Defence buys boat bound for Customs

By David Ellery
Updated April 18 2018 - 9:44pm, first published March 20 2012 - 3:00am

More than a third of $425.5 million in Defence spending announced yesterday is to go on a rugged all-weather ''multi-purpose offshore support vessel'' the navy will hand over to Customs Service fleet - at no charge - in less than five years.

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