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of up to 10 buses and 125 cars, has been assigned to the 62-nautical mile route linking Yenikapi, near

Istanbul, with Bandirma, on which sistership Adnan Menderes has been engaged since July. (For more on Adnan Menderes, see

Great Boats feature on page 40.)

IDO has successfully attracted an increasing volume of traffic off the Istanbul area's congested roads, and was on target at the time of writing to achieve an 11- million passenger throughput for 1998. Its enterprise has given a sharper edge to ferry competition in the region while helping to fos- ter a degree of modal shift.

Like the Adnan Menderes,

Turgut Ozal achieved its intended operational speed of 37-knots at less than 80-percent power with full load. This holds out the prospect of reduced operational costs for IDO and significant power and speed reserves in order to ensure that schedules can be maintained.

Turgut Ozal is the eighth Austal entrant to the fleet, the earlier deliveries having entailed two 30- m monohull ferries, two 40-m pas- senger catamarans, followed by two 60-m RoRo equipped passen- ger catamarans and the first of the

Auto Express 86-type.

A progressive approach to trans- portation needs is also displayed by UND Ro-Ro Line, the shipping arm of the Turkish international haulers' association, Uluslarasi

Nakliyeciler Dernegi (UND). Its maritime operations are based on the maintenance of links between

Turkey and Trieste, on Italy's northernmost Adriatic shore, using capacious RoRo tonnage pri- marily for unaccompanied freight units, complemented by the provi- sion of a shuttle flight service to and from Istanbul for commercial drivers.

UND has progressively expanded its fleet using Scandinavian- designed vessels, in particular, and is set to bolster its capacity further through the addition this year of two examples of the Stena 4-

Runner class of 12,350-dwt freight ship. Following the handover of the first two newbuilds of the 4-

Runner generation on long-term charter to the U.K.'s Royal Fleet

Auxiliary, the third and fourth rep- resentatives of the series are due to be phased into service with

UND during the spring and latter part of 1999.

Built by Societa Esercizio

Cantieri (SEC) in Italy, the 22.5- knot class offers 2,715 lane-m for

January, 1999 freight on three decks.

UND had originally planned to receive the first and fourth of the 4-Runners, but problems in the production program in Italy result- ed in a change in the order of com- mitments. As an interim measure, the Turkish operator engaged the first of Cenargo International's 23 knot-plus series of newbuilds on charter during the latter part of 1998.

Dimensioned for an all-freight load corresponding to 2,000 lane- m, and adopting a drive-through configuration, the 7,360-dwt Dawn

Merchant gave first form to

Cenargo's building program entrusted to Astilleros Espanoles'

Sevilla yard in Andalucia. While initially deployed on Turkish duties, she expresses her U.K. owner's determination to consoli- date the long-term position of its

Merchant Ferries' operation on the

Irish Sea.

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