Defense buys RSS Barracuda in the Netherlands

GORINCHEM — Although Minister Krishnakoemarie Mathoera of Defence already gave a glimpse of the purchase of a naval vessel in the Netherlands last week, it was still unclear which vessel it was and who the supplier would be. It has now been leaked that it concerns the RSS Barracuda, a second-hand Fast Crew Supplier (FCS), which is now at the Dutch shipyard Damen in Gorinchem. Earlier this year, Mathoera announced that Suriname would ‘soon’ have …