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Shipbuilding prospects Looking Up each vessel will be replaced by two new MaK diesel engines type 8M552 with Renk Tacke reduction gears.

Sweden's Gotaverken Cityvarvet, now limited to a single floating dock, has had a successful winter in the ferry market. Recent refit work has included three

Stena-owned vessels: the 20,914-grt RoRo vessel Siena

Searider (upgrading and general repairs); the 15,899- grt passenger/car ferry Stena Danica (hull treatment and general repairs); the 10,549-grt passenger/car ferry

Stena Nordica; as well as DFDS' 17,729-grt passenger

RoRo ferry Prince of Scandinavia (hull treatment and general repairs).

As of the first of January, Swedish shiprepair com- p a n y

Gotaverken

Cityvarvet

AB of Goth- enburg has taken over all propeller re- pairs and re- conditioning operations of former repair specialist

Ciserv. The necessary tools and equipment are already installed in the work- shops of Go- taverken, and work is in progress on existing con- tracts. In ad- dition, a co-operation deal has been en- tered into with Lips.

Danish shipbuilding has taken an up- turn in recent years with a number of significant orders. Danyard of Fredrik- shavn won an order from chemical carrier specialist Stolt Nielsen for a series of seven 37,000-dwt double-hulled chemical tank- ers at $90 million per ship. The yard is also building passenger ferries for domestic ferry operator Mols Linien (see MR/EN,

April 1995, page 64), a containership for

Royal Arctic lines, bulk carriers for Russia's

Murmansk Shipping and naval vessels for the Royal Danish Navy.

Copenhagen's Burmeister & Wain has continued on its trend to supply panamax bulk carriers, combination carriers and tankers. The latest order is for a series of three 75,000-dwt bulk carriers for Italy's

Bottiglieri.

Odense Skipsvaerft, which is part of the

AP Moller Group, is currently completing double-hulled VLCCs for both Moller's own fleet and Saudi Arabia's Vela Corp. These tankers are the only such ships built by a

European yard apart from one under con- struction in Spain for a domestic owner.

Shipbuilding activities in Norway cen- ter on two companies — Kvaerner and the

Ulstein Group. Kvaerner has yards in

Floro on the west coast and Kleven, on the island of Ulsteinvik. The Floro yard is busy with a series of five 37,500-dwt double- hulled chemical tankers for Norwegian owner Storli, one to be taken under the ownership of National Chemical Carriers of Saudi Arabia (NCC). Kleven has a wider portfolio, with coastal ferries for

Ofetens, a 10,000-dwt coastal tanker for

Tarntank Rederei, and a $27.3 million research vessel for Reiber Shipping.

Ulstein Group, with a great deal of development underway at the Ulsteinvik shipyard, is currently completing a series of three general cargo vessels for Dutch owner Spliethoff and is also busy with various offshore supply vessels of Ulstein design.

The contract to upgrade the Geco AS- owned, 1,483-dwt research vessel Geco

Beta was awarded to Norwegian yard M&K late last year, and completed in March.

Work involved the extension of the vessel by 50.5 ft. (15.4 m) to make it 297 ft. (90.5 m). A new deck superstructure module was fabricated and installed at M&K's

Bergen facility. Modifications were made to the propulsion system, drive train and aft underbody. New accommodation areas

Wartsila, Cumm ins Finalize Joint Venture Plans

Wtirtsilti and Cummins finalized a joint venture to produce diesel and natural gas engines up to 6,000 hp (4.5 MW). Tim Solso (left), president and CEO of Cummins Engine Co., and Pentti-Juhani Hintikka, presi- dent and CEO of Wartsila Diesel, are shown here in front of the first engine, scheduled for limited pro- duction begining this month. (See MR/EN page 11 of April 1995 issue for full details on the project.) were fitted and other minor repairs and modifi- cations to the vessel were carried out.

Norwegian west coast shiprepair yard

Haugesund Mekaniske Verksted AS (HMV) spe- cializes in both the conventional shipping and offshore repair industry, as well as module build- ing for the offshore industry. Recently the yard had two vessels owned by Stolt Comex Seaway A/

S of Haugesund in for repair. The vessels were the 2,350-dwt Isle of Man-registered diving sup- port vessels Seaway Harrier, which was under- going hull repairs, and Seaway Falcon, for gen- eral upgrading and outfitting for pipelaying.

Also at the yard was the offshore rig Transocean 8, which was undergoing special survey and general repairs.

Finland's largest shipyard, Kvaerner Masa, part of Norway's Kvaerner Group, is one of the most successful shipbuilding yards in the world.

Current orders include a $239.5 million per ship deal with the UAE's Adgas for a series of four large LNG carriers, the first such vessels built outside of Asia for some time. The vessels will be of the Moss Rosenburg cargo containment de- sign, and are for delivery in 1996 and 1997.

The yard is also one of the most successful cruise ship builders, with orders from Royal

Caribbean for two ships, Carnival Cruise Lines for four ships, Japan's NYK for one ship and

Deutsche Seereederi for two ships.

It appears that Finland's Nemarc, which is a joint venture company between Neste and the shipbuilder Kvaerner Masa, is to convert an- other two of its fleet of tankers to offshore shuttle tankers, suitable for loading off Murmansk in

Russia. Two ships, the Uikku and the Lunni, have already been completed at Kvaerner Masa's

Turku yard, with the two new contracts being for the Sotka and the Tiira.

Another Finnish shipbuilding facility is

Finnyards, which is an amalgamation of Rauma-

Repola and Hollming. Finnyards' claim to fame at present is its order from Stena AB for a series of three catamaran-type fast ferries for opera- tion in Scandinavia and the U.K. Apart from this project — which is the largest of its type in northern Europe — Finnyards is currently build- ing a pair of passenger/car ferries for Germany's

TT Line and a 13,200-dwt bulk carrier for a domestic owner. Finland's largest repair com- pany, Turku Ship Repair Yard, has two facilities, at Turku and Naantali, where the graving dock is big enough for the many super passenger/car ferries utilized on the Sweden/Finland service.

The Turku yard was recently carrying out modifications to the new icebreaker/offshore sup- ply vessel Nordica, which is the second such vessel built by Finnyards for use as an icebreaker during the winter months and as an offshore supply vessel during the summer for Ugland.

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