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Navantia's engineering is focused on the design of these units, similar to the ships 'Galicia' and 'Castilla' of the Spanish Navy
The Puerto Real shipyard claims this work while waiting for the Government of Spain to approve the BAM and the ferries
25/02/2020
The contract for the five Saudi corvettes being built at the San Fernando shipyard may have an extension or, rather, an extension. The Government of Riyadh is interested in the purchase of two amphibious ships for the transport of troops and with the capacity to deploy armored vehicles, helicopters and landing craft. The new initiative of the Saudi Navy was announced in a very timid way last spring, but what was a wish has now become a reality that is beginning to take shape.
Saudi authorities expect to receive a firm offer on this new naval project shortly. LA VOZ has learned that the engineering section of Navantia has been working overtime for months in the design and development of two amphibious ships that adapt to customer needs. Thus, Navantia engineers have taken as reference the two amphibious ships (LPD) of the Spanish Navy and, on them, are making the modifications. These are the ‘Galicia’ and ‘Castilla’ ships, both based in Rota, and built between 1995 and 1998 in the Ferrol shipyard by the former Izar. These are two ships with a hangar for four helicopters and the possibility of transporting up to 600 troops, in addition to battle tanks. They also have a hospital inside.
The Ambassador of Arabia in Spain, His Highness Prince Mansour Bin Khalid Al Farhan Al-Saud, visited last week the island plant to check the development of the corvettes work and also visited the Puerto Real shipyard, where he checked 'in situ 'the potential of its cranes and the dock for a work like that of amphibious ships.
It should be remembered that Navantia plans to deliver to Arabia in early 2022 the last of the five corvettes that it builds in the island factory and it is not unreasonable, therefore, that the naval agreement between Spain and Arabia, signed in July 2018, continues with a new order.
However, this new contract has to go through the Council of Ministers of the new Government. Its approval seems complicated if we take into account that the PSOE governs in coalition with Podemos, which has already had some problems with the corvettes' contract.
The signing of this military contract would be key to the future of Navantia, since, at the moment, it has nothing tied in the medium term in the field of defense. The company lost between 2018 and 2019 two important military contests with Australia and Canada due to the effects of Brexit.
The governments of Australia and Canada closed ranks in favor of British companies despite the fact that Navantia was the favorite for the construction of nine frigates for the Australian Navy and fifteen frigates for the Canadian Navy., The British BAE Systems took the cat to the water and took the two mega contracts from the Spanish company. This setback forced the Navantia management to accelerate the diversification of its naval business and look even more strongly at the offshore alternative that it had started with Iberdrola.
This shift has allowed him contracts such as the one signed with the Norwegian Equinor Energy for the construction at the Puerto Real plant of an electrical substation that will serve the Johan Severdrup oil complex in the North Sea.
Furthermore, this same shipyard builds the 20 ‘upper’ jackets for the Moray Firth Offshore East wind farm, awarded by the Belgian contractor Smulders. The third wind contract that is developed in the Puerto Rican plant is the construction of floating jackets. This contract is carried out at the Galician shipyard in Fene (A Coruña). The five units are destined for the Kinkardine field, located 15 kilometers from Aberdeen (United Kingdom), but Navantia diverted the work of one of them to Puerto Real to guarantee delivery times.
Afloat thanks to offshore
Navantia has continued to bet on offshore and the last contract was signed last August with Iberdrola The Fene shipyard and the Asturian company Windar Renovables will manufacture the 62 jackets - large steel structures that support the wind turbines at sea - for the Saint Park Brieuc, which will build Iberdrola in French Brittany. In Puerto Real it is expected that Iberdrola will shortly award the work for the substation that will carry this wind-offshore complex.
Therefore, the possibility that now opens with Arabia is vital to continue with the shipbuilding. In this case it is not an international contest. Arabia finger-assigns its contracts based on its interests.
It should be remembered that the only shipbuilding expectations that Navantia has left up its sleeve depend on the Spanish Government and its Ministry of Defense. The company included in 2018 in its industrial plan three naval projects for the Spanish Navy that have not yet seen the light due to lack of budget. It is the construction of the seventh BAM, destined to logistical support of submarines, and the contract for the launch of two ferries for military transport. These three units are waiting for the Spanish government to approve their budgets and include them in the Defense items.
Ferrol or Puerto Real?
The second issue that opens the possible agreement with Arabia is the construction site of the two amphibious ships. Ferrol or Puerto Real? The Galician shipyard eagerly awaits the sheet metal cutting of the first of the five frigates of the F-110 series, the most modern and versatile on the market, which has been commissioned by the Spanish Navy and which has the blessing of Defense. This project continues in the engineering offices awaiting its phase of entry to workshops.
On the other hand, there is the Puerto Real shipyard, which continues to float offshore orders but which, despite everything, are small projects for a shipyard of this category.
The rivalry between shipyards in the north with those in the south is well known in terms of workload. The Galician naval had already made a move in 2019 when the news of the two Arab ships came out and said that they must be built in Ferrol to cover the gap in the dock until the project for the Spanish frigates is launched.
However, in the Bay of Cádiz they do not want to miss this opportunity and they have already positioned themselves for the possible contract of Arabia to be executed in the Puerto Real shipyard.
THE VOICE has learned that the execution of the two amphibious vessels now demanded by Arabia would be imminent. Arabia and Spain, as a result of the corvettes contract, formed a joint company for the development of defense projects. In this way SAMI (Saudi Arabian Military Industries) was born. SAMI-Arabia owns 51%, while Navantia accounts for the remaining 49%.
Navantia signed in July 2018 with Saudi Arabia a contract for the construction of five corvettes, an operation that reaches 1.8 billion euros and represents the largest in the history of public shipyards with a foreign client. The work started in January 2019.
Currently, Spain has in service the two Galicia-class assault ships: one baptized with the same name and the other as 'Castilla'. They were designed to carry an infantry battalion of 400 soldiers, plus 33 battle tanks or 170 armored vehicles. But in the end they have also been assigned to humanitarian missions: from the floods of Hurricane Mitch to the cleaning of the contamination caused by the Prestige.
In Ferrol there is a clamor to obtain a bridge contract before the F-110 and now it is the Bay of Cádiz that is requesting this work. However, the unions from Cádiz and the business district of the Bay are in favor of a balanced distribution of the workload in the centers of Navantia.
https://www.lavozdigital.es/cadiz/p...tas-buques-anfibios-202002201800_noticia.html
The Puerto Real shipyard claims this work while waiting for the Government of Spain to approve the BAM and the ferries
25/02/2020
The contract for the five Saudi corvettes being built at the San Fernando shipyard may have an extension or, rather, an extension. The Government of Riyadh is interested in the purchase of two amphibious ships for the transport of troops and with the capacity to deploy armored vehicles, helicopters and landing craft. The new initiative of the Saudi Navy was announced in a very timid way last spring, but what was a wish has now become a reality that is beginning to take shape.
Saudi authorities expect to receive a firm offer on this new naval project shortly. LA VOZ has learned that the engineering section of Navantia has been working overtime for months in the design and development of two amphibious ships that adapt to customer needs. Thus, Navantia engineers have taken as reference the two amphibious ships (LPD) of the Spanish Navy and, on them, are making the modifications. These are the ‘Galicia’ and ‘Castilla’ ships, both based in Rota, and built between 1995 and 1998 in the Ferrol shipyard by the former Izar. These are two ships with a hangar for four helicopters and the possibility of transporting up to 600 troops, in addition to battle tanks. They also have a hospital inside.
The Ambassador of Arabia in Spain, His Highness Prince Mansour Bin Khalid Al Farhan Al-Saud, visited last week the island plant to check the development of the corvettes work and also visited the Puerto Real shipyard, where he checked 'in situ 'the potential of its cranes and the dock for a work like that of amphibious ships.
It should be remembered that Navantia plans to deliver to Arabia in early 2022 the last of the five corvettes that it builds in the island factory and it is not unreasonable, therefore, that the naval agreement between Spain and Arabia, signed in July 2018, continues with a new order.
However, this new contract has to go through the Council of Ministers of the new Government. Its approval seems complicated if we take into account that the PSOE governs in coalition with Podemos, which has already had some problems with the corvettes' contract.
The signing of this military contract would be key to the future of Navantia, since, at the moment, it has nothing tied in the medium term in the field of defense. The company lost between 2018 and 2019 two important military contests with Australia and Canada due to the effects of Brexit.
The governments of Australia and Canada closed ranks in favor of British companies despite the fact that Navantia was the favorite for the construction of nine frigates for the Australian Navy and fifteen frigates for the Canadian Navy., The British BAE Systems took the cat to the water and took the two mega contracts from the Spanish company. This setback forced the Navantia management to accelerate the diversification of its naval business and look even more strongly at the offshore alternative that it had started with Iberdrola.
This shift has allowed him contracts such as the one signed with the Norwegian Equinor Energy for the construction at the Puerto Real plant of an electrical substation that will serve the Johan Severdrup oil complex in the North Sea.
Furthermore, this same shipyard builds the 20 ‘upper’ jackets for the Moray Firth Offshore East wind farm, awarded by the Belgian contractor Smulders. The third wind contract that is developed in the Puerto Rican plant is the construction of floating jackets. This contract is carried out at the Galician shipyard in Fene (A Coruña). The five units are destined for the Kinkardine field, located 15 kilometers from Aberdeen (United Kingdom), but Navantia diverted the work of one of them to Puerto Real to guarantee delivery times.
Afloat thanks to offshore
Navantia has continued to bet on offshore and the last contract was signed last August with Iberdrola The Fene shipyard and the Asturian company Windar Renovables will manufacture the 62 jackets - large steel structures that support the wind turbines at sea - for the Saint Park Brieuc, which will build Iberdrola in French Brittany. In Puerto Real it is expected that Iberdrola will shortly award the work for the substation that will carry this wind-offshore complex.
Therefore, the possibility that now opens with Arabia is vital to continue with the shipbuilding. In this case it is not an international contest. Arabia finger-assigns its contracts based on its interests.
It should be remembered that the only shipbuilding expectations that Navantia has left up its sleeve depend on the Spanish Government and its Ministry of Defense. The company included in 2018 in its industrial plan three naval projects for the Spanish Navy that have not yet seen the light due to lack of budget. It is the construction of the seventh BAM, destined to logistical support of submarines, and the contract for the launch of two ferries for military transport. These three units are waiting for the Spanish government to approve their budgets and include them in the Defense items.
Ferrol or Puerto Real?
The second issue that opens the possible agreement with Arabia is the construction site of the two amphibious ships. Ferrol or Puerto Real? The Galician shipyard eagerly awaits the sheet metal cutting of the first of the five frigates of the F-110 series, the most modern and versatile on the market, which has been commissioned by the Spanish Navy and which has the blessing of Defense. This project continues in the engineering offices awaiting its phase of entry to workshops.
On the other hand, there is the Puerto Real shipyard, which continues to float offshore orders but which, despite everything, are small projects for a shipyard of this category.
The rivalry between shipyards in the north with those in the south is well known in terms of workload. The Galician naval had already made a move in 2019 when the news of the two Arab ships came out and said that they must be built in Ferrol to cover the gap in the dock until the project for the Spanish frigates is launched.
However, in the Bay of Cádiz they do not want to miss this opportunity and they have already positioned themselves for the possible contract of Arabia to be executed in the Puerto Real shipyard.
THE VOICE has learned that the execution of the two amphibious vessels now demanded by Arabia would be imminent. Arabia and Spain, as a result of the corvettes contract, formed a joint company for the development of defense projects. In this way SAMI (Saudi Arabian Military Industries) was born. SAMI-Arabia owns 51%, while Navantia accounts for the remaining 49%.
Navantia signed in July 2018 with Saudi Arabia a contract for the construction of five corvettes, an operation that reaches 1.8 billion euros and represents the largest in the history of public shipyards with a foreign client. The work started in January 2019.
Currently, Spain has in service the two Galicia-class assault ships: one baptized with the same name and the other as 'Castilla'. They were designed to carry an infantry battalion of 400 soldiers, plus 33 battle tanks or 170 armored vehicles. But in the end they have also been assigned to humanitarian missions: from the floods of Hurricane Mitch to the cleaning of the contamination caused by the Prestige.
In Ferrol there is a clamor to obtain a bridge contract before the F-110 and now it is the Bay of Cádiz that is requesting this work. However, the unions from Cádiz and the business district of the Bay are in favor of a balanced distribution of the workload in the centers of Navantia.
https://www.lavozdigital.es/cadiz/p...tas-buques-anfibios-202002201800_noticia.html
