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competitiveness in constructing the UT-series ships that form its staple diet is its familiarity with the group's own equipment, machinery and systems, which helps promote work performance as regards installation and inter- facing.

While the $33 million redevelop- ment of the Ulsteinvik shipyard will enable the yard to cope with a wider range of vessels, it will most importantly provide the basis for higher productivity and efficiency.

Ulstein Verft has long played a pivotal role within the group, not only in attracting contracts which have a multiplier effect throughout the specialized equipment manu- facturing activities, but also in constructing and engineering first- of-class vessels conceived by the company's prolific design division.

It has always had to demonstrate a competitive capability for the gamut of UT-series offshore and specialized vessel types, regardless of considerable variations in tech- nology and configuration. The building dock at the Ulsteinvik premises is being lengthened from 623 ft. (190 m) to 741 ft. (226 m), and widened from 75.4 ft. (23 m) to 118 ft. (36 m), and is to be enclosed over half its length. The inner part of the building dock will be pro- tected by a hall of 459 ft. (140 m) length and 175 ft. (53.5 m) span, and the adoption of a second, mov- able gate will enable two vessels to be constructed simultaneously.

The program includes two new outfitting bays and the provision of substantially increased craneage capacity.

High-speed power

Greater Norwegian industrial self-reliance in providing high- speed maritime transport solu- tions is promised through the cre- ation of a facility at the Ulstein

Bergen diesel engine works to assemble and test a radical new design of gas turbine. Developed by the group's turbine subsidiary in partnership with Turbomeca of

France and Volvo Aero Corporation of Sweden, the Eurodyn radial machine offers important power- to-weight ratio and emissions per- formance benefits relative to diesel engine prime movers in its target markets.

The 2.3 MW-plus Eurodyn radi- al gas turbine is expected to have its first commercial service appli- cation during the spring of this year, powering the UT905 catama-

February, 1999 ran ferry Ulstein Turbiner char- tered by Hardanger

Sunnhordlandske (HSD) for the link between Stavanger and

Haugesund. Built several years ago by Ulstein as a test and demonstration vessel, the twin- hulled vessel is being outfitted by

Oma Baatbyggeri with seating for 206 passengers.

Manufacture and assembly of pre-series Eurodyn engines, due to be carried out over the course of the 1999 first-half, will be used to optimize the build process.

Commercial production is to be set in train in the year 2000. The tar- get design power for production units is 2.6-MW.

Anticipated full load fuel con- sumption is 240 g/kW-hour, and test cell running indicates that the engine's environmental perfor- mance will count strongly in its favor, as it achieved 0.25 g/kW- hour for nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions compared with an IMO-

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