French shipbuilder Ocea has signed a €136.5 million contract with Ukraine’s Border Guard Service to provide 20 fast patrol boats by 2023.

French shipbuilder Ocea has signed a €136.5 million contract with Ukraine’s Border Guard Service to provide 20 fast patrol boats by 2023. Fifteen of the 32-meter boats will be built at Ocea’s Atlantic shipyard, about 100 km south of Saint-Nazaire. The other five will be built at Nibulon’s shipyard in Mykolaiv. The aluminum boats have a range of 1,200 nautical miles, roughly the equivalent of Ukraine’s coast line, from Izmail, on the Danube, to Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov.