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service. There was also work to be com- pleted on the vessel's loading and dis- charging system.

The vessel arrived in Bremerhaven during mid-June and the conversion took approximately six weeks. The ves- sel has now entered the Dover/Calais service under its new name, Stena

Emporeur.

Lloyd Werft has also been awarded a contract for the life extension of four containerships owned by Safmarine, a large South African shipping line. The contract, which cost approximately $28 million, will involve life extension onboard the 3,000-TEU containerships

Waterberg, Winterberg, Sederberg and

Helderberg. Work on the four 50,000- dwt vessels will include the replacement of eight generator sets, removal and extensive repair to 39 hatch covers and the upgrading of the ballast tanks. Safmarine is upgrading the speed of the vessels as well as their ability to carry larger num- bers of 40-ft. (12.2-m) containers. Built between 1978 and 1981, the vessels are scheduled to be drydocked between August and next January.

Another yard actively involved in the conversion industry is

Meyer Werft, Papenburg, more recognized as a shipbuilder, and winner of the contract to convert vehicle carrier Ocean Highway, which was purchased by Kuwait Livestock Transport & Trading

Co. (KLLT) for approximately $4 million, to a specialized sheep carrier for KLTTs Australian/Middle East service. The vessel is to be renamed Al Mesilah.

Meyer Werft, which over the years has reportedly converted 25 vessels to this type of livestock carrier, won the contract against competition from Bahrain's ASRY and a number of Southeast

Asian and Far Eastern shipyards. The conversion project will take approximately 11 months to complete, with some work being subcontracted to a shipyard in Kleipeda, Lithuania, and

Bremerhaven's Motoren werke Bremerhaven (MBW). All final outfitting work will be carried out in the Papenburg shipyard.

MAN B&W continues to enjoy its successful market niche, especially in the low speed market; with one latest contract involving a series of 650-TEU containerships building at

Singapore's Jurong Shipyard Ltd. for NOL. Each vessel will have a seven-cylinder S42MC two stroke unit as the main propulsion unit.

MAN B&W lost the recent P&O Containers contract (two 6,600-TEU ships) to Sulzer, although among a long list of containership new- building orders, the German engine com- pany has contract for the 5,200-TEU ships building in Kawasaki Heavy

Industries (KHI) for COSCO; the series of nine 6,200-TEU ships building for A.P

Moller at Odense Skibsvaerft, Denmark; the 4,400-TEU ships building for Hapag

Lloyd in Mitsui Shipbuilding &

Engineering (MSE); some of the 4,000+

TEU ships building in South Korea for

Hanjin; and all of the 3,800-TEU ships building in Japan for United Arab

Shipping Co. (UASC).

News from the diesel engine manufac- turing industry includes the continuing cooperation between Germany's MTU and the U.S.' Detroit Diesel Corp. (DDC).

In the U.K., sales and distribution of

MTU units will be taken over by Mitchell, the DDC agent, with MTU and DDC as individual offices retain- ing their responsibilities while striving to set up a joint

MTU/DDC office. Meanwhile, in Norway, Bemer Larsen, which is the established DDC office, has been taken over by Bartle O

Steen, the existing MTU agent. All reorganizations are expect- ed to be completed by the end of this year. This new cooperation is expected to announce two new designs at the forthcoming

SMM exhibition in Hamburg. These will be the 2000 series (200-1,343 kW) and the 4000 series (665-2,720 kW).

U.S. company Caterpillar is also slated to become involved in the German diesel engine manufacturing industry with the takeover of medium speed specialist MaK Maschinnenbau, Keil, from ownership of the massive Krupp Group. A letter of intent for the takeover to proceed has already been signed.

Diesel Marine International Group (DMI), supplier and re-con- ditioner of critical components for two and four-stroke marine diesel engines, has added a new dimension to its marine service with the acquisition of the Drechsler group of companies in

Hamburg. Drechsler is a long-established marine service com- pany based in Hamburg, offering a wide range of repair and re- conditioning services both onboard ships and in its workshops.

DMI's customers worldwide, with ships trading to Northern

Europe, now have access through the DMI marketing operation to a comprehensive range of repair services from DMI (Drechsler) GmbH.

One of the largest orders won this year by diesel engine man- ufacturer Deutz/MWM involved the supply of CODAD plants

SMM '96 Announces

Record Participation

SMM '96, scheduled to take place

October 1-5 in Hamburg, Germany, has attracted more than 1,000 exhibitors from 37 countries. It is billed as a record show, as 1994, in comparison, drew 829 exhibitors from 31 countries.

After Germany, Dutch firms form the second-largest contingent at SMM '96, followed by the U.S., Norway, Great

Britain and Finland.

The U.S., as has been widely publicized, is the official partner country of SMM '96, and will have its own pavilion featuring 67 firms.

Lindenau Works On Innovative Double Hull Tanker

In May, Lindenau GmbH launched new- building S240, a 32,250-dwt double hull tanker with Ice Class E2 capability.

Ordered by Partenreederei, the ship is reportedly the largest ever designed and built at Lindenau, and the largest double hull tanker which will sail under the

German flag.

Aside from its double skin, the tanker optimizes safety, as all of its cargo tanks achieved class notation COLL 2. All cargo tanks are coated with Camkote

MX. All cargo pipes, cargo pumps, fit- tings in the cargo tanks and cargo valves are made of stainless steel.

Due for delivery later this month, the ship measures 583 x 92 x 55 ft. (177.8 x 28 x 16.8 m), and has a cargo volume of approximately 38,600-cu.-m. The vessel is designed for unlimited trade according to class requirements, specifically for the transport of crude oil and oil products, limited by the coating resistance list and the scope of supply specified.

The vessel is powered by a MAN 6L 58/64 — which produces 8,340 kW at 428 rpm — driving a variable pitch, Ni-Al-

Bronze, four-blade propeller. The vessel achieved a speed — under trial, at design draft and with a main engine output of about 6,600 kW — of about 14.7 knots.

For more information from Lindenau

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