🇷🇴🤝🇹🇷 Defense minister, Angel Tîlvăr met with his Turkish counterpart, Yaşar Güler and the commander of the Turkish Navy, Admiral Ercüment Tatlıoğlu.
They toured the Istanbul Shipyard Command meaning that the Romanian MoD is likely interested in acquiring some Turkish ships.
The ship industry in Romania took a big hit after the Dutch company, Damen Holding B.V. decided to leave the Mangalia shipyard following a blunder committed by the ministry of the economy, laying off its employees and returning the shipyard into the hands of the Romanian state who struggled to find orders before selling the shipyard to Damen in 2018.
Damen only retains the shipyard at Galați which it continuously expands. It successfully built a number of search & rescue ships for the Romanian Coast Guard and plans to build a ”drone carrier” for the Portuguese Navy. Damen has built at Galați a lot of ships for other navies, like the Pakistani Navy for which it built two corvettes, the Dutch navy for which it built a Combat-Support Ship (CSS) and a Joint Support Ship (JSS).
The Romanian Navy to make up for the lost capacity in the shipbuilding sector has resorted to buying old ships from other countries and refitting them with newer systems, like the two Sandown class minehunters and the two frigates bought from the UK. Last time we've heard from the navy was when it decided it wanted to build two brand new offshore patrol vessels (OPV) and jointly purchase with other EU members a planned new generation of corvettes believed to be ready past 2030.
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They toured the Istanbul Shipyard Command meaning that the Romanian MoD is likely interested in acquiring some Turkish ships.
The ship industry in Romania took a big hit after the Dutch company, Damen Holding B.V. decided to leave the Mangalia shipyard following a blunder committed by the ministry of the economy, laying off its employees and returning the shipyard into the hands of the Romanian state who struggled to find orders before selling the shipyard to Damen in 2018.
Damen only retains the shipyard at Galați which it continuously expands. It successfully built a number of search & rescue ships for the Romanian Coast Guard and plans to build a ”drone carrier” for the Portuguese Navy. Damen has built at Galați a lot of ships for other navies, like the Pakistani Navy for which it built two corvettes, the Dutch navy for which it built a Combat-Support Ship (CSS) and a Joint Support Ship (JSS).
The Romanian Navy to make up for the lost capacity in the shipbuilding sector has resorted to buying old ships from other countries and refitting them with newer systems, like the two Sandown class minehunters and the two frigates bought from the UK. Last time we've heard from the navy was when it decided it wanted to build two brand new offshore patrol vessels (OPV) and jointly purchase with other EU members a planned new generation of corvettes believed to be ready past 2030.
@Wallachian_Gazette