Navantia has a 270-year track record in building and repairing ships. Highlights include the biggest slipway-launched ship, the first aircraft carrier built for a foreign country. Feats like these have helped to position Navantia´s shipyard among the world´s best.

Navantia develops top quality state-of-the-art products with a high added value, backed up by excellent service, to ensure competitive success in the world market.

Its capacity allows Navantia to take on a wide range of activities:

• Designing, building and integrating merchant and naval ships.
• Ship repairs and conversions.
• Manufacturing diesel engines for ships and for other industrial applications.
• Designing, building and integrating combat and naval weapon systems, and ship control and safety systems.

With a substantial commitment to R&D over the next few years, Navantia is targeting new technological breakthroughs to:

• Meet and anticipate customer needs.
• Offer products and services of the utmost sophistication and excellent performance.
• Cut costs.
• Reduce delivery deadlines.
• Stand out from competitors.

Navantia focuses a good deal of its research effort on the development of new products with a high added value, not only to meet future customer needs but also to guarantee a high future growth potential.

Navantia is developing innovations to be incorporated into each of the various types of ships that it produces today, with the aim of continually pushing back the boundaries of technology and capacity. It is also fostering future projects for developing and marketing these new products:

• Submarines
• Corvettes.
• New military transport.
• Troop transport and amphibious assault vessels LHD/LPH.

Navantia has set upon a proactive commercial policy to complement its technological and production improvements and to meet the needs of the world market. To this end it intends to:

• Offer new, more sophisticated products in line with current demand.
• Boost the added value of these products.
• Carve out and develop new market niches.

Bringing the business closer to the customer is an important aspect of this commercial policy. By providing additional, personalised services for each customer - merchant and naval - it will be able to respond ever more swiftly to market demands.