German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) is hoping to capitalise on its previous success with the SA Navy to gain the advantage in bidding for the sea service’s upcoming requirement for a strategic support ship and a new class of offshore patrol vessels (MM OPV).

TKMS have in the last decade supplied SA with four state-of-the-art MEKO A200SAN frigates and three sophisticated Type 209 littoral submarines. Bernd Wölfer, the company’s vice president for sales says the commonality between the frigates and their offering for the strategic support ship (Project Millennium) and the MM OPV (Project Biro) could be persuasive.

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