While attending the launch of the Bernardo Houssay ship in the Costanera Sur’s Argentine Naval Industrial Complex (CINAR), President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said that «naval activity in the country had been neglected for a long time.”
Fernández de Kirchner, who was joined by Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli, announced the conclusion of the repair works of the San Juan submarine and highlighted that for the first time in twenty years, Argentina once again has the technological and technical capability to repair submarines.