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Humboldt Express (continued from page 27) with a capacity of 700 TEU. The first vessel built with this unique afterbody was a 502-TEU contain- ership constructed at the Heinrich

Brand Shipyard in Oldenburg, West

Germany. An ice class cargoliner is being built at the same shipyard, and several other vessels that will have the asymmetric stern are now being constructed or programmed for German owners.

Though the asymmetric stern is slightly more complex and therefore a little more expensive to construct, the extra cost of the ship is recov- ered rapidly in fuel savings. As international shipowners become increasingly aware of the German development, the asymmetric stern may well become as common as the bulbous bow is today. Development work on the new stern design has taken place at the Hamburg model basin over the past 10 years, but it is only the recent steep rise in fuel costs that has brought its advan- tages home to German shipowners.

Electric power for the Hapag-

Lloyd ships is provided by Fuji equipment—two 1,500-kw diesel generators, one 2,200-kw generator, and one 115-kw emergency genera- tor. Steam generation is by an Aal- borg oil-fired boiler and an exhaust gas boiler. Two ballast pumps each

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HUMBOLDT EXPRESS

Major Suppliers

Main engine Hyundai/B&W

M.E. remote controls . . . . B.B.C.

Propeller . . Ostermann

Shafting . . Kobe Steel

Oil-fired boiler . . . Aalborg

Generators Fuji

Steering gear . . . .Hatlapa

Bow thruster Lips

Radars (2) . .Krupp Atlas

Satellite navigator . . . . . Magnavox

Gyrocompass/autopilot . . . Anschutz

Weather facsimile . . . .... Furuno

Main radio & VHF . . . . . . Hagenuk

Sewage treatement plant . . Sasakura

Windlasses/winches . . .... Broehl

Air conditioning plant . . . Hi-Press

Cargo crane Tsuji/Liebherr

Hatch covers . . MacGregor

Reefer plant .... Sabroe

Container cooling . . . G&H Montage

Purifiers . . . Westfalia

Plate coolers .... Nagase/Alfa Laval

F.W. generator . . . Sasakura

Switchboards . . . Terasaki

Valve remote controls .... Plieger

Motor starters . . . Terasaki

Coatings .... Duncker, International

Mobil

Lifeboats . . . Hattecke

KIHU

Wartsila-Turku

The Turku Shipyards of Oy

Wartsila ab in Finland recently de- livered the 19,999-dwt products tanker Kihu to Neste Oy, the na- tional oil company of Finland. Less than a year elapsed between her keel laying and delivery. The ship is classed by Lloyd's Register of Ship- continued on page 32)

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