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improved and its field of deploy ment enlarged to include every- thing from ships to power plants, road and rail.

The first ship with a two-stroke diesel engine was the M/S

Amerika, which was delivered to the East Asiatic Company in 1930.

B&W soon became a licenser of diesel engines built according to company specifications, with the first license contract signed in 1910.

Before 1960, the majority of licensees were European. This changed in the 1970s and 1980s when large parts of the shipbuild- ing and engine production industry moved to Japan, and later to Korea and China. Currently, more than 80 percent of engines built accord- ing to MAN B&W Diesel specifica- tions are built in East Asia.

MAI Completes Cruise Ship

Projects

Marine Accommodations, Inc. (MAI), exclusive distributor of BU-

IL Industries BIP accommodation systems, was recently involved in the modular panel construction and turnkey installation on cruise ships Queen of the West and Pacific

Warrior. The BIP system is com- prised of joiner bulkhead liner par- titions, ceilings, A, B and C-class doors and hardware, floating floors, pre-fabricated bathroom units, furniture, galley and laun- dry equipment, accessories and

CAD engineering. In addition,

MAI's interiors division, Marine

Accommodations Interiors (MA

Interiors), has completed the reno- vation of the main dining room, gift shop, galley decking and cabin doors onboard Royal Caribbean's

Song of America, and has been awarded a contract from Clipper

Cruise Line to perform cabin upgrades onboard Nantucket

Clipper and York Town Clipper.

MAI will also supply and install complete joiner packages com- prised of joiner bulkheads, ceilings, doors and pre-fabricated bathroom modules in Royal Caribbean's

Sovereign of the Seas and

Grandeur of the Seas. MA

Interiors is currently scheduled to complete work on 11 cruise ships in 1998.

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Carnival Affiliate Signs

Contract With Kvaerner

Carnival Corp. affiliate Costa

Crociere SpA has signed an agree- ment with Kvaerner Masa-Yards for the construction of an 82,000-gt cruise ship. The estimated cost of the 2,100-passenger vessel is $390 million. The new vessel will be the eighth in the Costa fleet, which is jointly owned by Carnival and

Airtours pic. In addition to its equity interests in Costa Cruises,

Seabourn Cruise Line and Airtours pic, Carnival Corp. is comprised of

Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland

America Line and Windstar

Cruises. Combined, Carnival

Cruise Lines and Holland America have six new ships slated for deliv- ery over the next three years — 101,000-ton Carnival Triumph and sistership Carnival Victory are scheduled to enter service in 1999 and 2000, respectively; Carnival 70,000-ton SuperLiners Elation and Paradise are currently under construction and scheduled to debut in March and November 1998, respectively; and Holland

America Line has two 65,000-ton cruise ships on order, both sched- uled for delivery in 1999.

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