{"id":119101,"date":"2026-07-07T01:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/119101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:14:12","slug":"canada-selects-germanys-thyssenkrupp-to-build-12-submarines-as-it-boosts-nato-spending-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/119101\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada selects Germany’s ThyssenKrupp to build 12 submarines as it boosts NATO spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canada on Monday named Germany\u2019s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems as the preferred supplier for up to 12 submarines in what Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> called the country\u2019s largest-ever military procurement.<\/p>\n

The decision came before Carney headed to this week\u2019s NATO summit<\/a>, where allies face pressure to back higher defense spending with concrete plans.<\/p>\n

Carney said the procurement will be \u201cthe largest in Canadian history\u201d and that the TKMS platform is optimal for Arctic waters and for NATO.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe submarine is proven and capable,\u201d Carney said, noting TKMS supply submarines to more than one-third of NATO members.<\/p>\n

Carney named TKMS the preferred supplier and said negotiations would begin on a final contract. He declined to disclose the price, saying only it would involve \u201ctens of billions of dollars\u201d in investment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a strong signal for our transatlantic and European partnership,\u201d Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz said before thanking Carney. <\/p>\n

The German company<\/a> beat out South Korea\u2019s Hanwha Ocean<\/a>. ThyssenKrupp said its submarines would strengthen interoperability because many NATO allies already operate its conventionally powered vessels.<\/p>\n

Canada has pledged to sharply increase military spending after years of lagging behind NATO targets. Carney has pledged to raise defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product by 2035 after Canada reached NATO\u2019s previous 2% spending target this year.<\/p>\n

He said Canada\u2019s fiscal plan already provides for defense spending to reach 4% of gross domestic product by 2030, ahead of NATO\u2019s timetable.<\/p>\n

Carney said Germany and Norway, the two countries that jointly designed the submarines, will free up production slots to speed deliveries, allowing Canada to receive four submarines by 2034 \u2014 two years earlier than TKMS had publicly projected.<\/p>\n

The new fleet will replace Canada\u2019s four aging Victoria-class submarines, which were purchased secondhand from the United Kingdom in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n

No U.S. company bid because the United States builds only nuclear-powered submarines, while Canada sought conventionally powered diesel-electric vessels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sovereignty of our country, bounded by the three oceans and the world\u2019s longest coastline, depends on our maritime capabilities,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canada on Monday named Germany\u2019s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems as the preferred supplier for up to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[820,525,17,591,36057,29480,586,14337,592,1888,8146,111,12396,691,12399,113,3191,218],"class_list":["post-119101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-asia-pacific","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-canada-government","tag-contracts-and-orders","tag-economic-indicators","tag-europe","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-general-news","tag-germany","tag-international-agreements","tag-mark-carney","tag-military-and-defense","tag-nato","tag-north-atlantic-treaty-organization","tag-politics","tag-south-korea","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}