Tag: Tandanor

• Saturday, March 26th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Argentine shipyard Tandanor to handle maintenance of French-built OPVs

  

  Argentina's Navy top brass have met with executives from France's Naval Group and the local shipyard Tandanor to move on with the training of technicians for the maintenance of the four ocean patrol vessels (OPVs) purchased in the last year.

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Argentina to develop new polar ship with Finnish consultants

  

  The Government of Argentina Wednesday approved the allocation of funds to the Tandanor state shipyard to advance in cooperation with Finnish consultants Aker Arctic in the design and construction of a new polar ship to join the icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar in delivering supplies to the thirteen bases in Antarctica.

• Thursday, August 11th 2016 - 06:39 UTC

  After nine years “Almirante Irizar” is ready for sea tests but faces a “muddy” problem

  

  Argentina's Antarctic exploration flagship icebreaker “Almirante Irizar” is ready for the sea tests after nine years under repairs in the government's defense shipyard and hundreds of millions of dollars, but an unexpected last minute “muddy” impediment has surfaced.

• Wednesday, May 28th 2014 - 22:12 UTC

  Seven years and 650 million dollars later, Argentine icebreaker Irizar still under repairs

  

  The Argentine government is putting pressure on contractors so that the Navy's flagship icebreaker Almirante Irizar, partially destroyed by fire in 2007, can begin sea trials later this year. However over-costs and mismanagement of the funds invested, estimated at over 650 million dollars, could have purchased a new vessel of three second hand according to critics in Congress.