Dutch courage: Damen Schelde sets new headings at home and abroad

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Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding's Vlissingen yard in the south of the Netherlands may be quiet in terms of production, but its newly refurbished headquarters has been a hive of activity over recent months. "Our product and proposal team has been working very hard to meet major bid deadlines for the Romanian corvette programme and the Belgian/ Netherlands next-generation mine countermeasures [MCM] capability," Richard Keulen, the company's director naval sales support,told Jane's. "That has required an exceptional effort to get technical and commercial documentation finalised for submission at the beginning of October.