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As a progression on thruster technolo- gy, the basic principle is that the con- ventional shafting, propeller and rudder system is replaced with a 360-degree rotatable thruster unit also encapsulating the electric motor. Space savings are thereby achieved within the hull, while the efficiency losses from reduction gearing, long shaftlines, rudders, stern thrusters and also brackets and bossings are eliminated.

The first cruise ship application of podded electric drive was Carnival's 70,400-gt Elation, commissioned in early 1998 and fitted with two 14-MW.

Finnish-developed Azipod propulsion units. Current newbuild references include the entire Carnival group pro- gram, Royal Caribbean's prestigious

Project Eagle series, as well as Hapag-

Lloyd's Europa, all at KMY yards.

As a measure of its influence, the Azi- pod system figures in each of the sub- stantial number of cruise ship newbuilds currently in hand and on order at KMY.

By mid-1999, confirmed orders for the device had totaled 40 units of an aggre-

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The adaptability of the Azipod tech- nique is implicit in a design range, which extends from just 500-kW to approximately 25-MW.

The flexibility and power of the sys- tem was clearly pointed out during sea trials of Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas the world's largest cruise ship which is equipped with three 14-MW pods. During trials, the vessel topped out at 17 knots ... backwards!

Wartsila NSD

Wartsila NSD is a perennial power- house for shipboard power needs. A dominant force in the many markets it serves, the company is the major player in the medium speed diesel engine mar- ket, with an estimated 28 percent of market share, as well as in the low- speed market, where its Sulzer engines dominate.

Owned by Finnish engineering group

Metra, the company has led a wave of marine propulsion consolidations in recent years, most notably with the New

Sulzer Diesel acquisition of a few years ago. But while much of the focus has been on consolidations, one of the com- pany's more notable hook-ups has been dismantled, as it announced that it and co-owner Cummins Engine Company would split their 50/50 joint venture

Cummins Wartsila in early 2000. In announcing the split-up, Metra said the portion of the venture to be transferred to its engine building division Wartsila

NSD would generate net sales of about $133.5 million this year, or about two- thirds of Cummins Wartsila's business volume.

Splitting the venture, which was formed in 1995, will reportedly cost about $20.6 million. Despite the extra one-off cost, full-year 1999 earnings of

Metra's biggest division Wartsila NSD will improve on 1998, but will reported- ly still be in the red.

The split up was reportedly to allow the two companies to focus on the engines that best suited their core busi- nesses, to achieve synergies and improve profitability. Wartsila NSD will take over the manufacture, sales and service of the CW200 and CW220 diesel engines, and a plant at Mulhouse,

France, and Cummins would take responsibility for the CW170 and

CW180 engines and a factory at Daven- try in England.

Wartsila NSD would also take charge of global service for engines made by the joint venture's predecessor, SACM

Diesel, and the manufacture and servic- ing of UDX engines. The operations transferred to Wartsila NSD would be merged into the company's French sub- sidiary.