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Home» News»Naval Group & ECA Group Win Belgian-Dutch MCM Vessel Competition
(Credit: Belgium Naval & Robotics)

Naval Group & ECA Group Win Belgian-Dutch MCM Vessel Competition

The French consortium Belgium Naval & Robotics (formed by Naval Group & ECA Group) won the Belgian-Dutch MCM Program, the Kern (Belgian Council of Ministers) confirmed today, beating the two other competitors, Damen and Sea Naval Solutions.

Nathan Gain 15 Mar 2019

According to Belgian daily newspaper L’Echo, Naval Group and ECA Group underbid its competitors: The procurement of 12 vessels and associated equipment would ultimately amount to 1.756 billion euros, at the rate of 887 million for Belgium and 966 million for the Netherlands.

Under this 2Bn€ program, the Belgian Naval & Robotics consortium will design and produce 12 new generation Mine countermeasures (MCM) vessels and 10 tool boxes. The Belgian Navy (Marinecomponent / Composante marine) and the Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine) will each get 6 so called mine warfare “motherships”. Belgium was the lead nation for this procurement process.

Naval News spent two days with Belgium Naval & Robotics, a consortium formed by Naval Group and ECA Group to answer the Dutch and Belgian Navies’ joint Mine Countermeasures program (MCM). From stem to stern, let’s discover how this joint venture (called a « combination » by the Belgian military) has built an innovative and strategic offer covering all Belgian requests, and more…
(Credit: Belgium Naval & Robotics)

With the contract now awarded, we are eager to see Belgian Naval & Robotics’ mothership design. This consortium is indeed the only one of the three competitors that has yet to unveil its MCM vessel design publicly. A Naval Group spokesperson previously told Naval News that the procurement process prevented them from disclose details about their design.

Earlier this year, Naval News toured Naval Group and ECA facilities to learn more about their offer. You can read all about it in this article.

The Belgian and Dutch navies will start replacing their ageing fleet of MCM vessels from 2023. The Tripartite class vessels were built in the 1980s under a trilateral program between Belgium, Netherlands and France. Under the MCM program, the two navies intend to purchase 12 new vessels, 10 “tool boxes” and an initial 10 years support contract. 

Three naval defense joint ventures (called « combinations » by the Belgian military) are competing in this tender: SeaNavalSolutions (Thales, EDR, Chantiers de l’Atlantique and Socarenam); Belgium Naval & Robotics (Naval Group and ECA) and Damen Imtech Belgium.

Ons land koopt 6 nieuwe #mijnenjagers van de Franse Naval Group. Aankoop samen met Nederland, dat er ook 6 koopt. #defensie. #vrtnws pic.twitter.com/6YqT19IeFK

— Goedele Devroy (@GoedeleDevroy) March 15, 2019
The first “clear” image of the mothership design
Belgian Navy ECA Group MCM Program Mine Warfare Naval Group 2019-03-15
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Posted by : Nathan Gain
Nathan is based in Namur, Belgium. He holds an MA in modern history with a minor in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL – Belgium). Fascinated by military history he naturally turned to the defense sector after graduating and is particularly interested in Northern European and Belgian defense issues as well as in anything related to naval aviation.

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