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Clipper Harald is the culmination of a coopera- tion between German companies Meyer Werft

Shipyard and Thyssen Nordseewerke, which have collaborated to produce two exceptional quality gas tankers that are competitive with dominant niche players in the Far East. for such work. Two German companies — Krupp Fordertechnik GmbH and

Thyssen Nordseewerke — recently completed the first construction phase of the largest trailing hopper dredge,

Vasco da Gama. With the first bottom section, the keel of the jumbo dredger was laid on the slipway of Thyssen

Nordseewerke yard at Emden the end of last April. The company, along with its partner Krupp Fordertechnik GmbH, has been working on the newbuilding for the past year. Scheduled for delivery at the beginning of 2000 to Jan de Nul group of Belgium, the dredger measures 656 ft. (200 m), with a 118.7 ft. (36.2 m) breadth and 33,000 cu. m hopper capacity. With 36,000 kW installed power for speeds of 16.5 knots, it will be used mainly in land reclamation.

Maintaining The Edge

It is no secret that the German mar- itime industry has earned the respect of the international maritime community for its high quality of product and ser- vice. Earning and maintaining such a reputation, however, comes only through dogged pursuit of devising increasingly innovative and effective solutions to the many challenges pre- sented by the rugged maritime environ- ment. Advanced work in the areas of

Research and Development is perhaps best embodied by the continued efforts of classification society Germanischer

Flender Werft recently delivered the fifth of its

Flender 2100 type containership to Hamburg owner Claus-Peter Offen.

Lloyd (GL). GL, led by Dr. Hans

Payer, continues to make impressive strides in many different areas of the maritime realm, with the goal of each project firmly entrenched in the "real business" side of enhancing maritime efficiency and safety. Most recently, GL launched project WaveLoads, which will be an advanced method for predict- ing wave induced loads for high speed ships. In announcing the project, GL said that to ensure their competitive positioning world markets, European shipyards need to be able to produce modern high speed ships that conform to the highest safety standards, while operating in the increasingly congested waters, which have become the hall- mark of European short sea shipping routes. GL commented that classifica- tion society rules provide formulas for safe design loads, but they tend to reflect the service experience of existing ships and will not adequately account for future larger scale ship designs. The three-year Waveloads project is sched- uled to culminate in the establishment of guidelines and recommendations for hull structural improvements and hull developments for high speed ships.

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