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Bandar Abadi Shipyard Launched LST AT-8
28 February 2021
LST AT-8 ship launching event at PT Bandar Abadi, Batam (photos: Bandar Abadi)
On Saturday morning, February 27, 2021, at the PT Bandar Abadi shipyard, in Tanjung Uncang, Batam, the Bintuni class LST (tank landing ship) ship was launched, codenamed AT-8. The name AT-8 means the 8th LST-117 meter Class Transport Tank (AT) which was built for the Indonesian Navy.
The AT-8 and AT-9 ships with hull numbers 526 and 527 were built with the 2015-2019 budget.
PT Bandar Abadi Shipyard received a contract from the Ministry of Defense on January 10, 2019 with a period of 30 months, but the new contract was declared effective in September 2019.
When the launching event was carried out, the progress of this ship building entered 17 months, PT Bandar Abadi estimated that the handover of the ship could be carried out in June 2021, this means that it would take 4 more months so that overall shipbuilding took 21 months or 9 months faster than the contract. .
With the launch of the AT-8 ship (KRI 526), in the same place the AT-9 ship (KRI 527) will soon be launched, after which we will wait for the commissioning event as well as the official naming of these 2 ships.
For a shipyard that was founded in 2001, this military ship work is the first project in the field of naval ships. In the future, PT Bandar Abadi hopes to get another naval ship contract from the Indonesian Ministry of Defense.
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