The New Chinese Patrol Fleet

Surface Forces: The New Chinese Patrol Fleet

The New Chinese Patrol Fleet

May 20, 2012: In part to help the domestic ship building industry, the China Marine Surveillance (CMS) service is getting 36 large patrol ships. Seven of them are the size of corvettes (1,500) tons, while the rest are smaller (15 are 1,000 ton ships and 14 600 ton). The global economic recession has hit shipbuilding particularly hard over the last four years, and China is one of the top three shipbuilding nations in the world. For a long time, coastal patrol was carried out by navy cast-offs. But in the last decade, the coastal patrol force has been getting more and more new ships (as well as more retired navy small ships.) The CMS service is one of five Chinese organizations responsible for law enforcement along the coast. The others are the Coast Guard, which is a military force that constantly patrols the coasts. The Maritime Safety Administration handles search and res...

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