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Ship Repair & Conversion 29. The majority of work to be carried out at these drydockings will be changes to the passenger cabins and passenger facilities, with work being controlled by interior design consultant Robert Till- berg. No news on which shipyards will carry out the projects have been announced.

Meanwhile, during late April, A&P

Southampton, part of the A&P Group which also has yards in Falmouth, Tyne and Chatham, docked P&O Cruises' 69,153-grt flagship Oriana for refit work. The refit saw the ship in the yard's famous King George V Drydock, which was built during 1933 to accommodate the super liners of its day, including the

Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary.

She was at the yard for two weeks, with work including inspection/testing, repair and maintenance work, which was carried out in line with the stan- dards of P&O. The project secured work for around 150 workers and created a further 75 jobs for the yard as well as for up to 400 sub-contractors who were car- rying out 'hotel' maintenance work, including both accommodation and pub- lic areas.

Carrying on with repairs to cruise- ships, Lloyd Werft has won the $5.5 million contract to carry out refit work onboard Norwegian Cruise Lines' (NCL) 76,049-grt cruiseship Norway.

Duration of the project was scheduled for three weeks, and included engine, shaft and propeller overhauls and hull painting.

Meanwhile, Lloyd Werft has announced that in talks with Italian cruiseship operator, Costa Crociere, it plans to lengthen two of its cruiseships next year. The yard has taken up initial talks, but no details had yet been worked out. This type of work has become a specialized sector of the industry for the yard, with Lloyd Werft already complet- ing several similar projects for NCL, with the 32,396-grt Norwegian Majesty, the 50,760-grt Norwegian Wind and the 50, 764-grt Norwegian Dream all under- going lengthening work.

In addition, Airtours' 1,600-berth cruiseship Sunbird (ex-Song of Ameri- ca) has now docked at Merseyside's

Cammell Laird shipyard for a $10 mil- lion pre-service refit and refurbishment contract. Work included the addition of nine penthouse suites and outfitting of soft furnishings in cabins and public areas. The ship, which was purchased from RCCL, will join the Airtours fleet in the Mediterranean at the end of May, this year. She is scheduled to be renamed in Palma on May 28 and will become the flagship of the U.K. cruise operators fleet.

With regards to the general repair mar- ket, Shell has decided to award the re-

June, 1999 activation project of its 68,122-dwt

LNG carrier LNG Lagos (ex-Nestor), which has been laid-up in Loch Striven for over 20 years since she was built by

Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St. Nazaire, during 1976, to French shiprepair yard

Sobrena. The ship is being re-activated for Shell's Nigerian project, which will be the ship's first ever commercial cargo, and arrived in Brest during the first week in May, following a tow from

Loch Striven. The vessel is expected to be at the yard for three months.

During the latter part of April, this year (1999), there were nearly two mil- lion dwt worth of vessels undergoing repairs at Dubai Drydocks, UAE, with

IMAC's 298,324-dwt VLCC World Cre- ation, Olympic Shipping's 273,856-dwt

VLCC Olympic Breeze, Ceres Hel- lenic's 413,117-dwt ULCC Kapetan

Hiotis, Sosema's 269,047-dwt VLCC

Licorne Pacifique and Bergesen's 322,446-dwt ULCC Settebello all dry-

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