(ANSA) – TUNISI, 25 AGO – The amphibious ship San Giusto, an Lpd-class unit of the Italian Navy, commanded by Capt. Salvatore D’Avena, currently employed as a school ship, called today in the port of Tunis as an integral part of the 2025 Summer Education Campaign, a wide-ranging training project aimed at students of the 2nd class of the Livorno Naval Academy.
The San Giusto is a landing ship (LPD) built by Fincantieri in Riva Trigoso and in service since 1994. With a carrying capacity of 1,000 tons and equipped with extensive accommodations, she is traditionally used as a landing ship for troops and amphibious vehicles, but in the summer period, being logistically suitable, she lends herself as a School Ship for training Naval Academy officer trainees. Summer 2025 marks a return of the training “Summer Campaigns,” according to a planned itinerary of sea exercises, visits and stopovers in major Mediterranean ports, with excursions as far as the Atlantic Ocean and the seas of Northern Europe. The August 25-28 stopover in Tunis is thus one of the strategic stops planned in the naval education training plan, aimed at training officers who are technically, tactically and culturally complete.
During the stay in the Tunisian port, the Embassy of Italy through the Defense Attaché, C.V. Matteo Cusimano, with an industrious and painstaking cooperation activity between the two countries, organized a number of events for the benefit of military and civil authorities from Tunisia, also opening the Naval Unit to visits on board for the benefit of Embassy employees, the Italian Community in Tunisia and the Diplomatic Community accredited in the country. Institutional activities, meetings with local authorities and cultural events will also be held in order to deepen bilateral cooperation and strengthen the dialogue between the navies. In conclusion, the San Giusto stopover in Tunis is part of the Italian Navy’s Summer Education Campaign, a naval training initiative aimed at consolidating the skills of officer trainees and promoting institutional relations in the Mediterranean.
A significant port of call, then, not only for training but also for diplomacy, an integral part of the training mission of the Navy aimed at representing Italy.
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The San Giusto is a landing ship (LPD) built by Fincantieri in Riva Trigoso and in service since 1994. With a carrying capacity of 1,000 tons and equipped with extensive accommodations, she is traditionally used as a landing ship for troops and amphibious vehicles, but in the summer period, being logistically suitable, she lends herself as a School Ship for training Naval Academy officer trainees. Summer 2025 marks a return of the training “Summer Campaigns,” according to a planned itinerary of sea exercises, visits and stopovers in major Mediterranean ports, with excursions as far as the Atlantic Ocean and the seas of Northern Europe. The August 25-28 stopover in Tunis is thus one of the strategic stops planned in the naval education training plan, aimed at training officers who are technically, tactically and culturally complete.
During the stay in the Tunisian port, the Embassy of Italy through the Defense Attaché, C.V. Matteo Cusimano, with an industrious and painstaking cooperation activity between the two countries, organized a number of events for the benefit of military and civil authorities from Tunisia, also opening the Naval Unit to visits on board for the benefit of Embassy employees, the Italian Community in Tunisia and the Diplomatic Community accredited in the country. Institutional activities, meetings with local authorities and cultural events will also be held in order to deepen bilateral cooperation and strengthen the dialogue between the navies. In conclusion, the San Giusto stopover in Tunis is part of the Italian Navy’s Summer Education Campaign, a naval training initiative aimed at consolidating the skills of officer trainees and promoting institutional relations in the Mediterranean.
A significant port of call, then, not only for training but also for diplomacy, an integral part of the training mission of the Navy aimed at representing Italy.
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