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EUROPEAN SHIPBUILDING AND REPAIR

Spurred by a number of key fac- tors—the replacement of older ves- sels in the world fleet, the cruise ship boom, impending double-hull and double-bottom legislation, and prospects of increased trade after 1992—the world shipbuilding order- book reached a five-year high at the end of 1989.

With shipowners scrambling to find berths, European shipyards are acquiring a growing percentage of the workload.

The following is a brief overview based on responses received as of press time of some of the principal

European yards involved in ship- building, repair and conversion.

Portugal's LISNAVE Earns $130 Million During 1989

Frederico Spranger, commer- cial director of Portugal's Lisnave, reportedly the world's busiest ship- repairer, believes that there should be greater control over shipowners who neglect essential ship repairs.

Photo: The recently delivered Fantasy, built by MASA-Yards at Helsinki, Finland. "This will happen in Europe," said

Mr. Spranger, "and it will be of long-term benefit to the ship-repair industry." In 1989, Lisnave earned about $130 million in the ship- repair sector.

During 1989, some of the major repair activity at Lisnave's North

Yard at Rocha included structural repairs of the 14,867-dwt general cargo vessel Symphonic, operated by East Gulf Management, which involved more than 85 tons of steel work; alongside repairs on the U.S.

Navy helicopter carriers Nassau and

Shreveport; and substantial repairs to the 8,636-dwt reefer Provincia De

Los Rios, which included double bottom plating work, renewal of in- sulation and work on the MAN

B&W main engine.

At Lisnave's South Yard at Mar- gueira, the 280,428-dwt tanker Mo- bil Petrel, owned by Mobil Shipping

Co., was drydocked for painting and inspection and steel repairs in her damaged tanks. Chevron Trans- port's M/T Chevron Horizon of 123,969 dwt, underwent normal blasting and painting and extensive renewal of damaged plating on her bottom and stern area. Machinery overhaul of three cargo and three stripping ballast pumps and retub- ing of her auxiliary boiler was also completed within a 67-day period.

P&O's deluxe liner Dawn Princess underwent refurbishment at the

South Yard. Work included renewal of both her tailshafts and refit of new stern tube glands.

For literature describing LIS-

NAVE's ship-repair services,

Circle 97 on Reader Service Card $270 Million In Orders

For Five Tankers Won

By Astilleros Espanoles

Spain's Astilleros Espanoles S.A. (AESA), has been awarded two con- tracts from separate entities worth about $270 million for the construc- tion of five tankers.

The first order worth a total of just under $150 million for three one-million-barrel tankers to be built by AESA's Puerto Real yard in

Cadiz, Spain, was confirmed by Ud- devalla Shipping.

Two of the 143,000-dwt vessels will be delivered in June 1991 and

March 1992, while the third—a re- sale from France's CNN/Worms— will be delivered in October 1990.

The Friede & Goldman-designed Drillmar I marks the first entry for Astano shipyard into the offshore market.

A second contract for two Suez- max crude oil carriers has been placed with the Puerto Real yard by

Spain's state-owned Empresa Na- tional Elcano.

Together, the ships are believed to be costing around $120 million.

Delivery of the 140,000-dwt ves- sels will be at the end of 1992 and beginning of 1993. (continued) 12 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News