On 31 March, the delivery of the first SWATH-type patrol boat was celebrated by Abeking & Rasmussen. High ranking Latvian and German officials, led by the Latvian DefMin Dr. Artis Pabriks and the German Parliamentary State Secretary of Defence, Christian Schmidt, participated in the delivery ceremony at Abeking & Rasmussen shipyard in Lem-werder / Germany. Commissioning into the Latvian Navy will take place on 18 April in Riga/ Latvia. The contract was signed in September 2008 in partnership with Riga Shipyard, who is currently building a further vessel in Latvia.
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