Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 08/2024
Partnership accelerates landing craft development
DNV and BMT Partners have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to accelerate the development of an Australian version of a Landing Craft – Heavy (LC-H) version of BMT’s Caimen® Large landing craft for the Australian Army. The collaboration will ensure that the asset’s design is tailored to the Army’s requirements, technical risks are identified and managed, and potential delays are avoided by having early classification society engagement. The partners aim to enhance the ‘design maturing’ of the Australian variant of the Caimen Large craft, ensuring that BMT can supply the asset with effective multi-mission amphibious capabilities to the Australian Defence Force....