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Shipbuilder

Vessel name

Vessel type

Owner/ operator

Hitachi Zosen

Singapore Ltd.

Clipper Stamford

Multi-purpose carrier

HSH Maritime merger of the shiprepair and ship- building operations of HZSL and

Keppel Corporation into Keppel

Hitachi Zosen will give the alliance extra commercial clout.

Commissioned in October as the first of four newbuilds firmly com- mitted from the Singaporean yard, the American Bureau of

Shipping-classed Clipper

Stamford has been deliv- ered to locally-based Hai

Sun Hup's HSH Maritime.

Contractual interests involved in the current series include the Clipper (Continued on page 65)

The concept of a standard, gen- eral purpose cargo carrier designed for economical, volume production has found new expres- sion in a program implemented at

Hitachi Zosen Singapore (HZSL).

The 20,370-dwt Clipper

Stamford has given first form to a project which provides the market with a true 'maid of all work', maintaining the versatility and competitiveness of an earlier gen- eration of multi-purpose traders, but thoroughly updated in configu- ration and technology.

Design progression through the range of standard dry cargo vessel types over the past three decades has seen an increasing orientation to hold and hatch moduling for freight in containerized and uni- tized mode, brought to an impres- sive new stage in the Stamford class. Its bloodline is thorough- bred, in that the development work undertaken by the

Singaporean shipyard included input from consultancy firm

Algoship International, closely linked with the Canadian firm G T

R Campbell.

Campbell is a master in the art of standard ship design, the com- pany's craft having been reflected in some 300 vessels of the F fami- ly, including the Freedom, Fortune and Friendship types, built between the mid 1960s and mid 1980s. Most recently, it has con- tributed to the development of the 29,000-dwt Fantasy series pro- duced in China by Dalian

Shipyard.

In embarking on the latest ini- tiative, HZSL saw particular scope for the Stamford as a potential replacement for F-class vessels, some 200 of which have already seen 15 or more years' service, and as a competitively-priced successor to other types.

Previously best known for its shiprepair activities, the

Singaporean yard's confidence in the design and targeting of ship construction as a core business led it to extend its 417 ft. x 131.2 ft. (127 x 40m) slipway to 623 ft. x 131.2 ft. (190 x 40 m). The planned

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