Spanish Shipbuilder Navantia to Deliver Advanced Patrol Vessel to Moroccan Navy

Contacts between Navantia and the Moroccan National Defense Administration are ongoing to adapt all the technical specifications of the ship to the requirements of the FAR and the Royal Moroccan Navy and to comply with the roadmap agreed upon during the negotiations, reports Diario de Cádiz. Information not yet confirmed by the two parties.

Morocco had launched a call for tenders in April 2020 for the construction of a coastal surveillance ship (BVL), an Avante 1800 class patrol boat. A contract won by the Spanish Navantia for a total cost of 130 million euros. The construction of the patrol boat will have to start at the beginning of 2022 and requires one million hours of work over three and a half years. It will have to generate a workforce of 250 jobs.

Combat, defense, detection, coastal surveillance and high-seas patrol ship, BVL is adapted to maritime security and could also be used in the fight against irregular immigration.