The Philippine Navy (PN) announced that sea trials are now
being conducted for the country's first strategic sealift vessel (SSV) which
was built by Indonesian builder PT PAL (Persero) in its Surabaya
"This week, our SSV is undergoing sea trials and
hopefully, (once she completes these) she will be scheduled for an endurance
run," PN spokesperson Capt. Lued Lincuna said in Filipino.
Lincuna said these testing phases aim to check the
performance of all machineries and equipment of the SSV.
"It is also conducted to check and measure the ship's
general performance and seaworthiness," he added.
The first SSV is expected to arrive in the Philippines
The Philippines
The SSV acquisition project for the PN was initiated upon
the approval of Acquisition Decision Memorandum Number 2012-060 by Defense
Secretary Voltaire Gazmin last Oct. 30, 2013.
The Department of National Defense declared Persero as the
Single Calculated Responsive Bidder with a bidding price of PHP3.87 billion on
Nov. 18, 2014.
The SSVs are programmed to be the PN’s floating command
center carrying out their main purpose as military sealift and transport
vessels and also for humanitarian assistance and disaster response.
The ships are estimated to weigh around 7,300 gross register
tons.
Further, these vessels are critical assets for
civil-military operations due to their capability of transporting large number
of soldiers, logistics, and supplies.
Moreover, each SSV has the capacity to house three
helicopters. The Navy’s Augusta Westland-109s are programmed to be on-board
components of these vessels.
These forthcoming landing platform dock strategic sealift
vessels will improve the transport capability of the PN and boost the defense
capabilities of the country.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=882411
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