Vietnam to deliver patrol boats to African customers

Jeremy Binnie, London – Jane’s Defence Weekly

07 January 2020
Eight Manta-type boats are seen lined up at the Hong Ha Shipbuilding Company facility in Haiphong in a still from footage released by Tu?i Tr?. Two more can be seen in the background. Source: Tuổi Trẻ

African customers have ordered patrol boats that have been built by Vietnamese shipyards, the country’s Tuổi Trẻ newspaper reported on 2 January.

The story and accompanying video focused on the delivery of 50 patrol boats that had been ordered by an unidentified billionaire and showed several small craft being loaded onto a cargo ship for delivery to Port Harcourt in Nigeria.

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