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A&P Tapped For Oriana Refit

By Alan Thorpe, international editor

P&O Cruises' flagship, the 69,153-grt

Oriana, is to be refitted at A&P Group's

Southampton shiprepair facility. The contract for the 21-day refit, rumored to be worth in excess of $1.5 million, has been signed by P&O Cruises and A&P

Group, and will begin on April 14 and be completed by May 6. The companies

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Mivan Marine, Harris Pye (outfitters),

Trimline, CLC Marine, and Durastic.

This is the second refit for the Oriana, which was built for P&O Cruises by

Germany's Meyer Werft, Papenburg, entering service in April 1995. At the time of her first refit, A&P Southampton was unable to bid for the contract because the yard was occupied with other pre-existing contracts.

Competition for this contract came from a number of other Northern European ship repair yards, including Lloyd Werft (Germany), Arno Dunkerque (France) and Cammell Laird (Tyneside).

The scope of work includes a standard drydocking program, which encompass- es sea valve removal and maintenance, anchors and thrusters inspection and overhaul where necessary, main and auxiliary engine inspection and mainte- nance, and hull inspection and mainte- nance where necessary. A&P will also be applying a full below the water line paint system, supplied by International

Paint, and a repaint job on the ship's superstructure.

A&P Southampton has recently com- pleted a two-ship refit order from

Norway's Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, involving the Black Watch and Black

Prince.

Following the recent decision by Shell to use Singapore's Sembawang

Shipyard as a base for repairs in the foreseeable future, there has been anoth- er such deal. This time Singapore-based

Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) has signed an alliance agreement with Singapore's

Jurong Shipyard Ltd. (JSL), covering all repairs, conversions, upgrading and maintenance of ships managed by NOL subsidiary Neptune Shipmanagement

Ltd.

Egypt's Port Said Shipyard (PSS) has recently taken delivery of a 17,000-ton lifting capacity floating dock, which is currently undergoing refurbishment operations and is expected to be ready for operations during the middle part of this year. There are currently two other floating docks at the yard suitable for the repair of ships up to 20,000 dwt.

PSS' main market is Suez Canal

Authority (SCA) ships, 52 of which were docked/repaired last year. There were also 11 commercial ships repaired last year.

Varna-based shiprepair specialist,

Odessos Shiprepair Yard, Bulgaria, has now received approval for the sale of a 25 percent holding to a management buy-out, named KRZ Invest, for $3.26 million, from the Bulgarian privatiza- tion agency. With the deal being delayed for several months, the agency has now changed its mind over adjoining wharves, which the agency thought was nothing to do with the capital of the yard. Under Bulgaria's mass sell-off pri- vatization, just over two-thirds of the yard's total capital was sold against pri- vatization vouchers two years ago.

Facilities at the yard include a 787 ft. x 89 ft. (240 m x 27 m) graving dock, capable of dockings ships up to 35,000

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