ARES Shipyard to build 122 fast patrol boats for Coast Guard

MDN İstanbul

ARES Shipyard has announced that it has commenced the “largest serial production project in shipbuilding” where it will build 122 fast patrol boats programme for the Trukish Coast Guard.

In a press statement, ARES stated that the contract had already started and the project is currently close to the end of design validation, with model tests in the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase being completed successfully.The serial production is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2020.

One boat every week Utku Alanc, CEO of ARES Shipyard, said: “The project represents the largest volume of serial production in Turkey’s shipbuilding history and it will certainly go down as a significant achievement on the world’s shipbuilding records. The project is planned to last for five years and it will involve construction and delivery of 122-ARES 35 FPB boats to meet the needs of the Turkish Coast Guard. At the same time, the contract allows for additional vessels which may see us end up building a number of boats twice the current figure. We will deliver six boats every two months according to our production schedule. As such, one boat will be ready to launch every week. This is something only ARES can achieve.”

ARES 35 FPB, the first of which will be commissioned in 2020, will serve in tasks such as combatting irregular migration, search and rescue operations, anti-human trafficking and maritime security missions. To be built according to the Turkish Lloyd’s norms and rules, the boats will carry out operations across all coastal areas of Turkey, from Artvin province in the northeast of Black Sea to Hatay in the southeast of the Mediterranean.

About ARES 35 FPB
ARES 35 FPB will be manufactured using vacuum infusion technology from carbonrein
forced advanced composites. The outline technical characteristics of the boats are as follows:

• Overall Length: 12 metres

• Width: 3.75 metres

• Draft: 0.80 metres

• Main Propulsion System: 2 x Inboard Diesel Engines and Water Jets

• Maximum Speed: 35 knots • Range: 160 nautical miles

About ARES Shipyard Having built hundreds of vessels of various sizes, ARES Shipyard lists meeting all needs of navies, governmental and private institutions among its top priorities with its dynamic, young and ambitious engineering team; customer-focused product solutions and distinguished ILS department dedicated to life cycle support of its products and end users.

ARES has five production facilities with a total enclosed area of 40.000 m2 in Antalya Free Zone, capable of building steel, aluminum and advanced composite vessels up to 90m in length. While it stands ready and able to develop new vessels along with its key partners, the shipyard classifies its offerings into the categories of patrol boats, naval craft, utility and support vessels, passenger and pleasure craft.

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