Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Three Indian Navy ships will be visiting the Jeddah Islamic Port on a goodwill visit from March 26-29

March 22, 2012
http://www.defencenews.in/defence-news-internal.asp?get=new&id=1098

Three Indian Navy ships will be visiting the Jeddah Islamic Port on a goodwill visit from March 26-29.

INS Tir, INS Shardul and ICGS Veera of the Southern Naval Command will be arriving in Jeddah. Capt. Ajay Sirohi, Capt. Sanjay Sachdeva and Cmdr. V. K. Varghese are commanding the ships respectively.

Goodwill visits to foreign lands by navies the world over are undertaken to enhance relations and foster greater defense cooperation between the countries. The present deployment of the training squadron is aimed at strengthening friendship with India’s maritime neighbors.

The last goodwill visit to the Kingdom was by three Indian naval ships INS Tir, INS Krishna and ICGS Veera was to Jubal during March 24-28, 2011.

Two Indian naval ships, INS Delhi and INS Aditya, had earlier visited Jeddah on May 22-25, 2009.

Two Royal Saudi Naval Forces ships, HMS Dammam and HMS Yanbu, had undertaken a goodwill visit to India in July 2008. They visited Mumbai
.

The forthcoming visit by these three naval ships is the latest manifestation of the close, friendly and historical ties between the two nations.

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