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**First fuel cell German-made submarine for Greece launched**
Publication date: 22-April-2004 Source: Xinhua News Agency
The first German fuel cell submarine to be exported to Greece was launched in Kiel Thursday, the manufacturer HDW said. The submarine is one of the four that the Kiel-based HDW has been building for Greece. The other three will be constructed at the HDW subsidiary Hellenic Shipyards in Greece. The vessel, estimated to cost 250 million euros (295 million US dollars), is 65 meter long with a displacement of 1,700 tones. Equipped with an air-independent fuel cell propulsion system, it is considered one of the quietest types of submarines in the world. Meanwhile, the German Submarine Consortium GSC, of which the HDW is a member, signed a contract Wednesday in Lisbon to provide two fuel cell submarines for the Portuguese navy with an option for a third vessel. "In obtaining this contract, the German shipbuilding industry is once again demonstrating its position as market leader in non- nuclear submarine construction," a HDW statement SAID. ~

The first German fuel cell submarine to be exported to Greece was launched in Kiel Thursday, the manufacturer HDW said.

The submarine is one of the four that the Kiel-based HDW has been building for Greece. The other three will be constructed at the HDW subsidiary Hellenic Shipyards in Greece.

The vessel, estimated to cost 250 million euros (295 million US dollars), is 65 meter long with a displacement of 1,700 tones. Equipped with an air-independent fuel cell propulsion system, it is considered one of the quietest types of submarines in the world.

Meanwhile, the German Submarine Consortium GSC, of which the HDW is a member, signed a contract Wednesday in Lisbon to provide two fuel cell submarines for the Portuguese navy with an option for a third vessel.

"In obtaining this contract, the German shipbuilding industry is once again demonstrating its position as market leader in non- nuclear submarine construction," a HDW statement SAID.