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Navy receives passenger ship HQ-571

Factory Z189, under the General Department of Defence Industry, held a ceremony to hand over passenger ship HQ-571 to the Navy Service in Hai Phong on March 14th.



A number of high-ranking officials, namely Rear-Admiral Pham Ngoc Minh, the Deputy-Commander of the Naval High Command, Chief-of-staff of the Navy Service and representatives of involved agencies under the Defence Ministry and the Navy Service attended the ceremony.



Addressing at the ceremony, Rear-admiral Pham Ngoc Minh asked the officers and soldiers, who had been staffed on the HQ-571, to quickly master the vessel operation, technical features and effectively exploit new modern equipment of the vessel to fulfill the assigned tasks.



The HQ-571 was designed by the Vietnam Institute for Ship Science and Technology. The ship, which is 71m long and 13.2m wide, has a maximum speed of 16 nautical miles per hour.



It is able to continuously operate 40 days without passengers and can serve 180 passengers 20 days at sea.

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