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Procurement programmes
One of the largest patrol vessel procurement programmes
undertaken during the last five years has been initiated by clean
Venezuela. In April 2005 the Venezuelan government signed
a contract worth US$2.2 billion with Spanish shipbuilder,
Navantia, for the procurement of eight patrol ships under
two concurrent programmes. In the first project, four ships
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displacing 2457tonnes are being built under the Patrullero
Oceánico para la Vigilancia de la Zona Económica Exclusiva
(POVZEE) programme to provide the Venezuelan Navy with
ships for offshore patrolling and the second project, known
as the Buque de Vigilancia de Litoral (BVL) programme, will classified
provide ships for coastal patrolling.
Construction of the first POVZEE offshore patrol vessel
(OPV) started in September 2008 and all four ships are
scheduled to be delivered to the Venezuelan Navy by July
2011. The keel for the fourth and final POVZEE OPV for
Venezuela was laid down on 17 February 2010. Equipped
with a 76mm gun, helicopter flight deck and hangar, RIBs,
and powerful sensors provided by Thales, the ships are
designed for patrolling the Venezuelan EEZ and conducting
maritime interdiction, counter-piracy, search and rescue
and humanitarian relief missions. The BVL coastal patrol
vessels displace slightly less at 1524tonnes with the first three
being built at Navantia, but the fourth vessel has started
construction at Dianca Shipyards in Venezuela. The first
Venezuelan BVL is being commissioned in early March 2010.
Like the POVZEE OPVs the BVLs are also scheduled to be
delivered by July 2011.
Navantia is also building four 2540tonnes patrol ships for
the Spanish Navy, known as the Buque de Acción Maritima
(BAM) OPVs. The shipbuilder was awarded a US$1.5 billion
contract in May 2006 to build four OPVs to replace older
patrol vessels in the Spanish Navy. Construction of the
BAM vessels started in April 2009 and the quartet are to be
delivered by late 2011. The ships have similar equipment to
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the Venezuelan POVZEE OPVs with a 76mm gun, flight
gensets are ready to go:
deck and capability to launch RIBs, but will be fitted with the
Fuel in – electrical power out!
sophisticated SCOMBA combat management system and
additional electronic warfare systems from Indra.
For economy and environment in harmony, the engines
Next door on the Iberian Peninsula, the Portuguese Navy is
also updating its ageing fleet of patrol ships. Local shipbuilder,
are low on both NOx emissions and fuel consumption.
Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo (ENVC), was awarded
a US$136 million contract in 2005 for five smaller 650tonnes
Volvo Penta. Leaders in high speed marine gensets.
Lancha de Fiscalização Costeira (LFC) coastal patrol craft and
in October 2002 it was awarded contract for the construction
of two 1625tonnes Navio Patrulha Oceânico (NPO) OPVs.
VOLVO PENTA MARINE GENSETS.
A further two pollution control variants of the NPO ships are
to be built with a total of eight NPO and eight LFC vessels
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE
expected by 2019. ENVC has chosen to build the ships with VOLVO PENTA GREEN COMMITMENT.
design and manufacturing assistance from Dutch shipbuilder
Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding.
Fleet regeneration
In South America, Brazil has also started to regenerate
it naval forces in an ambitious programme that seeks
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