First steel cut in Australian 30-year ship program

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The design for Austral’s fleet of Pacific patrol boats. Photo: Austal PPB
The first steel plates for a new fleet of Pacific patrol boats have been laser-cut (April 2017) at a small plant in southern Perth. It will be the start of a continuous 30-year program that Australian companies and the federal government hope will help spur a major export industry.
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