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Since the stern of the DAT is designed to break the ice, and with the use of a "pulling" Azipod propulsor, it is claimed that such a tanker could reach the required

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Helsinki-based ABB Marine, key exponent of variable I propulsion drives, has landed contract from a New Zealand fer newbuilding project in Spain.

The company's Sami Megastt

PWM (pulse width modulated) sys tem has been specified for the rai vehicle and passenger ferry award ed by TranzRail to the Astilleroi

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Barreras yard in Vigo. Each of the vessel's two propellers will be pow- ered by two 2.6-MW Sami

Megastar drives through twin- input/single-output reduction gearing.

The two Danish-owned, double- ended ferries under construction in the Orskov yard in Frederikshavn for the Rody/Puttgarden route also incorporate PWM technology to power four 3-MW Contaz propul- sor s.

ABB will also supply electric propulsion and power plants for the 130,000-gt Project Eagle liners for RCI, distinguished by the adop- tion of three 14-MW, cycloconvert- er-controlled Azipod propulsion units. Two five-MW, Sami

Megastro PWM-controlled Azipods are also to be installed in the multi-purpose icebreaker and off- shore constuction vessel ordered at

Finnyards by the Finnish mar- itime authorities.

Finnyards

Having demonstrated an inher- ent organizational as well as tech- nical flexibility by undertaking the world's largest-ever aluminum fast ferry project, Finnyards has subse- quently responded to new opportu- nities in the offshore and ice- strengthened vessel sectors.

Taking on the trio of giant HSS 1500 catamaran RoRo ferries for

Stena Line was one of the sternest tests of any shipbuilder, and the execution of the contract, following the April handover of third-of-class

Stena Discovery, has been at some cost to Finnyards' financial results.

But the project has equipped the

Rauma company for further, poten- tially fruitful engagement in the field, in which it must now rank as one of a world elite.

It has formulated a range of high- speed designs, embracing mono- hull as well as catamaran propos- als, applying the know-how in pro-

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