Portugal to Acquire Three Frigates from Italy's Fincantieri for €3.9 Billion

Portugal to buy three Fincantieri-built frigates - Meloni after meeting Montenegro

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 20 - Lisbon has decided to buy three new frigates from Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, Premier Giorgia Meloni told a joint news conference with Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro after meeting him at her office in Rome on Monday. "One of the sectors where we can certainly make a qualitative leap forward is the defence industry," Meloni said. "I am very pleased with the Portuguese authorities' decision to purchase three Evo-class frigates built by Fincantieri. "This ...

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