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World Shipyard Orderbook

Ship Name GT Ship Type Year Ship Name GT Ship Type Year Ship Name GT Ship Type Year

CAPE NORTH 15 700 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 C0LUMBA 23 500 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 POLNOCNA B300/3 500 TRAWLER 1998

CAPE NEGRO 15 700 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 CLASSICA 23 500 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 POLNOCNA B685/2 500 TRAWLER 1998

CAPE NORMAN 17 285 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 GDYNIA 8145/2 23 500 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 POLNOCNA B686/1 145 TRAWLER 1998

REGENT SKY 50 000 PASS. (CRUISE) SHIP 1998 GDYNIA 8183/1 56 700 CRUDE OIL TANKER 1999 POLNOCNA B304/01 2 000 TRAWLER 1998

GWAREK 4 600 PASS. (CRUISE) SHIP 1999 ELBW0LE 33 000 CONTAINERSHIP 1999 POLNOCNA B305/01 2 500 TRAWLER 1998

Stocznia Gdynia S.A. — Poland GDYNIA 8184/2 33 000 CONTAINERSHIP 1999 POLNOCNA B305/02 2 500 TRAWLER 1998

PEGASUS 21600 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 Stocznia Polnocna S.A. — Poland POLNOCNA B873/1 1 618 RESEARCH VESSEL 1998

TAURUS 21 600 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 P0LN0CNA 8184/04 5 963 GENERAL CARGO 1998 Stocznia Porta Odra — Poland

SIRIUS 21 600 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 MAASKANTSTELLENDAM 500 TRAWLER 1998 0DRA TB665/03 250 TRAWLER 1998

ZENIT 21600 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 GANTHI 820 TRAWLER 1998 ODRA TB665/02 250 FISHING VESSEL 1998

WESTERHAMN 23 500 CONTAINERSHIP 1998 GINNET0N 820 TRAWLER 1998 Stocznia Szczecinska S.A. — Poland

GE Marine Secures 10-Year

Gas Turbine Maintenance

Agreement From Stena

GE Marine Engines has secured a 10-year gas turbine maintenance agreement with

Swedish company Stena Line AB for three Stena High Speed Sea

Service (HSS) fast ferries. "The Stena contract for the

HSS fast ferries is a first-of-a- kind for GE in the commercial marine industry, although we currently have long-standing gas turbine maintenance agreements with various marine and indus- trial customers," said GE Marine

Engines General Manager Bill

Millhaem. "The agreement with

Stena Line illustrates that GE offers customers not only the equipment but the value-added expertise and knowledge to maintain this machinery."

The agreement covers full onboard and shop repair mainte- nance for the 12 GE LM aeroderivative gas turbines on three HSS fast ferries, Stena

Explorer, Stena Voyager and

Stena Discovery, which began commercial operation in April 1996, July 1996 and June 1997, respectively.

Each semi-swath fast ferry has two GE LM1600 and two GE

LM2500 aeroderivative gas tur- bines in a COGAG configuration.

The LM1600s are rated at 13.1 megawatts and the LM2500s are rated at 20.2 megawatts.

The vessels were built by

Finnyards in Rauma, Finland and measure 413 x 131 ft. (126 x 40 m).

Each vessel can achieve speeds of more than 40 knots and has the capacity for 1,500 pas- sengers. The vessels are operat- ed by Stena Line on the Irish Sea between the U.K. and The

Netherlands.

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