Freire lays keel for new Saudi research flagship Thuwal II
The Freire Shipyard in Vigo, Spain, has laid the hull for the R/V Thuwal II, the new flagship of the Saudi research fleet being built for the King Abdullah University of Science
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KAUST orders Saudi Arabia’s first regional class research vessel
KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) announced that Freire Shipyards, which has over 100 years of shipbuilding experience, will build its new research vessel, R/V Thuwal II, at its yard
Glosten selected to design new Red Sea research vessel
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has selected Seattle-headquartered naval architecture firm Glosten to design a state-of-the-art oceanographic research vessel (RV). Replacing the existing RV Thuwal, the new