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for two 125,000 dwt shuttle and by its location 50 miles inland with its one million dwt capacity particular effect through the early tankers to AESA and the Sestao on the River Guadalquivir. Its pre- building dock a living testament to 1990s with a run of Suezmax yard is particularly salient, as ceding deliveries were Gorthon the industry's abounding confi- tankers, although hopes of a

AESA-built tonnage has been cen- Lines' sophisticated, cassette-car- dence prior to the 1973 oil crisis, revival in long-haul crude carrier tral not only to the development of rying forestry products carriers the Puerto Real yard retains a construction on the back of pan- the Haugesund company's fleet chartered to Swedish exporter latent scope for volume production European E3 technology never through the 1990s, but also to SCA Transforest. of steel-intensive tonnage. That materialized, technological progress in the shut- Unconstrained by space, and capability was demonstrated to But Puerto Real continues to tie tanker field.

As significant has been the fur- ther reinforcement of contractual links with the Norwegian energy group Statoil, which has under- written a further shuttle newbuild of 126,650-dwt, to be delivered from the Puerto Real facilities in

Andalucia, the country's largest shipbuilding establishment.

Go-ahead U.K. shipowner

Cenargo International, having extended its driver-accompanied,

RoRo freight ship program at the

Sevilla yard to four vessels, is about to phase first-of-class Dawn

Merchant into service on the cen-

While getting started on a new tranche of shuttle tanker and MST contracts,

Puerto Real has turned its hand to the construction of sophisticated new types of high-capacity ferry for

Scandinavian principals tral corridor of the Irish Sea. The 6,300-dwt drive-through design has been developed to provide a 2,000 lane-meter freight capacity and accommodation for at least 214 passengers within main dimensions of 590.5 x 82 ft. (180 x 25-m).

The class offers an exceptionally fast transit speed of 25-knots at a representative freight-carrying draft, by virtue of a four-engine propulsion plant developing 23,000-kW in total.

A high degree of maneuverability is promised by the adoption of two powerful bowthrusters and twin, high-lift rudders.

The series can be expected to have a significant impact on Irish

Sea traffic because of its unusual combination of high speed, trailer capacity and quality of driver accommodation. Dawn Merchant, assigned to the Liverpool/Dublin run, testifies to the versatility of the Sevilla yard, distinguished by its long tradition in shipbuilding

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