TAIPEH: Officials from Taiwan's coastguard witnessed the launching of the first of 12 locally designed and built 600-ton class catamaran patrol boats and took delivery of three 35-ton cutters on Monday(April 27) in a ceremony held in the southern port of Kaohsiung.
A scaled-down launching ceremony for the Anping 600-ton patrol ship took place at the Jong Shyn Shipbuilding Company (JSSC) docks and was attended by Vice Premier Chen Chi-mai, Ocean Affairs Committee chairman Lee Chung-wei, JSSC chairman Han Pi-hsiang and coastguard officials.
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