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FINLAND FOCUS the new Spliethoff class has been developed in mind of the particular requirements associated with year-round shipments of paper from Finland to North America. It is anticipated that up to six of the series of 10 new vessels will be required for the UPM Kymmene transport system.

The adoption of sideports for a total of five sideshifters, in addition to conventional hatch covers, is a pointer to future operations involving handling- sensitive, high-value goods emanating from the

Finnish paper industry.

Three ships apiece have been placed with Mitsubishi

Heavy Industries and Tsuneishi Shipbuilding, and four similar vessels have been contracted at Stocznia

Szczecinska in Poland.

All will be built to the highest ice-class, and the

Circle 279 on Reader Service Card series will provide a showcase for the world's poten- tially most powerful medium-speed diesel engine, the

Finnish-developed, Italian-manufactured Wartsila 64.

In addition to its suitability for timber, paper, general cargo, bulk commodities and also dangerous cargoes, the type has been moduled for a substantial container intake equivalent in each case to more than 1,100-

TEU.

Consilium Selesmar To

Present Latest IBS In Oslo •

The Consilium Selesmar MasterBridge III is a true integrated bridge. Its ECDIS ECS 980 runs on the powerful and stable Linux operating system.

Consilium Selesmar will show its integrated bridge system, MasterBridge III, at this year's Nor-

Shipping '99 exhibition, scheduled for June 8-11 in

Oslo, Norway. This is the company's second-gener- ation bridge system and replaced the vector system two years ago. Since then, it has enjoyed a number of enhancements, which were made possible largely by its versatile architecture. This allows the system to receive frequent software and hardware upgrades, as new technology warrants.

The centerpiece of the system is the IND 970 graphic conning station — a station which displays critical navigation information gathered from a number of sensors and systems strategically placed throughout the ship. On display are the ship's head- ing, course to steer, rate of turn, speed, shaft speed, propeller pitch, rudder angle, voyage monitoring, position, drift, depth under keel and alarms. Sepa- rately windowed pages show weather chart facsimi- les and navigational telex data.

MasterBridge III is touted as a fully integrated bridge system that includes all of the ship's naviga- tion instruments interfaced over a local area net- work. Consilium Selesmar delivers an entire turn- key bridge, consisting of ARPA radars, ECDIS, gyro and magnetic compasses, autopilot, steering gear remote control, speed log, DGPS/GPS/Loran navigators, echo sounder, anemometer, indicators for rate-of-turn and rudder angle and external sound system. The IB also includes a modern alarm trans- fer system and dead man's alarm for vessels designed for one-man bridge operations. The Con- silium Selesmar ECDIS ECS 980 runs on the Linux operating system, a powerful and extremely stable

OS invented by Linus Torvalds of the University of

Helsinki. Its main benefit to ECDIS is its stability.

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