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Emeraude Lines.

Also at the upper capacity end of the portfolio, a FlyingCat 50 has been ordered by the Maltese com- pany Virtu Ferries in a deal worth approximately $12 million. Due for handover during the early part of the coming summer season, the 161 ft. (49 m) craft will be deployed between Malta and Sicily, carrying 418 passengers and 21 cars at speeds up to 40 knots.

As with Nordic Jet Line under- takings on a second JumboCat 60, the latest Maltese contract follows earlier, positive experience with a

Kvaerner Fjellstrand vessel, since

Virtu Ferries had successfully deployed the first FlyingCat 50 last summer in its Sicilian traffic.

Propelled by four diesel engines driving waterjets, the design type offers good ride performance through the specification of the

Kvaerner motion dampening sys- tem (MDS), using active and com- puter-controlled, submerged foils and flaps.

Design capacity strengthened

Ulstein's takeover last fall of the Alesund-based design house

Nordvestconsult (NVC) under- scored the commitment to core activities and the home-grown technological base, while also giv- ing further expression to a strate- gy of broaching new segments of the market. Bringing NVC into the fold gave succor to the group's efforts to broaden the market reach of its activities in design and ship systems technology, given

Ulstein's business weighting towards the offshore industry, and

NVC's extensive experience in spe- cialized merchant ships and fish- ing vessels. In addition, it was felt that the combination of expertise and client contacts would create new opportunities for the equip- ment-manufacturing cluster encompassed by the Ulstein orga- nization. The move has also pro- vided the new Norwegian owner, and hence the Vickers-Ulstein

Marine enterprise, with a foothold in the Croatian technical marine field, since NVC's successor,

Ulstein Nordvestconsult (UNVC), has acquired a 50 percent stake in the Rijeka-based design firm NVC-

Navis Consult. UNVC recently achieved a market breakthrough by signing an agreement with a

Japanese yard to provide the design for two 21-knot vehicle car- riers with a loading capacity equiv- alent to 1,400 cars. Although

Nordvestconsult is no stranger to contractual owner United

European Car Carriers (UECC), having been entrusted with design responsibility for the operator's six previous newbuilds, the latest pro- ject is the first for the Alesund firm from the Japanese shipbuilding industry. Domiciled in the

Norwegian coastal town of

Grimstad, UECC is of Swedish and

Japanese parentage, the two bloodlines being Wallenius and

Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The prospective new additions to its car feedership fleet will be con- structed by Tsuneishi

Shipbuilding, and are to be deployed in the intra-European traffic in North Sea, Baltic and

Mediterranean waters. The high specification for the two ships, besides a comparatively high ser- vice speed and the extensive adop- tion of equipment sourced in

Scandinavia, unusually includes fin stabilizers.

Business relationships forged closer to home by UNVC include a longstanding link with Fosen Mek

Verksteder at Rissa, most recently expressed in the design input to the yard's construction of a series of exceptionally fast, conventional passenger RoRo ferries for Minoan

Lines of Crete.

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