French Navy’s New BRF Supply Ship Starts Sea Trials
French shipbuilder Naval Group announced that the “Jacques Chevallier” started its sea trials campaign on 25 January.
31 Jan 2023
French shipbuilder Naval Group announced that the “Jacques Chevallier” started its sea trials campaign on 25 January.
27 Apr 2022
French shipbuilder Chantiers de l'Atlantique is set to launch the “Jacques Chevallier” on Friday 29 April. The vessel is the first of four new logistic support ships (LSS) known as "BRF" for the French Navy (Marine Nationale).
02 Mar 2022
Chantiers de l'Atlantique completed in record time the assembly of the “Jacques Chevallier”, the French shipyard announced on its social media last week...
07 Feb 2022
The OCCAR announced that Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri held the steel cutting of the bow section for the “Jacques Stosskopf”. The vessel is the second of four new logistic support ships (LSS) known as "BRF" for the French Navy (Marine Nationale).
27 Nov 2020
The OCCAR-EA, on behalf of the Italian Participant State, and the Temporary Consortium consisting of Fincantieri and Leonardo Company on Nov. 25 signed the Contract Amendment N° 4 for the Logistic Support Ship (LSS) program.
09 Jul 2020
The Hellenic Navy named and commissioned its second General Support Ship HS Iraklis. The event took place on July 6, at the Salamis naval base.
29 Jun 2020
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri is building for French shipyard Chantiers de l’Atlantique , the forward sections of the four "BRF" logistic support ships under the Franco-Italian LSS program led by OCCAR.
16 Jun 2020
The Canadian Government awarded a $2.4 billion contract to Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards for the full construction of two joint support ships (JSS) for the Royal Canadian Navy.
10 Jun 2020
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN)’s largest-ever vessel built by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) departed for its maiden voyage home. HHI announced today (June 10) that it held a sail-off ceremony for the 26,000-ton logistics support vessel, HMNZS Aotearoa.
16 Apr 2020
Leading boat-handling systems supplier Vestdavit has won a tender from Chantiers de l’Atlantique to supply davit systems for four new logistic support ships for the French Navy known as the BRF (bâtiments ravitailleurs de force or force replenishment vessel).