Close on two years after winning the role of shipbuilder for the
Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Program, ASC had the opportunity to welcome to Adelaide one of the ships it could be building.
As the Spanish-designed F100 docked at Outer Harbor, South Australia, this morning, it was greeted by a team of ASC designers and engineers eager to see the ship in local waters.
The visit follows extensive evaluation activities undertaken by ASC, along with its
AWD Alliance partners, in
Navantia’s shipyard at Ferrol, Spain.
Navantia’s F100 ‘Existing’ option is in competition with US-firm
Gibbs & Cox’ ‘Evolved’ option for selection as Australia’s AWD design, to be later constructed by ASC at its Osborne, South Australia, facility.
According to
John Gallacher, Chief Executive Officer of ASC Shipbuilding, viewing the F100 gives one an appreciation of its awesome capability and the magnitude of the construction task at hand.
“We welcome the visiting F100, and congratulate the Spanish Armada on circumnavigating the globe for the first time in 142 years,” said Mr Gallacher.
“The visit has given our personnel, who haven’t visited Navantia’s Spanish shipyard, a valuable opportunity to truly appreciate the size, scope and complexity of the mammoth shipbuilding task we have ahead.”
Over 50 ASC personnel, who will be involved in the construction of Australia’s AWDs, will be touring the visiting F100 while it’s docked in Adelaide.
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