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Navantia Shipyard Demonstrates Efficiencies, Best Practices

By Geoff Fein During his tenure as Navy Secretary, Donald Winter has made it a point to visit foreign shipyards when the opportunity presents itself. The visits have enabled Winter to see best practices of the shipyards as well as some of the platforms the yards are producing. On his most recent trip to Israel and India, Winter stopped off in Spain to tour Navantia shipyard. "Navantia is going to a very modular construction approach...a very high level of outfitting,"…

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