ST Marine could land first SCDF vessels contract

Singapore

ST MARINE is well-placed to land the first newbuilding contract that Singapore Civil Defence Force is set to award in 2016, just over four years after SCDF assumed the fire-fighting function within Singapore's waters.

The Business Times understands that the turnkey shipbuilding subsidiary of ST Technologies Engineering has emerged as the frontrunner in a tender for the construction of three new vessels to undertake marine fire-fighting and rescue operations in Singapore's maritime waters.

The contract award is expected to be finalised at the earliest in September, just weeks before leadership change…