CROQ 1270 patrol boats, donated by the Lagos State Government and crewed by the Nigerian Navy
NIGERIAN COMPASS
JUNE 28, 2012
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In furtherance of Federal Government’s resolve to tackle security challenges, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved the purchase of six fast moving security boats by the Ministry of Transport.
According to the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, who briefed newsmen after the FEC meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, the procurement became compelling because of emerging security challenges in the country.
Sequel to a memo from the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, the Council approved contract for the design and construction of fast moving security patrol boats, in line with the new international guidelines and security regime required for enhanced comfort to shipping.
“The Council, in approving the procurement of the contract for 2 No. 17 Manta Mk ASD, considered the importance of the boat, “which enhance security at the Lagos pilotage district”.
The contract was awarded in favour of Messrs Kobus Naval Design (Nigeria) Ltd in the sum of $9,429,143.05 inclusive of all taxes with 12 months completion period.
Maku, who was flanked by Umar, said the Council equally approved award of contract for 1 No. 32M Manta MK ASD in favour of Messrs OCEA of France in association with Anglestone Ltd in the sum of $10,451,000.30 with 12 months completion period.
Also, the Council approved the procurement of 3 No. Fast Moving Security Boats in favour of Messrs Oil Response Ltd, in the sum of N233,625,000.00 to be supplied within six months.
This is what weve been clamouring for, this is good news. Please do more.
These are useful COASTAL patrol acquisitions. We commend the FG. Let us keep the Manta Mk.II as the bottomline of our acquisitions. Ideally, 24m-32m OCEA and Shaldag Fast Patrol Craft should be the median.
Perhaps we could get NIMASA to pay for one upgunned Damen 8313 83 metre 1,500+tonne oceangoing Research/Patrol Vessel valued at $20m to complement these acquisitions. Little by little..
With the FY 2012 order for six 17 Manta Mk.II ASD Littoral Interceptors, we shall have a total of 21 Manta Mk.IIs in the Nigerian Navy fleet by year’s end. Add to that these two units officially owned by the Nigerian Ports Authority but which would practically be in Nigerian Navy cusody and we have raised the tally to 23 Manta Interceptors. Good progress rebuilding our fleet of 17-38m coastal patrol platforms.
6 patrol craft being refurbished by TP Marine in Holland
* three 24m OCEA patrol craft completed and awaiting delivery from France
* three Shaldag FPCs coming, to add to two units in service
* one Made-in-Nigeria 31m SDB commissioned, another being constructed.
* two 38m Sea Eagle Offshore Patrol Craft commissioned in 2009
* eight 31-35m German and British coastal patrol craft at various stages of operability still recoverable – NNS Makurdi and NNS Yola in service.
Moving on, this same Kobus Naval Design of South Africa were awarded a $23m contract for the supply of two 24+metre patrol craft for the Nigeria Customs Service, which in conjunction with a boatbuilding subsidiary of John Holt(Nig)PLC have successfully put 55 of the 60 Customs Service patrol boats back to sea. The Customs also had an $11m contract for a surveillance plane approved a week later.
The Marine Police also have many dozens of patrol boats at their disposal.
In a related development, 350-400 units of RBS Defender, China boats, K38 combat catamarans, RHIBs, Jedi, NC27 Tactical Insertion Craft, Stingray, Passport 19, Mordant Marine, Majesty 50 river gunboats and landing craft, among an assortment of other boat types given as donations by state govts. and corporate entities as tokens of operational support, all in the 7-16m category have been acquired for the Navy and Army Amphibious Forces.
Sustain the acquisitions,FG. Keep an eye on oceangoing OPVs.Governance=Security
Here is what we are looking forward to.
17m Manta Mk.II ASD Littoral Interceptor
32m OCEA FPB 98 Mk.I PATROL CRAFT
Grudgingly I say well done to the F.G. to these acquisitions short term these are good long term
We are in desperate need of :
* 6 OPV now ( yes i know we signed the contract for TWO- it is not enough
* 2 LST
* The refurbrishment of the ARADU let be more specific change the engines so they are more fuel efficient and more powerful, renovate the entire computer system on board so this ship is capable of handling multiple attack tasks SIMULTANEOUSLY , UPGRADE her ANTI SHIP MISSILES ,and also upgrade her system to anti submarine attack ship
F.G. This is the cost of not acquiring the absalom you cannot penny pinch your way out of this nor are we on this blog going to allow it.
AGAIN CONGRATS SHORT TERM long term this is as the chinese say a journey of a thousand miles STARTS WITH ONE STEP.
The 95m 1800ton Chinese stealth OPVs for which contracts were signed in April 2012 are a carried over transaction from FY2011. Remember that last December, we told you that the CNS said the talks concerning Portuguese OPVs fell through and that they were looking to China and Korea for new options. The result is the contract for Chinese-built stealth OPVs which has now been signed.
For FY 2012 acquisitions, the NN are slated to sign a contract for two 110m 2000 ton OPVs during Q4 2012.
http://beegeagle.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/fy-2012-nigerian-naval-acquisitions-specifications-of-the-opvs/
So we have practically netted four oceangoing OPVs. What we need to do now is to sign contracts for three Knud Rasmussen OPVs($150m), three decomm. Pohang corvettes($90m) and three multipurpose 83 metre Damen 8313 Oceanic Research and Patrol Vessels($60m).
Manta is the generic name for for the smaller PC.
Most certaainly. The MANTA Mk.II/Mk.III ASD is a product of the Suncraft Group. I believe that the reference vis-a-vis KND shows that they probably found someone to build it a cheaper price – drawing extensively from the Manta design.
For one, the implied unit cost of $4.9+m is a far cry from the quoted prices of $8.808m and $9.1m unit prices quoted for the purchases approved by the FEC in November 2009 and October 2010 for Manta Mk.II(1 unit)/Mk.III(4 units)ASD Littoral Interceptors approved at the aforementioned times