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The Philippine Navy’s (PN) second Strategic Sealift Vessel (SSV) is now more than 60 percent complete.
“Second SSV completion is more than 60 percent. Ten PN crew are supervising [the works],” Navy spokesperson Captain Lued Lincuna said in a message to the Philippine News Agency Wednesday.
Steel-cutting for the second SSV formally took place on June 6 last year at PT PAL’s (Persero) Surabaya shipyard in Indonesia. The said SSV is scheduled for delivery May 2017.
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