Greece’s Salamis Shipyards Deliver Blocks for France’s Third FDI

On August 18, 2025, Salamis Shipyards provided a brand-new collection of pre-outfitted areas for a 3rd FDI frigate, this time around for the French Navy’s 2nd vessel, Amiral Castex

Salamis Shipyards News Release (translation from Greek)

On August 18, 2025, the Salamis Shipyards effectively finished and provided a brand-new collection of pre-outfitted areas (blocks) of the 3rd (and 6th in the manufacturing collection) French Navy protection and treatment frigate (FDI), additional enhancing its calculated collaboration with Naval Team and declaring its dependability in jobs of high technological intricacy and advanced innovations. These blocks were built at the Salamis Shipyards in Salamis, Greece, and are currently en course from Greece to the Naval Team’s shipyard in Lorient, France, where they will certainly go through the following action in the frigate’s building.

The 4 (4) obstructs provided for Admiral Castex become part of the more comprehensive teamwork program with Naval Team, in which Salamis Shipyards takes part as an essential commercial companion, embarking on the building of pre-outfitted areas for the FDI frigate program being constructed both for Greece and for France. The involvement of Salamis Shipyards in the FDI program notes a transforming factor for the Greek marine protection market in its entirety, given that it is the very first time in background that a Greek shipyard has actually added to the building of an advanced battleship for the marine fleet of one more nation.

This collaboration with Naval Team, which has actually been progressively increasing given that its finalizing in 2022, includes the involvement of the shipyards in the building of the FDI frigates, both for the Hellenic Navy and the French Navy. Especially, it covers the manufacturing of pre-equipped hull and superstructure areas (blocks) for approximately 6 (6) FDI frigates in overall. As early as February 2024, the Salamis Shipyards had actually currently provided the 5 pre-equipped blocks of the 3rd Hellenic Navy FDI frigate Formion, which has actually given that been introduced and entered its last building phases. Likewise, by July 2024, the matching blocks for the second French FDI frigate Admiral Louzeau incomplete in Lorient were additionally provided.

Furthermore, Salamis Shipyards just recently increased their teamwork with Naval Team by authorizing a six-year agreement covering Follow-On Assistance (FOS) for the FDI frigates. This arrangement gives technological assistance for both the Hellenic and French FDI frigates, with the alternative to encompass extra solutions entailing complicated logistics, in-service procedures, and any type of future upgrades or alterations that might be called for. The Head Of State of Salamis Shipyards, Dr. Georgios Koros, specified:

Our continuous collaboration with Naval Team shows that Greece can stand at the leading edge of marine protection shipbuilding. We deal with uniformity, accuracy, and a solid feeling of obligation, both in the direction of our global companions and in the direction of our nation, to ensure that the function of the residential market is progressively enhanced in vital industries for nationwide protection and technical self-sufficiency.

Dr. George Koros, Chief Executive Officer of Salamis Shipyards

The mix of Salamis Shipyards’ historical understanding and experience sought after and specialized jobs, along with the proficiency moved to Greece by Naval Team for a high-technology and high-complexity program, extraordinary in Greece, has actually currently strongly developed specialized abilities and capacities, together with the needed qualifications that Salamis Shipyards currently have.

With a background extending greater than 4 years, Salamis Shipyards stand as one of one of the most steady and dependable columns of the Greek shipbuilding and protection market. Geared up with modern-day centers, extremely proficient workers, and continual conformity with European and NATO requirements, the shipyards have the ability to effectively supply jobs of terrific intricacy, not just in the armed forces yet additionally in the business field. Their involvement in the FDI program works as a clear testimony to residential proficiency and to Greece’s capacity to proactively add to global protection programs, sustained by a solid commercial base and a significantly outward-looking export possibility.

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Salamis Shipyards and the FDI heritage

It deserves keeping in mind that Greece has actually never ever prior to embarked on the building of a battleship part for an international country, equally as France, with Naval Team, has never ever formerly turned over the production of its armed forces tools to an international shipyard. It is an uncommon event for a worldwide shipbuilding leader to move such proficiency past its boundaries. The FDI frigates that Salamis Shipyards are developing for Naval Team symbolize extremely sophisticated modern technology, and the transfer of this knowledge, specialized abilities, and accredited capacities from France to Greece brings extensive importance.

Via the FDI frigate program, in addition to various other campaigns such as the awakening and innovation of the Island-class patrol vessels, Salamis Shipyards are emerging as a cornerstone of the Franco-Hellenic strategic partnership and a driving pressure in the rebirth of Greece’s shipbuilding field. At the exact same time, the shipyard is applying a significant financial investment program made to significantly boost and broaden its manufacturing capacities. These financial investments guarantee that Salamis Shipyards stay at the leading edge of shipbuilding technology, allowing the firm to embark on jobs of also better intricacy and calculated worth, consisting of the advancement of totally incorporated vessels for both protection and business applications.

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