Navantia, a reliable partner for ‘Make in India’ projects
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avantia, the Spanish naval shipbuilder, designs and builds all the naval units for the Spanish Navy and is present in many international tenders with proposals based on well-proven designs. Navantia has developed a business model based in a continuous innovation and flexibility towards the customer, under different kinds of contracts including ToT. Navantia’s experience in ToT programs is quite ample. At present, ToT is successfully being carried-out in three countries, involving local construction of destroyers in
Australia, one LHD in Turkey, and the implementation of an indigenous combat system for corvettes in Saudi Arabia developed by a Joint Venture created between Navantia and SAMI (Saudi Arabia Military Systems). India is a strategic market for Navantia and has a delegation in Delhi. Navantia first entered India more than 15 years ago, when the company participated in the design and transfer of technology to India’s of six Kalvari class submarines being built in MDL (Mumbai), deploying a resident team
in India between 2006 and 2013. Some years later, teaming with Larsen & Toubro Defence, Navantia participated in the LPDs tender, as a result of which the Indian Navy had the opportunity to host the Spanish Navy LHD Juan Carlos I in Mumbai in 2017. Currently, Navantia is participating in the P75(I) project, offering a design based on the Spanish Navy S80 Plus submarine, and proposes to provide the required “Know How” and “Know Why” through a Technology Transfer program to achieve permanent
design, construction and maintenance capabilities in India. Navantia is fully committed with the Make in India philosophy, having gone itself through a similar experience over the last decades, evolving from fabricator only using foreign designs, to a turn key supplier able to go through all design, build, commission and life cycle support phases, positioning Navantia to assist other navies and international shipbuilders with a wide range of Transfer of Technology solutions.
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