PLA's STUFT (Ships Taken Up From Trade)

A good follow up article from the PLAdaily to Stephen Miles' "PLA Experimentation with Armed Cargo Ships"

http://www.china-defense.com/oped/armed_cargo_ships/armed_cargo_ships01.html

Container vessel modification injects vigor into maritime military transportability

(Source: PLA Daily) 2010-01-28
http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/news-channels/china-military-news/2010-01/28/content_4127965.htm

　　Since early January, the Navigational Affairs Military Representative Office of the Nanjing Military Area Command (MAC) of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has successfully completed the modification of many container vessels, hence overcoming the difficulties in universality and exchangeability of different ship types, different cargo holds and different parts. As a result, the modified facilities are standardized and newly-built civilian ships are required to reach the new standard to meet military demand. The modified container vessels will inject new vigor into the maritime military transportation. Recently, the research program “Container Vessel Modification and Standard Design” won the Military Scientific and Technological Progress Award.

　　In order to improve the support structure of maritime military transportation, the Navigational Affairs Military Representative Office of the Nanjing MAC adheres to the principle of being applicable both in peacetime and wartime, reliable in technology,economic and easy to be modified, fully explores the transportation potential of container vessels and tries to improve the maritime military transportation capability to the maximum.

　　By Yang Guoping, Li Shengcai

Editor:Ouyang