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SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION casinos as well as restaurants, bars and executive suites. In addi- tion to the major steel work, the vessel will be upgraded to meet the latest SOLAS regulations as well as DNV's strict class rules for cruise vessels. It is expected that the vessel will be at the yard for four to five months, with the scheduled date of re-delivery set for January 3, 1998.

Meanwhile, Belfast's Harland &

Wolff's (H&W) Ship Repair &

Marine Services Division, and

Mivan Marine, are to fly a team to

Florida to make an early start on the first major cruise ship contract won by the joint venture, estab- lished earlier this year.

The team will board P&O

Cruises' Arcadia at Fort

Lauderdale and start work afloat during its voyage back to Belfast.

The ship is expected to arrive at

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H&W's yard by the end of this month and will undergo a major refit, enhancing its facilities for the U.K. passenger market. Other work to be carried out by H&W includes drydocking and general repairs (mechanical overhaul and survey, as well as a complete hull cleaning and painting).

Mivan Marine has been contract- ed to carry out major refurbish- ment of the public areas and cab- ins, including the creation of new public spaces, and the upgrading of other public areas.

Arcadia is expected to leave

Belfast in early December, com- mencing her cruise program with a 12-night Christmas cruise, fol- lowed by a maiden three-month world cruise, which is scheduled to leave Southampton on January 5, 1998.

Swedish ferry owner Gotland AB has placed a two-ship order with

Bremerhaven's Lloyd Werft to upgrade and refit the two ferries, 23,775-grt Stena Felicity, which is to return to its original name,

Visby; and 16,829-grt Sally Star, which will be renamed Thjelvar.

Both vessels, which will also be upgraded to the new SOLAS regu- lations, will be used on the

Gotland/mainland Sweden service.

It has also been announced that when Lloyd Werft completes the upgrading and lengthening of the 39,213-grt cruise vessels

Windward and Dreamward between January 15 and May 12, 1998, they will be renamed

Norwegian Wind and Norwegian

Dream, respectively.

The two new mid-body sections have been sub-contracted (under guarantee) to Schichau Seebeck

Werft, despite this yard being bankrupt under the recent Bremer

Vulkan closure.

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Autronica 13

Astilleros Espanoles 14

Caterpillar 15

DNV 6

Gdansk Shiprepair Yard (Rementowa) 17

Halter Marine 18

Hitachi Zosen 9

Jurong Shipyard 20

Mitsui Ocean Development 21

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 22

Ulstein 23

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