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Finland lapped To Fill Prestigious "Partner" Role At SMM

The organizers of the

Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine

Technology International Trade

Fair '98, in selecting Finland as the official Partner Country, have selected a group of shipbuilders and ship equipment suppliers which are well regarded for sup- plying the highest quality marine products and services.

Finland, with a population of lit- tle more than five million, enjoys a robust shipbuilding and equip- ment supply industry. Although tough competition in and out of

Europe has forced, for example, the number of employees in the industry to drop from 18,000 in 1982 to 8,000 today, the country maintains several strongholds, including the building and outfit- ting of high-value tonnage such as

LNG carriers and cruise ships.

In fact it has been Finland's pro- clivity for developing next-genera- tion cruise ship technology that has the country running neck-and- neck with the world's other top cruise ship builders.

Most conversations regarding

Finnish shipbuilding capability start and end with Kvaerner

Masa-Yards, which has rapidly emerged as not only a leading ship- builder but a primary driver of new technology on ships.

KMY builds cruise liners and passenger ferries, LNG carriers, cable ships, icebreakers and ice- going tonnage and all types of special technology vessels.

A major development — created in close cooperation with ABB

Industry, another Finnish mar- itime powerhouse — was the

Azipod propulsion system.

The Azipod propulsion unit can rotate 360-degree and incorporates an electric AC motor located inside the propeller pod. A separate com- pany, ABB Azipod Oy, was estab- lished in October 1997 to carry out the business activities of the

Azipod system. A major break- through for the Azipod propulsion was the decision by Carnival to select Azipod propulsion for two 70,400-gt Fantasy class cruise lin- ers. Azipod propulsion was also selected for the 130,000-gt project

Eagle-cruise liners for Royal

Caribbean.

Finland also continues to play a lead role in the project to develop and display a commercially based service for the storage and distrib- ution of Electronic Navigation

Charts (ENC).

Via the European Union's 23- month, 3.3-million ECU ECHO project, Finland's leading technolo- gy companies, working closely with

European colleagues, used the

Finnish icebreaker Fennica to prove the merits — including safe- ty and cost effectiveness — of its system, which, among other fea- tures, utilizes standard shipboard communications equipment to receive updated versions of elec- tronic charts.

Stop by Finland's Hall at SMM to learn more about Finnish mar- itime solutions.

Note: If your plans do not include SMM this year, simply circle the appropriate number (see below, left) on the Reader

Service Card in this edition and free information will be dispatched to you.

Finland At Your Service...

The following Finnish companies will be onhand at the SMM '98 exhibition in Hamburg, Germany to discuss their engineered solutions to maritime problems.

Elektrolux Professional

ILS 47 LST-Engineering fi2 43 Mareco Marine Systems fi3 44 Marioff 64 4S MacGregor (Fin) Oy 65 46 Napa Oy 66 47 NK Cables 67 48 Optec International 68 49 Parker Hannifin Oy Finn Filter 69 so Parma Metals Oy 70

SI Patria Finavitec 71 57 Pemamek Oy 72

S3 Pocadel Oy 73

S4 Puttek 74

SS RauplanOy 75 56 Rautaruukki Steel 76

S7 Ins.tsto R. Rouvari Oy 77

S8 Saj Instrument Ab 78

S9 SBA Interior Oy 79 fin SBG-Drei 80 fil Schouman Wood Oy 81

Tebul Oy 87 89 83 Turun Korjaustelakka Oy 90 84 Turun Prosessiasennus Oy 91 85 Turun Teraskaluste 92 86 Valmet Power Transmission 93

R7 VTT Volmistustekniikka 94 88 Wartsilii NSD Finland Oy 95

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