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Monday, September 08, 2014

Fincantieri delivers new amphibious vessel for the Algerian Navy

Kalaat Beni-Abbes BDSLFincantieri has delivered new amphibious vessel "Kalaat Beni-Abbes" for the Algerian Navy, the company said in its press release.

The delivery ceremony was held today at the Muggiano shipyard (in La Spezia) for the "Kalaat Beni-Abbes" (from the name of a place in the north of the country, which in Arabic means fort of the sons of Abbes), a vessel commissioned in 2011 by the Ministry of Defence of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria from Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, a company controlled by Fincantieri in which Selex ES also holds an interest, to serve as the national Navy's new flagship.

The "Kalaat Beni-Abbes" (which belongs to the BDSL class - Bâtiment de Débarquement et de Soutien Logistique) is a landing platform dock (LPD) ship, developed as a technological enhancement of the Italian "San Giusto" amphibious class vessel and retaining and perfecting some of the latter’s most significant features.

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