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Finnish Maritime Report

Germany's Meyer Werft, under contract to Royal Caribbean, will fit a pair of cylcoconverter-con- trolled Azipods rated at 19.5-MW each, the most powerful units ordered to date, to a new breed of 86,000-gt, 2,100-passenger vessel incorporating a combined gas and steam turbine (coges) power plant.

Royal Caribbean's Eagle-class trio of 136,000-gt newbuilds from

Kvaerner Masa will each have three 14 MW podded units, while the next generation of 82,000-gt,

Carnival group vessels from the

Finnish builder will each employ two 17.6-MW Azipods.

Azipod has a proven track record in difficult ice navigation conditions, having been retrofitted in 1993 and 1995 to two Finnish 16,000-dwt products carriers,

Uikku and Lunni, purpose- designed for Arctic and Baltic trade. As a further stage in its application to ice-prone waters, the system has been adopted in a pair "Survey underwater sites quickly and safely with the JfQ^I ." ** *

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Icebreaking Supply Ships

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Arcticaborg is one of two icebreaking supply ship newbuildings built at

Kvaerner Masa-Yards Helsinki New

Shipyard for Wagenborg Kazakhstan BV, a company in the Sutch shipowning group Wagenborg. Arcticaborg and her sistership Antarcticaborg were ordered in December 1997 and delivered to

Wagenborg in October 1998.

The vessels are designed for year- round operation in the Caspian Sea. They will begin to serve drilling platforms oper- ated by Offshore Kazakstan International

Operating Company (0KI0C) for which they are on long-term charter.

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Arcticaborg

Main Particulars

Shipbuilder Kvaerner Masa-Yards

Vessel type . .. .Icebreaking supply vessel

Owner/OperatorWagenborg Kazakhstan BV / 0KI0C

Classification society Bureau Veritas

Contract Date December 1997

Length, o.a 213.5 ft. (65.1 m)

Breadth 54 ft. (16.4 m)

Draft, loaded 9.5 ft. (2.9 m)

Height 14.4 ft. (4.4 m)

DWT 675 tons

Speed 13 knots

Main engine Wartsila 6L26

Main generator van Kaick DGS

Harbor genset Valmet, Stamford

Emergency genset Valmet, Stamford

Propulsion ABB Azipod Oy

Icebreaking performance ahead2 ft. level ice (0.6 m)

Icebreaking performance astern 3.3 ft. level ice (1 m)

Bollard pull 32 tons

Diesel oil capacity 400 tons

Fire pumps, monitors . . . .Kvaerner Eureka

Step up gears Kumer

Fire extinguishing system .. .Hi-Fog, Marioff

Main switchboards ABB Marine

Machinery automation system .ABB Marine

Cabling Nokia, Helkama

Boiler Laatukattilat

Fuel oil separator Alfa-Laval

Incinerator Uson

Machinery pumps Iron, IMO

Cement bulk system Merewido

Cement bulk compressors .. .Atlas Copco

Oil mud system Bergen Rorhandel

Oil mud pumps and agitators . . . .Allweiler

Crane HMB

Hatches Tebul

WT sliding door Wine

Towing winch Ten Horn

Towing pin Karmoy

Anchor capstans Ten Horn

Anchors SEC

Tugger winches Ten Horn

Chain stoppers, stern roller Ten Horn

Rescue boats Norsafe

Boat davits Vestdavit

Life rafts Viking

Steel material Rautaruuki

Paints Sigma

Autopilot Anschiitz

Radars, radio station Furuno

Galley equipment Trimar

AC units, fans Novenco

Sewage treatment unit Hamworthy

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