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EUROPORT '97 — BENELUX REVIEW

Fish factory trawler

Main particulars

Length, o.a ,414 ft. (126.2 m)

Breadth, moulded 390.4 ft. (119 m)

Depth maindeck . . 36.2 ft. (11.2 m)

Speed 17.4 knots

Heavy fuel oil . . . 1,550 t

Marine diesel oil 395 t

Fresh water 115 t

Ballast 835 t

Verolme Heusden is currently building two dredgers for HAM and Westminster Dredging, and has recently won a third order for a dredger, this time from Boskalis.

Niestern Sander, which also recently increased its ship repair capability by buying a second hand floating dock, has also recently received a newbuilding order in the form of a 8,230-tanker for

Petromarine.

One of the most interesting aspects of Dutch shipbuilding is the number of small yards in oper- ation along the Westdeep Canal outside Groningen in the northern region of the country. Yards in operation along this canal include

Van Diepen, which has recently won an order for two 5,000-dwt general cargo vessels from

Wagenborg and a 3,173-dwt spe- cialized livestock carrier from

Vroon; Bodewes, Bodewes

Volharding, both of which are building long series of small bulk carriers; Ferus Smit, with a long series of bulk carriers for

Wagenborg; and Pattje, which has a series of four 4,250-dwt bulk car- riers on order from Tecmarine

Lines in the U.S.

The ship repair industry, espe- cially in Rotterdam, has increased

One of the MSC fleet of containerships in

Antwerp Shiprepairers. in volume during recent months.

Following a fairly busy period in the conventional ship repair indus- try during July at Verolme Botlek, when two of the North Sea's largest shuttle tankers were repaired — Knutsen OAS' 113,131- dwt Tove Knutsen and Petroleum

Shipping's 87,500-dwt Aberdeen — the Rotterdam yard has experi- enced a fairly quiet period.

However, the offshore side of the yard's activities is very busy with two major projects currently underway and another booked.

The two projects currently in the yard are the semi-submersible rig

Petrobras XXIII, which is being converted to a dynamically posi- tioned (deep water) rig, and the jack-up rig Noble Al White, which is undergoing the installation of (Continued on page 51)

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