Crane is used for transporting Tet gifts to the platform. (Photo: VNA)
The platform’s task is to serve as a lighthouse to notify fishing and transport vessels travelling in the area, for setting up hydro-meteorological research stations and act as shelters to avoid storms and rescue fishermen. (Photo: VNA)
Its most important task is to safeguard the southern continental shelf, and the peace for natural resource exploitation on the continental shelf. (Photo: VNA)
DK1 is a group of offshore economic, scientific and technical service stations set up in 1989 on Vietnam's southern continental shelf. (Photo: VNA)
Officers and soldiers performing duties at DK1 receive Tet gìts. (Photo: VNA)
The Tet gifts include food, essential goods, and symbolic items of Tet such as apricot and peach blossoms and kumquat trees. (Photo: VNA)
Tet gifts delivered to officers, soldiers on DK1 platforms
A delegation of the High Command of the Naval Region 2 paid an early Tết visit to officers and soldiers on duty on DK1 Platforms. Over the past more than three decades, those stationed at DK1 platforms have contributed to marine economic activities and the safeguarding of national sovereignty over seas and islands.
