China's Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai has launched the second of four Type 054A/P-class frigates on order for the Pakistan Navy (PN).The 134 m-long ship entered the water in a ceremony held on 29 January that was also attended by Commodore Azfar Humayun, the PN's Chief Naval Overseer in China. The move, which took place on the same day China launched its third Type 075 landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ship from the same dry-dock, comes after the yard launched the first frigate of the class in August 2020.The contract for the first two of these frigates is believed to have been signed in 2017 and a further contract for two more ships was announced in June 2018, when it was also indicated that delivery of all four ships was expected to be completed by 2021/22.Work has also begun on the third and fourth frigates of the class, with a steel-cutting ceremony for both ships in November 2019.
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