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P.O. Box 250 • 8365 Highway 308 South

Lockport, LA 70374

Phone: 504/532-2554 • Fax: 504/532/7225 http://www.hollingershipyards.com

Shipbuilding, conversion, repair 20 floating drydocks, 6000 ton capacity

Hopper and tank barge construction

ISO 9001 certified

State of the art propeller, electrical and machine shop facilities

Integrated logistical support system

Eight gulf coast and Mississippi

River locations 13 "Do the right thing, the first time, on time, oil the time ... It's the Bollinger com m itm ent."

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Aralere /lain Particulars

Aratere is a rail-ferry vessel ailt by the recently privatized panish shipbuilder, Hijos de J.

Barreras for New

Zealand's

TranzRail. The new vessel will replace a 1974-built ferry,

Aratika, in its ser- vice across the

Cook Strait.

The ferry is designed to load and discharge rail wagons or vehicles and road vehicles simultaneously over the stern via shore-based double link spans. From the train deck, a fixed ramp extends to the bottom deck so that cars and vans can be placed .. .Hijos de J. Barreras S.A. .. .Rail-truck ferry «rator .. TranzRail/The

Interislander ite . .September 1998 .a ..492 ft. (150 m) 1 >P ..450 ft. (137 m) molded .. ...66 ft. (20.2 m) esign ....18 ft. (5.5 m) tantling ... ....19.6 ft. (6 m) molded deck 25 ft. (7.6 m) kle deck ... ...42 ft. (12.8 m) design 3,060 tons tonnage ... 12,300 d, trial 19.5 knots water ballast . 2,950 cu. m. heeling tanks 860 cu. m. 370 cu. m. sh water 50 cu. m. 22 cu. m. ainage tank ... 60 cu. m.

Vessel Christening Takes

Humanitarian Slant

As part of the launching cere- mony of P&O Nedlloyd's second vessel to join its Southampton

Class, the company made signifi- cant contributions to a new care home for orphans who were vic- tims of the 1995

Kobe, Japan earthquake.

The new vessel, christened P&O

Nedlloyd Kobe and the second of four 6,690 TEU vessels to be launched this year, was named during a tradi- tional Japanese ceremony at the

Port of Kobe

Shinko. In accor- dance to local cul- ture, P&O

Nedlloyd "bor- rowed" the name of the city and subsequently returned the com- pliment by making the donation to the new care home called "Hamakaze no ie", or House of the Sea Breeze.

The Kobe will be operating in

P&O Nedlloyd's Northern

European - Far East Service in cooperation with Grand Alliance partners.

November, 1998

P&O Nedlloyd Kobe

Main Particulars

Shipbuilder IHI isel type Containership

Class Lloyds Register of Shipping

Number of sister ships 3 launch date September 1998

Length 984 ft. (300 m)

Breadth 140.4 ft. (42.8 m)

Draft 46 ft. (14 m)

Length, b.p 935 ft. (285 m)

Speed 24.5 m

Complement 19

Cargo capacity 6,690 TEU

Main engine. .DU Sulzer 12 RIA96C

Auxiliary engines MaK 9R32

Propeller Stone Manganese

Bowthruster Kawasaki

Coating Nippon Paint

Radio Equipment Sailor

Radars Kelvin Hughes

Compass Tokimec

GPS Philips

Lifeboats Watercraft

C02 system Heinen Hansen

Desalination Alfa Laval

Separators Alfa Laval in the bottom hold.

A side ramp/door located at the aft port side is another means of loading and unloading trucks and cars. Aratere has two load lines: one for acting as a cargo RoRo, and the other as a passenger ferry. The vessel is equipped with four electrical cage induction motors, driving two fixed pitch propellers through reduction gears, each dri- ven by two motors.

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