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STN Atlas Outfits Costa Crociere's

New Flagship

Built by Bremer Vulkan,

Costa Crociere's new 74,000-ft. (22,555-m) flagship, Costa

Victoria, began service in the

Mediterranean at the end of

July. At 853 ft. (260 m) long, the vessel is capable of carry- ing 2,250 passengers and 800 crew. STN Atlas Elektronik assumed project management for all electronic and electrical equipment, with responsibility for the design and installation of a proprietary Ship Control

Center (SCC) which combines all key automation, communi- cations, navigation, engine control and ship management functions.

The navigation sub-unit, an

Atlas

NACOS 45-2 sys- tem, fea- tures automatic track control and route planning functions, in addition to combined radar and ECDIS facilities.

STN Atlas Elektronik was also responsible for the ship's power generation and distrib- ution systems, as well as all cabling requirements in addi- tion to safety and GMDSS equipment.

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European area heats up, especially from former Eastern

European nations. Both yards are, however, experiencing fairly successful times.

In the future, all business activities at Hamburg's B+V will be taken over by two newly formed companies — Blohm + Voss

GmbH and Blohm + Voss Industrie GmbH — resulting in a more customer-related effect. Blohm + Voss GmbH will take over all yard activities related to ship repair, conversions, shipbuilding of commercial and naval vessels, marine equipment and consult- ing. Blohm + Voss Industrie GmbH continues with all activities of gen- eral mechanical engineering, ener- gy, environmental and army defense technology, as well as plans and components for marine appli- cations. The detachment of busi- ness operations has been effected under the provisions of the German transformation law (Umwandlungsgesetz) and with succession in title from the former

Blohm + Voss AG, which has been renamed Blohm + Voss Holding AG, and is now a holding company with- out operational functions.

Managing Directors at Blohm +

Voss GmbH will be Hervert von

Nitzch, chairman; Peter

Fuhrmann; Udo Hutten; and

Helmut Nadler. Managing

Directors at Blohm + Voss

Industrie GmbH are Dieter

Roschmann, chairman; Peter

Fuhrmann; and Udo Hutten.

B+V has also announced its plans to shed an additional 800 to 850 jobs in a bid to increase profits and secure the future of the Hamburg- based yard. The cuts will leave the yard with an estimated workforce of 1,900, compared with 3,373 employees at the end of last

September.

The company also announced that it will merge the B+V ship repair sector with its subsidiary Barthels & Luders, also based in Hamburg, while at the same time cutting capacity. This alone will cost almost 500 jobs. Boiler production and other small activities will be dropped, while central service activities will be earmarked to indi- vidual production units, or will be

Flender Werft Delivers

Santa Giovanna

Flender Werft of Liibeck delivered its latest ship, new- building No. 661, Santa Giovanna, to Hamburg shipowner Claus-Peter Offen. On the same day, the ship went into a three-year charter contract with an option for three additional years with Messrs. Nedlloyd.

Accordingly, the vessel's name was changed to Nedlloyd

Amazonas.

The 29,700-dwt containership is the first of a series of five ships of the Flender 2000T type. It measures 598 x 97.7 x 51 ft. (182.2 x 29.8 x 15.6 m) with a 37.9-ft. (11.6- m) draft. The shipped was classed by Germanischer

Lloyd.

The vessel is powered by a crosshead engine, the longstroke MAN B&W 6S60 MC, which has a rating of 12,240 kW at 105 rpm.

In order to reduce the number of drydocking proce- dures, the ship has obtained the class notation "IW," meaning that classification inspection of the underwa- ter hull can be carried out on the vessel afloat water."

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B+V added that the new structure will help the company to achieve sales of $745.3 million, compared with parent company

Blohm + Voss revenues of $1.1 billion in the 1994/95 business year, and group sales of $ 1.2 million. It recorded a pre-tax loss of $31.4 million last year, following a loss of 16.9 million in 1994.

The yard's main reason for last year's loss was due to the ship repair sector, where orders decreased in the wake of weakening prices due to the strong deutschmark, especially against Polish and U.K. currencies. Income this year compared with last was vir- tually halved.

Despite the uncertainty such a reorganization program has on the market, the yard has recently been fairly busy, especially in the containership market. Ships recently in the yard include P&O

Containers' Tokyo Bay, Hapag

Lloyd's Bremen Express, Dresden

Express' DSR-Senator and Isla de la Plata and ABC's bulk carrier

Cornells Verolme.

Lloyd Werft, part of the Bremer

Vulkan Group, has also won some significant contracts in recent weeks. The yard won the Stena

Felicity refit from Stena Line, then the refit of Victoria from

P&O Cruises, and the Table Bay refit from P&O Containers.

Hamburg's Hamburg-Sud, one of

Germany's leading shipowners, has also showed faith in the

German shipyard, with a contract to carry out major accommodation modifications onboard the recent- ly purchased 42,221-dwt contain- ership New York Express, which was renamed Cap Roca after the work was completed.

The largest contract won by

Lloyd Werft this year was the $8- million contract to convert pas- senger/car ferry Stena Jutlandica from a Scandinavian service ship to a cross channel ferry. The con- tract, which was completed dur- ing August, involved the complete refit of the two passenger decks with installation of fast food restaurants and shopping facili- ties to bring the ship online with other ferries operating on this m 48 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News