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Finnyards Launches

French Ferry

A RoRo/passenger vessel ordered by French owner Compagnie

Meridionale de Navigation (CMN), of

Marseille, was launched at the Rauma,

Finland, shipyard of Finnyards, Ltd.

The contract between CMN and

Finnyards was signed in January 1992 and the ferry will be christened at the end of June 1993 in the Mediter- ranean after delivery.

The vessel is scheduled to go into regular service under between the

French mainland and the island of

Corsica. CMN carries cargo and pas- sengers from the French mainland to

Corsica and north Africa, and also carries freight in the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas.

The ship will be French-flagged and is 541.3-foot long, 95 feet in breadth and has a draft of 23.9 feet. Her deadweight as a passenger vessel is 6,200 dwt and as a cargo vessel 9,000 dwt. Four main engines will generate a total of 20,000 kW and a speed of 19 knots.

Cargo space consists of 2,200 lane meters of vehicle parking space and the ferry has accommodations for 190 passengers, as well as a restaurant, lounges, game room and shops.

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Neste Oy Takes Delivery

Of Second Special Tanker

Built By Kvaerner Masa

A new double-hulled shuttle tanker built to Lloyd Register class by

Finland's Kvaerner Masa-Yards'

Turku New Shipyard has been deliv- ered to its owners, Neste Oy Shipping, at a ceremony at the yard. The 91,000- dwt Natura is the second of two spe- cial tankers built by the yard for

Neste Oy, with the first vessel, the

Futura, having been delivered by the yard in August last year.

Natura is strengthened to LR Ice

Class 1C standard, meaning that it can operate in first year ice up to approximately 1.3 feet thick. The vessel also has a double bottom and double sides extending to a minimum of 6.6 feet.

The tanker is 795.3 feet long, has a beam of 131.2 feet and a 47.6-foot draft. She has been specially de- signed to carry crude oil from offshore loading stations in the North Sea to

Neste Oy's refineries in Finland. The

Natura is equipped with a bow load- ing system and a dynamic positioning system for station keeping during load- ing operations. The vessel is able to maintain position and continue load- ing in winds up to Beaufort scale 10.

Bridge design and an integrated navigation system allow for naviga- tion in the Finnish archipelago. For station keeping the Natura is equipped with three transverse thrusters, two in the bow and one at the stern, which

March, 1993 are used in conjunction with its pro- pulsion machinery and high lift type rudder. The ship has a special bow loading and DP control room on the forecastle deck. This is equipped with a duplex DP control unit, with an- other DP control unit located on the navigation bridge. There are also three different position reference sys- tems: HPR (hydroacoustic position reference) and two microwave sys- tems. To allow flexible operation,

Natura's design incorporates a center line half-height wash bulkhead to safe- guard against the possibility of high impact forces resulting from rolling motions at fill levels below 50 percent.

Further versatility is provided by the ship's cargo system of electric deepwell pumps serving each of the seven cargo tanks. The ship's main propulsion consists of two, medium- speed Wartsila Vasa 6R46 diesel en- gines driving a single controllable pitch propeller to a service speed of 14 knots.

Four Wartsila Vasa 8R 22/26 auxil- iary engines are also fitted.

For information about Kvaerner

Masa-Yard's Turku New Shipyard,

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Westinghouse Plans For

New Diesel Engine

Assembly, Test Facility

Westinghouse Marine Division offi- cials in Sunnyvale, Calif., announced plans for a 200,000-square-foot diesel marine propulsion assembly and test facility in New Orleans, La. Marine

Division Diesel Propulsion Manager

Jack Orme said the Louisiana loca- tion was chosen following a compre- hensive site selection process.

The new facility, being touted by

Westinghouse as the most modern marine diesel assembly and test cen- ter in the world, gives the manufac- turer excellent access to U.S. ship- yards. The facility, located on a 30- acre site six miles from New Orleans on a barge canal off the Intercoastal

Waterway, makes it possible for com- plete low-speed and medium-speed diesel engines to be delivered by barge directly to shipyards, without the need for extensive disassembly.

Westinghouse intends to manu- facture low- and medium-speed diesel

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