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ARENDALSVARVET

GOTEBORGSVARVET

ORESUNDSVARVET

Yards of the Gotaverken Group

GOTAVERKEN

GOTEBORG SWEDEN

Indoor shipbuilding. Large sections, some weighing 120 tons, are prefabricated in this new hall of over 100,000 sq. ft. A specially designed truck moves welded sections from hall to slipway.

A 100,000-ton OBO ship nears completion. The hull has been assembled from the prefabricated sections welded indoors. This method of construction cuts ship's time on the slipway by half.

This self-propelling truck, with lifting platform and 48 self-aligning wheels worked by hydraulic power, is the largest of its kind in Sweden. It moves 150-ton loads from prefabrication hall to slipway.

Modern Oresund Shipyard

New Prefabrication Hall for 100,000-ton Ships

Production is highly mechanized at the duced by efficient heating and ventilating Tankers, bulk carriers and freighters, refri-

Oresund Yard and the prefabrication prin- systems. The improved working conditions gerated cargo vessels, container ships and ciple fully utilized in the new hall. The hall are reflected in the higher standard of pro- ships of other types are built at the Oresund is used for welding, and large hull-sections duction. Today, modern Oresund Shipyard Yard. On order are some 15 ships totalling are also built indoors. The hall tempera- builds still better ships. approximately 1,100,000 tons. About 70 ture is controlled and welding smoke re- percent of this tonnage is for export.

GOTAVERKEN AMERICAN CORPORATION, 39 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10006. Telephone: HA 5-5530-1. Telex: MNY 420181 New York. T.A.: Gotaverken, Newyork.

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