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Ship Repair & Conversion

QEII Again Stirs Repair Interests

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Interest in the European cruiseship repair market is currently focused on which shipyard will win the $31.3 mil- lion contract to repair the 1968-built, 70,327-grt cruiseship Queen Elizabeth

II, owned by Cunard Line. There are currently three shipyards shortlisted for the work — Bremerhaven's Lloyd

Werft, Hamburg's Blohm + Voss Repair and the U.K.'s A&P Southampton. The contract is expected to be awarded soon, with the drydocking dates scheduled for between November 12 and December 11. Now part of the Carnival Cruise

Lines (CCL) group, Cunard has also announced the drydocking programs for two other cruiseships in its fleet — the 1973-built, 24,492-grt Vistafjord (to be renamed Caronia), which will dock between November 20 and December 20, and the 1987-built, 37,845-grt Royal

Viking Sun (to be renamed Seabourne

Sun) during October 29 and November

Oriana arriving in Southampton.

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