French equipment manufacturer CNIM is right on track and on time to deliver a new generation of landing craft to the French Navy (Marine Nationale), having cut steel of the first EDA-S in October this year.

CNIM will deliver fourteen new landing craft (LCU type, designated EDA-S for "engins de débarquement amphibie standards" in French) to replace the the ageing "CTM" (previous generation of LCUs) in the French Navy (Marine Nationale).