The Vietnamese Navy has launched on March 12, 2021, a new Damen RoRo 5612 multipurpose vessel at the Song Thu Corporation’s shipyard in Da Nang.
This is the 4th ship of it’s class in service with the Vietnam People’s Navy but the only one that was actually directly ordered by Vietnam. The 3 ships that had been previously built in Vietnam were ordered by Venezuela but were never delivered. After lingering in Vietnamese shipyards for a couple months the VPN moved to purchase the vessels themselves.
In December 2019, Vietnamese Navy has signed a contract to build a new Roro 5612 multipurpose amphibious transport ship designed by the Dutch Shipbuilding Group Damen and constructed at Song Thu Corporation in Vietnam. It was the fourth Roro 5612 class of the Vietnam Navy that will receive YN541056 number.