Morocco Orders Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel from Spain’s Navantia
The Royal Moroccan Navy has just placed an order for a state-of-the-art patrol vessel with the Spanish company Navantia. It is a combat, defense, reconnaissance, coastal surveillance and high seas patrol ship.
The call for tenders for the construction of the patrol vessel was launched last April by Morocco. Several naval companies have submitted bids. According to the information relayed by Defensa.es. Navantia also presented its offer in August and a team from the company even went to Morocco to negotiate the technical and commercial clauses with the Moroccan authorities. Since last September, the two parties have remained in close collaboration to define a specification sheet in order to meet the technical requirements of the ship.
Through this contract won by Navantia, it is one million hours of work over three and a half years that is thus generated with a workforce of 250 jobs. The offshore patrol vessel under construction for the Royal Moroccan Navy is an evolved generation of the Avante 1400 family, of similar design to the four coastal surveillance ships (BV
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