The Navy formally took over part of a strategic shipyard facing the West Philippine Sea as its newest ship BRP Antonio Luna (FF-151) made a symbolic docking at the former facility of South Korea’s Hanjin Heavy Industries in Subic Bay, Zambales.
“We have been buying capital ships but we don’t have a place to park them. They’re at South Harbor, squatting there. But recently, the Navy got the northern part of Hanjin. The Navy is happy because they have a place of their own where they can park their capital ships,” Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said at the Philippine Navy anniversary last Friday. Capital ships are the Navy’s most important warships and are generally larger compared to other members of a fleet.
Aside from its ideal location, Bacordo said the shipyard has a deep harbor facility for their big ships, which their naval bases lacked. The shipyard, which at the height of its operations employed about 30,000 workers, went into court insolvency proceedings. The move to sell to an American investor was a strategic play to ward off a potential Chinese takeover, a security official told the Inquirer.
“It also would send a strong message to Beijing that, despite its efforts, the alliance between the United States and the Philippines is strong and unbreakable,” he wrote.
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