Odense Steel Shipyard announced that the future flexible support ships for the Royal Danish Navy will be built at Lindoe. Two vessels, 140 metres long and 4,600 tons, will be built. The vessels will have a deck area of 900 square metres and a load capacity of 1,700 tons. They are intended to cover a broad range of tasks such as a command vessel, supply vessel, helicopter platform, evacuation vessel or hospital vessel.

The Royal Danish Navy Material Command and the Yard will now start the project planning phase till the end of 2001. The first vessel is to be delivered by the end of 2004 – the second vessel mid-2005. The Royal Danish Navy will supply all military equipment.