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French Yard Delivers Paglia Orba, 544-Ft. RoRo Ferry

Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre (ACH) recently delivered the RoRo passenger vesselPag/ia Orba to her owner, Societe Nationale Maritime

Corse-Mediterranee (SNCM). Her keel was laid on July 6,1992 and she was launched on June 3,1993. The date of delivery was March 15,1994.

She will be able to accommodate 200 passengers, with a high decora- tion standard, and will mainly sail between Marseilles and Bastia (Corsica). The Paglia Orba derives its name from a mountain in Corsica.

The builder says the ship's struc- ture is extremely complex due to the absence of interior support systems inside the garages, which would have been detrimental for commer- cial purposes, and also due to the extreme loads and the considerable static loads and dynamic stresses at play on the heavy seas. The distri- bution of passenger quarters was developed in close cooperation with

SNCM, and the visual result is a streamlined silhouette of the vessel, the vertical volume being visible midships.

The ship has an overall length of 544 ft. (165.8 m), a width of 95 ft. (29 m) and a 7,644-ft. (2,330-m) roll lane length, and very high overhead clearance for vehicles, particularly at access doors. The design of the passenger doors will reportedly en- able high-speed loading and unload- ing, the internal access ramp for the upper garage deck is more than 40 percent of the total vessel length

Propulsion is provided by four 4,930 kW, medium-speed Wartsila

Vasa 16 V 32 DF diesel engines connected through two shaftlines to a double input/single output Maag gearbox with 1,600 kW PTO, then to two KaMeWa cp propellers. The configuration gave the vessel a 20- knot trial speed, and a 19-knot cruis- ing speed. Wartsila Vasa also pro- vides the electrical power genera- tion with three 1,180 kW gensets using Wartsila's 4 R 32 DF model.

Paglia Orba is fully automated as per AUT-PORT CNC 1 BUREAU

VERITAS mark, conforms to the latest safety rules, and is fitted with an ACH two-fin anti-rolling stabi- lizer, which the builder says are the largest ever built in the world.

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Paglia Orba Equipment List

Main engines Wartsila Vasa

Gensets Wartsila Vasa

Gearboxes Maag

Propellers KaMeWa

New York SNAME Section

Sponsors Symposium

The New York Metropolitan Sec- tion of the Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), in conjunction with the

Institute ofMarine Engineers (IME), the American Society of Naval En- gineers (ASNE), the Society ofMa- rine Consultants and the Connecti- cut Maritime Association will be sponsoring a ship Operations, Man- agement and Economics Symposium on May 12, 1994 at the U.S. Mer- chant Marine Academy, Kings Point,

N.Y. Paper topics will include: Navy,

MSC, U.S. Coast Guard and NOAA

Operations, Design and Construc- tion; Maintenance and Repair;

Environmental Issues; Manage- ment and Operations; and Regula- tor classification issues.

The luncheon keynote speaker will be Adm. Albert Herberger, the Maritime Administrator of the

U.S. Department of Transportation, and Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA) chairman John J. Stocker will present a paper called The Task

Before Us: The Transition of Ameri- can Shipyards to the Global Mar- ket.

For more information on the event, contact: Lcdr. Kevin

Carpentier, U.S. Coast Guard,

MLC Atlantic (VR), Building 400M,

Room 305, Governors Island, N.Y. 10004.

Alabama Shipyard

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For Penn Maritime

Alabama Shipyard has signed a contract with Penn Maritime, Inc. of Stamford, Conn., to build two 460-foot (140-m) by 72-foot (22-m) by 36-foot (11-m), 100,000-barrel oil tank barges. The first vessel will be delivered in the first quarter, and the second vessel in the second quar- ter of 1995.

The barges are double skin with ship-shape bow and deep notch stern arranged for the "Intercon Coupler" system. They will be constructed to

American Bureau of Shipping Mal- tese Cross A1 Oil Tank Barge speci- fications —unmanned, unrestricted ocean service, and in compliance with OPA '90.

The barges will be equipped with thermal oil heating for the carriage of asphalt products.

Schuller & Allan, Inc. of Hous- ton, Texas, are the naval architects for this project.

Penn Maritime, in conjunction with Morania Oil Tanker Corp. is reportedly the largest carrier of as- phalt products in the U.S.

Alabama Shipyard, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atlan- tic Marine Holding Company, Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla.

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