{"id":48994,"date":"2026-07-06T04:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/48994\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T04:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:24:25","slug":"canada-to-decide-between-german-south-korean-submarine-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/48994\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to decide between German, South Korean submarine bids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canada is expected Monday to choose between German and South Korean bids to build a fleet of 12 submarines in one of its biggest-ever military procurements. <\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems and <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/canada-south-korea-submarine-bid-77395ee0340731f4f58609f47a93c4c8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Korea\u2019s Hanwha Ocean<\/a> are competing for the contract to build 12 conventionally powered submarines worth tens of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement is expected before Prime Minister Mark Carney departs to <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nato-summit-trump-erdogan-bond-c3fbddc43d7f4b0b12fcc2442ee03613\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the NATO summit<\/a> in Turkey as NATO allies boost defense spending.<\/p>\n<p>Carney is scheduled to tour a Canadian Armed Forces base in the Atlantic-coast province of Nova Scotia on Monday before announcing \u201cnew measures to make Canada more secure, resilient, and prosperous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Carney declined to confirm the submarine announcement will be made on Monday. But Carney said in May a decision would be announced within weeks. <\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s current fleet of four Victoria class submarines are barely in operation. <\/p>\n<p>German-Norwegian consortium ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems has pitched its submarines as strengthening NATO, noting it has supplied much of the alliance\u2019s conventional submarine fleet.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Hanwha Ocean has mounted an aggressive advertising campaign and highlighted economic benefits for Canada. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, Hanwha showcased its KSS-III diesel-electric submarine in British Columbia after the vessel completed the South Korean navy\u2019s first-ever trans-Pacific crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Both companies say their proposals would generate jobs and investment in Canada. <\/p>\n<p>Carney\u2019s government has pledged to meet NATO\u2019s higher <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nato-luxembourg-defense-spending-military-budgets-255795eaf8fddff9a05e7b25b678bdbb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defense spending targets<\/a>, committing to spend 5% of Canada\u2019s gross domestic product on defense by 2035 after reaching the alliance\u2019s previous 2% benchmark this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canada is expected Monday to choose between German and South Korean bids to build a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,94,2042,40616,122,5,6785,25849,1804,478,8478,3717,358,788,46],"class_list":["post-48994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-contracts-and-orders","tag-general-news","tag-germany","tag-international-agreements","tag-mark-carney","tag-military-and-defense","tag-nato","tag-north-atlantic-treaty-organization","tag-nova-scotia","tag-politics","tag-turkey","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}