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Fincantieri Delivers

Westerdam

On April 17 Fincantieri. based in

Marghera, delivered the Westerdam cruise ship to Holland America Line, part of the Carnival group. The ship is the third of a total of four ships to be completed by early 2006. The deadline set by Fincantieri for its delivery has been met despite a fire that broke out in the shipyard last October, damaging three decks. The official presentation ceremony for Westerdam took place on

April 25 at the Marittima station in

Venice. The 82,000-tons, $400-million ship has a gross tonnage of , measures 290 m long and has a carrying capacity of 3,200, including 2,400 passengers and 800 crew. The Westerdam follows recent trends in cruise ship design, with 85 percent of its rooms offering outside views. The ship is part of the 13-ship

Vista Class category.

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Heavy lift specialist Jumbo enters its heavy lift vessel MV "Jumbo Javelin" newbuild into service after having been mated with cranes successfully and passing final sea trials in the North Sea.

With its 1.600 tons lift capacity, a hold space of 19,000 cu. m. and a main deck of 2,650 sq. m., MV Jumbo Javelin is without contest the largest heavy lift ship in its class in the world. She is the first in a series of two new ships ordered by Jumbo. MV "Jumbo Javelin" will be joined by its twin sister vessel MV

Fairpartner in September. The ships will boost the Jumbo fleet to a total of 12 units. On its commercial maiden voyage

Jumbo Javelin will load a combination of power plant material and petrochemi- cal equipment from Dutch and Italian ports for destinations in Bahrain, Qatar and Iran. The heaviest cargo item is a reactor column — weighing 620 tons weight and measuring 61.06 x 9.736 x 9.878 m — for the styrene monomer plant of the ninth olefin project in

Bandar Assaluyeh, Iran.

Damen Delivers

Pair of Tugs

Damen Shipyards Gorinchem recently delivered a pair of Stan Tug 2608s —

Ilha de Sao Luis and O Bravo — in ful- filment of its contract with

Adminstracao dos Portos, which was signed in June 2003. The vessels are for operation in the Port of Horta and the

Port of Praia da Vitoria. The first vessel was delivered in February 2004 and the

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