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tion. Because subsidies won't be available, German shipyards believe that they must focus on productiv- ity to remain competitive.

As in most other European coun- tries, the number of concerns about building large, slow-running cross- head engines has been reduced dras- tically in recent years. Bremer

Vulkan has the only surviving en- gine works of the once traditional style, within its associated shipyard.

With a license from MAN of

Augsburg dating from the earliest days of the marine diesel engine, they changed to the uniflow-scav- enging Copenhagen design follow- ing the acquisition of Burmeister &

Wain by MAN in the late 1970s.

Until recently, all subsequent pro- duction has been of these, re-styled

MAN B&W models. The engines are supplied, not only for ships built by Bremer Vulkan, but to other yards mainly in Germany. The factory has been working through an im- portant order for 10 29,470bhp 7L80MC engines for a series of large container ships originally ordered by the Soviet Union and shared be- tween the BV and HDW yards. The ships are of a popular size and incor- porate a number of "Ship of the Fu- ture" features, and have all been taken up on charter.

Latterly Bremer Vulkan became joint majority purchasers, with

Dieselmotoren Rostock (DMR) and

Fincantieri of Italy, of the diesel engine activities of Sulzer Bros, and, as co-proprietors of New Sulzer Die- sel, commenced the manufacture of the latest two-series Sulzer RTA engines. Two 16,440bhp 6RTA72 examples have been delivered and four more are on hand for container ships ordered from three German yards, including BV, by DSR Lines of the former German Democratic

Republic. Dieselmotoren Rostock commenced building crosshead en- gines to the original MAN design, but changed to Sulzer in 1989 when orders were received from domestic

DDR yards for RTA58 engines to power Soviet Ro-Lo and Dutch and

German container ships. Recent developments follow the merger of the two Germanys and co-propri- etorship of New Sulzer Diesel, and the latest DMR sales brochure im- plies an increase in manufacturing capacity, and the eventual avail- ability of DMR-Sulzer engines in the full size range from RTA 38 to

RTA84M. DMR has concluded a license agreement with Mitsubishi

Heavy Industries, permitting them to build the range of Mitsubishi VE engines which are making an im- pression in certain areas of the Eu- ropean market, but so far entirely in the form of imports from Japan.

DMR enjoys the connection of an in-house reduction gear factory and two subsidiary propeller makers;

Wismarer Propeller und

Maschinenbau, making control- lable-pitch propellers, thrusters, shafting and stern glands; and

Mecklenburger Matallguss, casting and machining fixed-pitch propel- lers up to 6.5m diameter and 25 tons finished weight. Mecklenburg, inci- dentally, has a technical coopera- tion agreement with noted propel- ler manufacturers, Ostennann of Co-

September, 1992 logne.

Germany has been the strong- hold of the medium-speed diesel engine since the 1950s, as it can claim having the greatest number of manufacturers in Europe, build- ing ranges of engines of their own modern designs, constantly uprating them and introducing new models.

MAN B&W, who reported record turnover, market share and profit figures for the fiscal year 1991/92, have enjoyed success with its latest Container/Reefer vessel "Cap Finisterre" from Flender Werft

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