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Investment in Design (Continued from page 8) open-hatch bulkers, which used two 40- ton Konecranes-Munckloader gantries manufactured and fitted in Finland.

The ships came from Stocznia

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Stocznia Gdynia ordered a total of 14 cranes from Konecranes for a series of seven 40,000-dwt vessels due to be delivered to Westwood Shipping Line of the U.S. during 2002-2003. The age profile of the world fleet of open-hatch bulkers, reckoned to number 159 ships, suggests a steady replacement newbuild demand over the next 10 years.

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Campbell Marine Consultants has fostered new links with the industry in China. The recent opening of new headquarters for the

Canadian firm and its associated com- pany Algoship Designers in Nassau,

Bahamas, was accompanied by a first deal for the latest addition to its stan- dard ship portfolio, a 700-dwt inter- island ferry.

While the bulk carrier bloodline is perpetuated in a host of new projects involving Chinese and South Korean yards, the extension of the GTR Camp- bell concept to the ferry domain involves a combined passenger and cargo carrier dubbed the Fiesta type.

Ordered by FastMail Shipping Compa- ny from Xinhe Shipyard, and incorpo- rating accommodation for 100 passen- gers, she will be placed into service between Florida and the Bahamas.

The ferry initiative complements the

GTR Campbell imprint on bulker new- build schemes currently under way at four other Chinese yards, and totaling 20 ships. The extent and scale of activi- ty is a measure of the continuing influ- ence of a design house that made such an important contribution to the Japan- ese shipbuilding industry's earlier rise to international prominence.

Indeed, the new standard types have a distinguished pedigree, since GTR

Campbell Marine Consultants and

Algoship Designers spring from the same organization which originated the 13,600-dwt Freedom, 21,500-dwt For- tune and 22,500-dwt Friendship designs, acclaimed 'maids-of-all-work' for the dry cargo tramp trades.

GTR Campbell International had been formed in Halifax, Canada, in the late 1940s by Scottish naval architect

George Campbell, who moved the company to Japan in 1950. After a peri- od of reduced involvement in shipbuild- ing, the firm returned to the standard ship sector in 1994 under its present name, headed by Antony Prince. The re-emergence was heralded by the intro- duction of the 29,500-dwt Fantasy design, reflecting close reading of the market's needs on the part of Prince, who has been with the organization for 29 years. He had been the 'right-hand man' to the late George Campbell.

Currently, a new breed of GTR Camp- bell-developed wide-hatch bulker, the

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Shipyard for Dockendale Shipping and the Clipper Group. Delivery of the first pair of 27,000 dwt newbuilds in a six- ship series was imminent at press time.

The company is also constructing the 52,000-dwt, double-skin Galaxy

Handymax bulker type, a four-ship pro- gram at the Jingjiang yard to the account of Clipper and Dockendale.

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