Freire Shipyard, BMT team for New Zealand LOSC programme bid

摘要

Spain's Freire Shipyard and UK-based BMT Defence Services have teamed up to bid for New Zealand's Littoral Operations Support Capability (LOSC) programme. The LOSC project is intended to procure a single multipurpose vessel to replace the Royal New Zealand Navy's (RNZN's) current diving support ship HMNZS Manawanui (due to reach the end of its service life in 2018) and the hydrographic ship HMNZS Resolution (decommissioned in April 2012). The LOSC vessel is required to be capable of enabling a wider range of civil aid and/or military response options, to offer improved situational awareness and decision making in littoral regions, and to provide the ability to conduct precise specialist underwater search and recover tasks.