important given the prominence of oil and energy security requirements.”
He added that another potential area of co-operation was combating the threat of terrorism.
He was speaking at a press conference on board the INS Deepak, a modern fleet tanker which is docked alongside the INS Tabar, which is one of the front-line combatants of the Indian Navy’s Western Fleet.
Indian Navy Defence Attache for Oman and Bahrain Captain Narayanan Hariharan said the co-operation they have received from Bahraini officials was “unparalleled”.
“The enthusiasm of the Bahraini officials was encouraging and unparalleled and the parameters of passage exercises will be defined in these two days,” he said.
“This, we hope, will be a platform and building block to move forward and regarding co-operation between the two countries the sky is the limit.”
INS Tabar Captain Ashutosh Ridhorkar was also present at yesterday’s Press conference.
The ships are among four vessels deployed to the Gulf for a month-long visit and will head to Oman and Kuwait before returning to India.
Meanwhile, Indian Ambassador Alok Kumar Sinha and the captains of the vessels hosted a reception, onboard INS Tabar last night, which was attended by diplomats and government
officials.
