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DSA 2018: China offers multirole ship design to Malaysia

17th April 2018 - 03:00 GMT | by Wendell Minnick in Kuala Lumpur

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China is offering Malaysia a co-build option for the Royal Malaysian Navy’s requirement for a Multi-Role Support Ship (MRSS), a design loosely based on a landing helicopter dock (LHD) vessel design by a Chinese shipbuilder. 

A company source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation (BHIC), a Malaysian shipbuilder, was in early talks with the China Shipbuilding & Offshore International Company (CSOC) on the possibility of providing the RMN with such a platform for its '15-to-5' naval modernisation effort.

The co-build MRSS option could be similar to the joint BHIC-CSOC programme for RMN’s four Littoral Mission Ships (LMS), a contract announced in

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Wendell Minnick

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Wendell Minnick (顏文德) was Shephard's Senior Asia Correspondent throughout 2017 and 2018. Wendell is an …

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