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Monday, November 30, 2009

Indonesian Navy Receives New $30m Warship

Makassar classThe Indonesian Navy took command of a new vessel, the KRI Banjarmasin-592 warship manufactured by PT PAL, on Saturday.

State-owned shipbuilder PT PAL symbolically handed over the ship to the Defense Ministry, which it in turn later passed it on to the Indonesian Navy at a military ceremony in Surabaya, East Java.

The KRI Banjarmasin, a Landing Platform Dock (LPD) type vessel used to transport and land troops, is the first of two 125-meter LPD’s manufactured by PT PAL.

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