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^Mmr.nmMmMni^mwc of garage space and ice class IB compatibility, the vessels will emerge in Finnlines colors next year with a 3,000-lane meter capacity, strengthened and equipped to ice class 1A standard.

The increase in the work value at

AESA is also a factor of its raised stake in the offshore industry. The recent $128 million deal with

Petrobras has helped strengthen its business position in that mar- ket.

The latest project from Brazil calls for the delivery of a floating storage unit (FSU) with a 1.5 mil- lion-barrel oil capacity, intended for connection with a Petrobras floating production unit (FPU) in 1,200-m water depth. AESA has purchased a 1970s-built VLCC for reconstruction as the requisite

FSU at its Cadiz shipyard.

In June, the Cadiz repair and conversion complex redelivered a former Petrobras VLCC to the

Brazilian organization as a 150,000-bpd floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) ves- sel, Petrobras 32.

Most recently, a further recon- struction job was completed at

Petrobras' behest in Cadiz, entail- ing the adaptation of a Russian- built semi-submersible into an

FPU. As Petrobras 26, the unit is to be stationed in nearly 1,000-m water depth in the Campos Basin off Brazil.

Fast Ferry Breakthrough

Drawing on the technical exper- tise honed from years of construct- ing sophisticated naval vessels,

Empresa Nacional Bazan has made an impressive entry into the fast ferry field.

Its range of aluminum monohull designs provided the initial spring- board for a return by the defense contractor to the commercial ves- sel market.

Following its completion of three 43-knot Mestral-class ferries for

South American and Spanish oper- ators, Bazan's San Fernando yard delivered the first of the larger

Alhambra series, the 126-m Silvia

Ana.

Circumspect owner Buquebus has assigned the 38-knot RoRo passenger ship to a new River

Plate route during the southern hemisphere summer season, char- tering her out for Scandinavian duties over the rest of the year.

The Alhambra-type employs a multiple diesel engine plant, con- sisting of six Caterpillar units yielding a total propulsive effect of

October, 1997 51 more than 46,000-bhp through five waterjets.

Project scope is enhanced by the in-house engine manufacturing division, Bazan Motores, which in turn has broadened its potential through a technical alliance with

Caterpillar in the U.S.

Recent shipbuilding production at San Fernando includes work on a 77-m catamaran RoRo passenger ferry type, developed in conjunc- tion with AMD of Australia.

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