ADSB starts work on Bahrain vessels

Abu Dhabi: Ship Building (ADSB) has begun work on the first of two steel landing craft being built for the Royal Bahrain Naval Forces.

The contract for the 42-metre vessels was won against stiff competition from international shipyards, further confirming ADSB's position as the region's leading provider of support services to GCC navies.

It is ADSB's first new building contract for Bahrain and also includes two 16-metre Seakeeper landing craft built with composite materials.

A traditional keel-laying ceremony was held at ADSB's shipyard at Mussafah, Abu Dhabi, to mark the start of work, attended by Staff Colonel Hassan Ahmad Mohammad, Head of the Planning Department, Royal Bahrain Naval Force, who praised the standard of construction at ADSB.