Taiwan Receives Latest Coast Guard Cutter from $1.3B Fleet Build-up Plan

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Taipei received its latest cutter this week from a $1.3 billion program initiated almost a decade ago to expand Taiwan’s white hull fleet to counter coercive Chinese activities. Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration (CGA) took delivery of the 1,000-ton patrol ship Penghu (CG 1007) from the CSBC Corporation’s Keelung shipyard on Tuesday. The cutter is the fifth vessel in a class of six from a 2018 plan that sought to commission up to 141 patrol vessels of various designs into the CGA. “The progressive deployment of large Coast Guard vessels not only strengthens frontline enforcement capabilities but also demonstrates the nation’s

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