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Vessels

IZAR Delivers LNG Inigo Tapias

IZAR Sestao Shipyard has delivered the LNG Inigo Tapias, which will be operated by the company F. Tapias for

Repsol YPF-Gas Natural. After conclu- sion of tests, carried out by the shipyard in the Gas Natural facilities in Huelva and valued by the shipowner, the ship was delivered completely operative and was delivered a month ahead of sched- ule. During the tests, the cargo has

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Main Pari iculars

Length 933 ft. (284.4 m)

Breadth 139 ft. (42.5 m)

Draft 37 ft. (11.3 m)

Depth 83 ft. (25.4 m)

Speed 19.5 knots

Crew 40 people

Propulsion: 28,000 kW at 83 rpm generated by one steam turbine type Kawasaki-IZAR, provided by the

IZAR Factory of Turbines. This factory, located in

Ferrol. has also provided the condensator of the propu- sion plant.

Above, Inigo Tapias after its delivery. Below, the inside of one of its massive tanks. reach quantity of 5,000 cu. m. of gas.

The Inigo Tapias has the capacity to transport 138,000 cu. m. of liquefied natural gas at 163 degrees C below 0, in four tanks with a double membrane type

No96 as a system of isolation and con- tention of cargo. Inigo Tapias is the first

LNG of this dimension built in Spain and the first of a series of five that IZAR has under construction for Repsol YPF,

Gas Natural and Union Fenosa. IZAR is the only shipyard in Europe and among the few in the world, capable of the con- struction of this type of ship -high tech- nology and added value- and has achieved a strong position in this sector.

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Seaspan Container Lines

Orders Nine Ships

Seaspan Container Lines has placed an order for nine new 4,250 TEU container ships, which will be chartered to the Canadian ship- ping company, CP Ships. As the 36th large containership Seaspan has ordered from

Samsung Heavy Industries over the past three years, the new ships will be built at

Samsung Heavy Industries, in South Korea. 10

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