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SCANDINAVIAN REPORT adding to total design hours. The requisite pre- cision is achieved by marking triangles and lines, which are created automatically, with the option of adding more triangles manually.

Receptivity to the Finnish-engineered Azipod propulsor design is gaining ground, as demon- strated by the selection of the innovative sys- tem for two newbuildings which signal

Wagenborg Shipping's entry into the offshore support vessel market. Beyond the fact that each will be installed with twin azimuthing units incorporating a podded 1,620-kW electric motor, few technical details have been released as yet concerning the vessels. Booked by

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Kvaerner Masa-Yards (KMY) on the under- standing that it will effect delivery from its

Helsinki premises in the fall of 1998, the pair is believed to have been assigned duties with

Shell.

Adoption of the Azipod propulsion arrange- ments will bear directly both on the vessels' off- shore capabilities and on their ice-navigation performance. The system is well-proven in the worst ice conditions to be found in Europe's northernmost waters, having been retrofitted in 1993 and 1995, respectively, to two 16,000- dwt Arctic products tankers deployed by the

Finnish-Russian joint company Nemarc.

It will have a new reference this spring in the 10-MW Botnica, the latest in a new genera- tion of Finnish ship design combining a winter role as a Baltic icebreaker with open-season employment in offshore construction work. A key stage in the commercial introduction of

Azipod beyond the realms of the ice or other- wise rigorous northern environs was reached last month with the entry of Carnival Cruise

Lines' Elation into revenue-earning employ.

Extrapolation of results of sea trials conduct- ed during January indicate that the system should give fuel savings of some 40 tons per week, on the basis of an eight percent increase in propulsion efficiency relative to preceding vessels of the same Fantasy-class.

Maneuverability, turning circle and slow-speed steerability also showed significant improve- ment relative to the same class of ship with con- ventional propellers and rudders. The same system, based on two 14-MW podded Azipods, will be used in the follow-on Carnival new- building, Paradise.

Royal Caribbean International's recent deci- sion to exercise an option on a third Project

Eagle cruise ship of 136,000-gt from KMY holds out the prospect of an order for a further shipset of three 14-MW Azipods and associated,

ABB diesel-electric powering arrangements.

The first of the newbuilding trio is scheduled to be completed at Turku in 1999. The current contracts are of particular significance as an endorsement of the Azipod concept by the two global market leaders in the cruise shipping domain. Business activities relating to the

Azipod electric propulsion system have been vested in a new company, in which Italian ship- building and engineering group Fincantieri has obtained a 22.5 percent stake, equivalent to

KMYs holding, and leaving ABB Industry as the majority shareholder with a 55 percent interest.

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