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SCANDINAVIAN MARITIME REVIEW

SCANDINAVIA...The Ferry Business Proving Ground

May 1997 Circle 203 on Reader Service Card 22 arrangements has been on rapidi- ty of RoRo throughput, since the shipping service forms an integral part of the E4 trans-European highway.

The ferries are each laid out for approximately 900 passengers, with a separate catering facility for freight drivers. Provision has been made for the transport of rail by David Tincley, technical editor

While major developments in

Denmark's transportation infra- structure as expressed in the

Oresund and Great Belt fixed-link projects pose new challenges to the waterborne mode, ferry com- panies have taken steps to raise the efficiency of other key ele- ments of the system.

For the Vogelfluglinie (Birdflight) crossing between

Rodby and Puttgarden, the

Danish and German operating partners are investing heavily in tonnage for a route which forms an essential part of the transport chain linking Copenhagen and

Hamburg. It thereby acts as a conduit for passenger and freight movements between Scandinavia and continental Europe as a whole. Four new double-ended ships incorporating a novel propulsion concept, and designed

Scandinavia is fertile ground for investment and technological progression in the ferry sector, as concerns both fast-going designs and conventional hull forms •••••••••••••••••••a* as multi-role ferries for passen- gers, rail and road vehicles, are due to be phased into the service this year.

Two vessels are under construc- tion by Orskovs Staalskibsvaerft in Jutland for DSB Rederi, the shipping arm of Danish State

Railways, and two are in hand in the Netherlands at Van der

Giessen-de Noord for Deutsche

Fahrgesellschaft Ostsee (DFO), a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn.

Although the Danish and German designs differ in a number of respects, the main dimensions are similar at approximately 466 x 82 ft. (142 x 25 m), and a common concept has been applied. The diesel-electric propulsion system employs four contra-rotating, azimuthing thrusters, two at each end of the hull, for good maneu- verability, directional stability and a speed of 18.5 knots. The com- plete emphasis in the access wagons and vehicles on the main deck, while an upper deck is dedi- cated to cars.

The visors form part of the struc- ture at both ends of each drive-

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