Bulgaria takes delivery of two second-hand minesweepers bought from the Netherlands
The Bulgarian Navy has taken delivery of two second-hand minesweepers bought from the Netherlands, the Ministry of Defence said.
The vessels have been deployed at the naval station in Varna on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.
The contract for the purchase and delivery, worth about two million euro, was signed in November 2019 and ratified by Bulgaria’s National Assembly on December 6.
“The
two ships will contribute to increasing the capabilities of the Navy
to fulfill the obligations to ensure the safety of navigation in our
maritime space in peacetime, as well as to the successful
implementation of wartime tasks in national and Allied format in Nato
and the EU,” Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry said.
The ships
were manufactured in 1984-1985 and modernised in 2005-2006. They were
used by the Netherlands Navy until 2011.
(Photo: Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry)
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