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European Shipbuilding (continued) port (freight/passenger) ships, and dredgers.

Among the Scandanavian coun- tries, Denmark's Burmeister &

Wain Skibsvaerft A/S delivered three newbuildings in 1987, the product tankers M/T Nordflex,

M/T Nordkap and M/T Chrisholm.

The yard recently delivered a CPT 54E advanced product tanker, the

K/S Margretheholm and christened the the M/T Fredholm, which is being built for the Danish partner- ship K/S Frederiksholm. She is one of two product tankers on order at the yard.

Denmark's Lindoe Shipyard is busy with the construction of a series of nine containerships for

Maersk Line. The yard has already delivered the first 3,500-TEU con- tainership.

The Norwegian shipyard Mjellem & Karlsen received an order at the end of 1987 for the $15-million con- version of the U.S. ship Magnus Sea, which was used in the oil explora- tion market. The order called for the lengthening of the Magnus Sea by 40 feet and conversion into a fish processing vessel.

Another Norwegian yard, Ulstein

Hatloe, performed a major conver- sion for a U.S. shipowner. Ulstein

Hatloe converted a former contain- ership into a 341-foot surimi factory trawler. Called the Northern Eagle, she is one of the world's largest surimi factory trawlers.

In addition, Ulstein Hatloe and

Mjellem & Karlsen have teamed up with Brodrene Aa A/S to collaborate on a building program for the Royal

Norwegian Navy. The three ship- building groups will construct 10 new catamaran-type minesweepers.

Finnish shipbuilder Wartsila Ma- rine Industries Inc., which was formed by the merger of Wartsila's and Valmet's shipbuilding divisions, with yards at Turku and Helsinki, has one of the largest orderbooks in

Europe. As of June 1,1988, Wartsila

Marine had 30 vessels on order with deliveries scheduled into 1991.

Among the orders were three 70,000-grt, 2,500-passenger cruise ships for Carnival Cruise Lines; three passenger ships from the own- ers of Viking Line (two from Rederi

AB Slite of Sweden and one from SF

Line Ab of Aland; and two 50,000- grt luxury cruise ferries from Effoa and Johnson Line.

The Turku yard of Wartsila re- cently delivered the 709-foot Sea- ward to Norwegian Cruise Line, a unit of Kloster Cruise Ltd. The 1,800-passenger ship was christened in special ceremonies in Manhattan.

Wartsila has established itself as one of the world's leading designers and builders of luxury cruise ships.

Another Finnish builder, Rauma-

Repola recently received an order for a 354-1/4-foot luxury liner for use in the Baltic, Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas. The luxury ship will carry about 300 passengers.

Rauma-Repola is also constructing the second of a series of three 588- foot fish factory ships for V/O Su- doimport. Rauma-Repola operates three shipyards, with facilities at

Rauma, Uusikaupunki and Savon- linna.

In southern Europe, spurred by its low labor costs, advanced facili- ties and ability to build sophisti- cated vessels, Yugoslavia is now Eu- rope's leading shipbuilder based on both output and order backlog. Dur-

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Panda, built by 3. Maj ing 1987, Yugoslavian yards had an output of 16 ships totaling 350,000 grt. This represented an increase of 117,000 grt over the 1986 deliveries.

According to the latest figures from Lloyd's Register Shipbuilding

Returns, Yugoslavia has orders to- taling 564,590 gross tons under con- struction and 601,000 gt not yet commenced, for a total orderbook of 1,165,590 gt—third in the world be- hind South Korea and Japan.

One of the major Yugoslavian yards, Brodosplit shipyard in Split, has received a contract from C.Y.

Tung for two 140,000-dwt tankers, which would be reportedly the larg- est ships ever built in the country.

The yard has four other tankers on order for a Norwegian owner. The

Split yard also received an order from SF Line of Finland for two 37,500-grt superferries. The first of the new generation Baltic cruise fer- ries, the Amorella, has completed her final sea trials and is expected to be in service shortly. Her sister ves- sel should be delivered next spring.

The order represents an important step for Split in the passenger ship- building sector.

Last year, 3. Maj Shipyard, lo- cated at Rijeka, delivered the 83,000-dwt oil tanker/chemical car- rier Panda to the East Asiatic Com- pany of Denmark. The yard has orders for two more tankers of this type. Additionally, Teekay Ship- ping of Liberia has ordered two 111,000-dwt crude tankers, which are expected to be delivered at the end of 1988 and beginning of 1989.

Uljanik yard, located in Pula, is busy constructing a number of so- phisticated ships. Among the new- buildings are four 16,200-dwt prod- uct carriers for the Soviet Union, two 23,000-dwt containerships for a domestic owner and two product carriers for Jugotanker.

In Italy, the Montefalcone yard of

Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani has begun the construction of the first of two cruise ships ordered by

Sitmar Cruises. Each of the vessels will be designed to accommodate 1,950 passengers.

Last year, Fincantieri yards com- pleted 10 merchant vessels (a total of 208,600 gt). Among the vessels completed was the Micoperi 7000, reportedly the largest and most powerful heavylift semisubmersible ship in the world. The Micoperi 7000 is a semisubmersible crane barge with two hulls, each with a length of 541 feet and beam of 108 feet, supporting a 574-foot by 285- foot platform. The ship has two swivel cranes that can lift 7,000 tons each.

Fincantieri's Palermo yard is con- structing a 475-foot rail/vehicle/ passenger ferry for Italian State

Railways. Fincantieri's Diesel En- gine Division built the two six-cylin- der medium-speed diesel engines that will supply propulsion power for the vessel, as well as the four six- cylinder diesels that will supply ship's service power.

The Genoa yard of Officine Mar- iotti has received a $118.8-million contract from Costa Cruises to con- vert a container vessel into a luxury cruise liner. Under the contract, the 15,932-grt containership Italia would be converted for use in the

Mediterranean market. Upon de- livery in April 1990, she will be renamed the Costa Marina.

Greece's two largest shipyards,

Hellenic Shipyards at Scaramanga, and Eleusis Shipyards have been kept busy with a number of domes- tic naval orders. In addition, Hellen- ic is involved in discussions with the

Soviet Union to build a series of six reefer vessels. Hellenic recently launched the third in a series of four reefer vessels it is building for the

USSR. •

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Patrol Frigate Contract

Indal Technologies of Mississau- ga, Ontario, Canada, recently an- nounced that it has received a $10- million contract from Saint John

Shipbuilding Limited of Saint John,

N.B., to supply Recovery Assist, Se- curing and Traversing (RAST) sys- tems and support services for the second batch of six new Canadian frigates.

The contract is a follow-on to a previous contract awarded in 1984 for RAST systems for the first six frigates in the Canadian Patrol Fri- gate program. Those frigates are currently under construction. De- livery of the second set of RAST systems will begin in March 1990.

The support services include pro- gram management, engineering sup- port and system testing.

The RAST system will enable Ca- nadian naval helicopters to operate safely on the frigates in gale force weather, day and night. The system allows helicopter pilots to land and take off from the deck of a pitching, heaving, rolling ship. Once the heli- copter has landed, the system se- cures it to the deck, aligns it and then traverses it into and out of the ship's hangar. 18

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