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denies losing deal for Indonesian Navy submarines |
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Turkish
procurement officials have denied a South Korean claim that the Korean
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine has defeated a joint bid by Germany and
Turkey to sell submarines to the Indonesian Navy.
‘’We are constantly in touch with Indonesian authorities.
Together with Germany, we will soon submit an offer outlining our final
offer with very favorable conditions. Indonesia is waiting for that,’’
a procurement official told the Hürriyet Daily News recently on
condition of anonymity.
‘’In
addition, Germany’s Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft [HDW] is our
full partner and is the builder of the HDW-class 209 submarines that
Indonesia wants to buy. We don’t know how the South Koreans may
overcome this license problem, because HDW is working with us,’’
the official said. ‘’For us, the competition is continuing.’’
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Turkish Navy
Submarine Type 209/1400 (Preveze class)
(picture: Denizaltici)
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Daewoo Shipbuilding
& Engineering said earlier this month that it aimed to seal a $1.1
billion agreement with the Indonesian government by November to build
three submarines. The South Korean shipbuilder said in a statement that
this would mark the first exports of submarines from the country.
“We have launched talks to sign a submarine contract with Indonesia’s
Defense Ministry,’’ Daewoo said in a statement.
A team of Turkish and German companies and Turkey’s procurement
office are also jointly seeking a contract to sell two HDW-class 209 diesel
submarines to Indonesia worth about $1 billion in an offer with sweeteners
against the South Korean rivals.
French and Russian companies dropped out of the bidding for the Indonesian
Nay deal earlier, allowing South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding &
Marine to emerge as the leading candidate. Daewoo was expected to bid
together with HDW, but it later decided to bid on its own.
Facing the threat of being left out of the deal, HDW, a subsidiary of
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, approached the Undersecretariat for Defense
Industries (SSM), Turkey’s defense procurement agency.
Together with Turkey, HDW also is manufacturing six modern U-214 diesel
submarines for the Turkish Navy. In partnership with HDW, Turkey earlier
built 14 U-209 submarines, which Indonesia now wants to buy.
Source: Hürriyet Daily News |
