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Circle 227 on Reader Service Card other semi-finished goods, can have important logistical and inventory bene- fits for many producers and buyers.

As with the 6,700 dwt sisters Androm- eda and Capricorn, the latest newbuilds from the Bodewes Scheepswerven canal side establishment, the two-hold 7,250 dwt class incorporates moveable, partial tweendeck pontoons that can be deployed as vertical separation bulk- heads. The preceding S-class series of 4,300 dwt vessels similarly featured a three-section, portable bulkhead, albeit in a single, box-like hold. The Androm- eda type, like the S-class, is expected to strengthen the charterer's transatlantic operations.

Meanwhile, Tille Scheepsbouw has employed hull forms used in a breed of small feederships as the basis for a range of multi-purpose traders spanning the 2,000-4,000 dwt band. The new Tille

Trader family accordingly offers laden speeds one or two knots faster than the average bulk commodity carrier on the coast. The design move is also notable in demonstrating that newbuild cargo- ship tonnage down to 2,000 dwt can still be competitively produced in northwest

Europe. Tille's latest round of contracts emanates from owners based in the northern part of the Netherlands, and concerns the 3,300-dwt version of the new type. endeavors at the lower end of the ton- nage scale.

Among the recent additions to the workload, four 3,300 dwt maids-of-all- work were booked by Frisian ship- builder Tille Scheepsbouw, while a new 7,250 dwt, ice-reinforced multi-purpose design generated a two-ship contract for the Hoogezand yard of Bodewes

Scheepswerven. One of the common threads in the succession of dry cargo vessels developed by Bodewes is the adoption of moveable bulkheads in the box-like holds. The simple expedient of incorporating a portable separation, whether in a one-hold or two-hold ship. significantly increases cargo carrying flexibility, and enhances the scope for economically transporting smaller, indi- vidual consignments of commodities.

While economies of scale favor much of world trade, an ability to make recourse to efficient means of conveying raw materials, forestry products, steel and

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Holland America Contracts

Fincantieri For Two

Holland America Line, a unit of

Carnival Corp. has signed an agree- ment with Fincantieri Cantieri Navali

S.p.A. to build two new 84,000-ton vessels expected to enter service in the fall of 2002 and summer of 2003.

The contract also options Holland

America to order up to three sister- ships for delivery between 2003 and 2005. Able to hold 1,800 passengers, the vessels will be constructed at a price of $400 million each at Fin- cantieri's Marghera shipyard. The vessel pair is the beginning of a new class of vessels for Holland America, who is introducing various new fea- tures, specifically the first "exterior elevators" located on both the port and starboard side of the vessel. Verti- cally transversing 10 decks, the eleva- tors offer guests panoramic sea views.

Measuring 951 ft. (289.9 m), the new vessels will be among the longest in the world — yet able to transit the locks of the Panama Canal. Spacious staterooms — 85 percent of which will feature an ocean view also offer private verandas. An Azipod propul- sion system was chosen to power the vessels.

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