According
to BSS, the national news agency of Bangladesh, the local government
will procure four ex-Italian Navy Minerva class vessels for Bangladesh
Coast Guard to gear up its activities in the coastal areas. The Cabinet
Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) today gave nod to the procurement
proposal of the vessels. |
Finance
Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith chaired the meeting held at the cabinet
division.
"The vessels will be procured from the Italian Navy under government-to-government
level agreement," Mustafizur Rahman, Joint Secretary of Cabinet
Division, told reporters after the meeting.
Minerva class corvettes were built in two series of four units in the
1980s and 1990s by Italian shipyard Fincantieri. |
