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QM2 Celebrates Keel Laying At French Shipyard San Fernando Shipyard Gets A RoPax Ferry Order

IZAR San Fernando Shipyard landed an order for build- ing a RoPax ferry to be operated by Strandfaraskip

Landsins, the state-owned shipowning company of the

Faroe Islands. The contract is a significant step for the yard in the conventional RoRo and passenger ferry mar- ket, as it was known until now for its involvement in the steel and aluminum-built fast ferry design and construc- tion.

The vessel is designed to operate in high wind and rough sea conditions, as well as in not easily accessible ports such as those of Faroe Islands. All the onboard equipment and systems are projected to be operational under as low as -20 °C surrounding temperatures.

Besides 976 passengers, payload capacity is planned to include not only cars and trucks and MAFI trailers but even hazardous cargo in two garage decks - one movable of a car-deck type. Access for passengers and vehicles will be arranged by means of two aft ramps, plus an addi- tional ramp on the starboard side.

The vessel will be fitted with two electrically power- driven bow thrusters, an anti-heeling system able to coun- teract the forces of two trailers simultaneously running in the same side and a pair of retractable stabilizers reduc- ing the vessel rolling by 90 percent.

A propulsion plant, with four diesel MAN / B&W 7L 32/40 engines, coupled in pairs to double input reduction gears driving shaftlines with variable pitch propellers, will be also manufactured by IZAR Propulsion and Ener- gy Division.

With Onboard power will be supplied by two tail gen- erators, four generating sets driven by diesel engines and an emergency generator, the vessel will be supplied with a fully automated, 24-hour "unattended engine room," every operational parameter being monitored and con- trolled from the bridge control board.

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Cunard Line celebrated a milestone when a prefabricated section of the keel was lowered into the building dock of

Queen Mary 2. The new $800-million

Cunard flagship will enter service in

January 2004 and will be the largest, longest, tallest and most expensive pas- senger ship ever built. Cunard chose

July 4, 2002, as the date of its official ceremony because it is 162 years to the day that its first ship, Britannia, sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Halifax and Boston.

The first liner to be built since the line's Queen Elizabeth 2 entered ser- vice in 1969, QM2 is the first ship for

Cunard by the renowned French ship- yard Alstom Chantiers de l'Atlantique, one of world's most technically advanced shipbuilders who have built such famous luxury liners as Normandie, France and lie de France.

Because QM2 is a prototype of such unique design, the multi-million-dollar project employs teams of naval architects, engineers and maritime experts, including the marine interior design firms of SMC-Tillberg and

Designteam, both based in London. Facilities include 1,310 fully equipped staterooms and suites, nearly three quarters of which will have a private balcony. On the technical side, QM2's powerplant will include two gas turbines and four diesel engines. More than two-thirds of this energy will be used to power a state-of-the-art

Mermaid Pod Propulsion System, comprised of two fixed and two azimuthing pod units. The first four-pod installation to date, the powerful new system will provide a speed of nearly 30 knots with low noise and vibra- tion levels and maximum maneuverability.

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Main Particulars

Length, (o.a.) 443 ft. (135 m)

Breadth 74 ft. (22.7 m)

Depth to upper deck 45 ft. (13.6m)

Draught, design 18 ft. (5.6 m)

Deadweight, design 2.100 tons

Speed, service 21 knots

Propulsion, output 13.440 kW

Range 5.700 n.m.

Passenger, capacity 976

RoRo cargo, capacity 970 meter lane, equivalent to 200 cars

Crew 24

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