VietNamNet Bridge - After a stop at the port of Tenerife, Spain, on February 15, HQ 183 Ho Chi Minh submarine will stop at some ports to refuel before arriving in Cam Ranh in early March.

According to flotprom.ru, on February 12, as the sea in the St. Petersburg Port was frozen, the submarine was brought to the port of Kaliningrad and loaded to a cargo vessel of the Netherlands, named Rolldock Star, to be transported to Vietnam.

Rosoboronexport used the most modern salvage tug named Karev to pull the submarine the St. Petersburg Port to the Kaliningrad Port, crossing 1,000 km distance in bad weather conditions, the sea surface was frozen.

Then Rolldock Star carried the submarine following the fixed roadmap, crossing the north of the Canary Islands, Spain, and docked the Tenerife Port on February 15.

According to the roadmap, the vessel will stop at some ports for refuel, including the Cape Town (South Africa), passing the Cape of Good Hope, across the Indian Ocean to the Straits of Malacca and call at Singapore.

Singapore will be the final stop of Rolldock Star before reaching the Port of Cam Ranh in Khanh Hoa province of Vietnam.

The Ho Chi Minh submarine was built at the Admiralty Verfi Shipyard from November 2011. It was launched on December 28, 2012.

In late 2009, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung announced the signing of a contract worth about $2 billion with Russia on the building of six kilo submarines for the Vietnam Navy. The entire six submarines will be delivered before the end of 2016.

The submarines are built by the Admiralty Shipyard in Saint-Petersburg.

After the submarines Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, the third named Hai Phong is expected to be shipped to Vietnam in 2014.

Some pictures of the Ho Chi Minh submarine at the Tenerife Port:

L. Thu