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French company Piriou launches OPV Offshore Patrol Vessel ARA Piedrabuena for Argentinian Navy

According to a press release published on October 1, 2020, after the arrival of the A.R.A. Bouchard in Argentina in February 2020, the second OPV for the Argentinian Navy named ARA Piedrabuena has been launched this Thursday 1st of October, 2020, in Piriou’s shipyards in Concarneau, France. This launching comes ahead of schedule – 2 months before the contractual deadline – despite the adverse sanitary context. The two upcoming ships are also built by Kership (Joint venture between Naval Group and Piriou) in Lanester.

The second of the four Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPVs) ordered for the Argentine Navy (Armada de la República Argentina) has been launched at Piriou’s Shipyards in Concarneau (Brittany, France).
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After the arrival of the A.R.A. Bouchard in Argentina on February 2020, the second OPV has been launched this Thursday 1stof October, 2020,in Piriou’s shipyards in Concarneau. This launching comes ahead of schedule – 2 months before the contractual deadline – despite the adverse sanitary context. The two upcoming ships are also built by Kership (joint venture between Naval Group and Piriou) in Lanester.

Signed on June 22nd, 2018 in Buenos Aires, the contract for the delivery of four multi-mission ocean patrol vessels for the Argentinian Navy came into force on February 13th, 2019.

This contract covers the delivery of L’Adroit–a vessel commissioned at the end of 2011 and operated by the French Navy before being modernized to become the A.R.A. Bouchard– as well as the construction of 3 new units with an enhanced design (known as OPV 87). The three new vessels are specially adapted to navigation in iced waters of the Southern Ocean, through a reinforcement of their structure.