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Flender Werft Launches

Santa Federica

Flender Werft recently celebrated the launching of containership

Santa Federica. The ship, owned by Claus-Peter Offen, is of the FW 2100 type series, and features a

DWT of 30,200 with a service speed of 20 knots.

Santa Federica is equipped with four cranes carrying 2,169 contain- ers in six tiers. Propulsion is accomplished with a crosshead

MAN B&W 6S 60 MC engine devel- oping 12,240 kW at 105 rpm.

Electrical energy is supplied from four auxiliary diesel generators with a total output of 3,670 kW.

The new containership is sched- uled to be delivered in July, at which time it will enter service under a three-year charter for

P&O Nedlloyd Lines.

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Daewoo Gets Order For Car

Carriers

Ugland International Holding

Pic and Leif Hoegh & Co. have ordered two new car vehicle carri- ers from Daewoo Heavy Industries

Ltd. for around $56.9 million each.

Ugland and Leif Hoegh — whose jointly owned company, Norwegian car transport specialist HUAL AS, already owns five vessels — placed the order through another joint company Joint Vessels Ltd.

NNS Awarded $1.2 Billion

USS Nimitz Contract

Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) has been awarded a con- tract by the U.S. Navy to perform refueling and overhaul work on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The con- tract, valued at approximately $1.2 billion, was signed by Navy and

NNS officials on April 30, 1998.

In addition to the refueling of both of the ship's reactors, there will be significant modernization work including a major upgrade of the island house and the integra- tion of a new radar tower.

Maintenance and repair work will be performed below the ship's waterline to include the applica- tion of new paint. In addition, the shipyard will be replacing nearly 3,000 valves and overhauling another 600 in various ship sys- tems.

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Pictured is Fincantieri-built LNG SNAM Lerici.

Main Particulars

Length, o.a 705.4 ft. (215 m)

Length, b.p 673 ft. (205 m)

Breadth 111.2 (33.9 m)

Depth to upper deck 70 ft. (21,3 m)

Draft, design 31.2 ft. (9.5 m)

DWT 32,000

Fresh water capacity 300-cu.-m.

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