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On Friday, January 14, 2005, the first of four RoRo vessels for Turkish cus- tomer UND was named and launched from its building berth in Flensburg. The new vessel will be named Saffet Ulusoy, named after. Saffet Ulusoy, President of UND. The godmother of the vessel is his wife, Sürreya Ulusoy.

UND was founded by the Turkish

Trucker Association 12 years ago, at a time when all transports went by the

Balkan states on land routes to Central-

Europe. Due to the political instabilities and risks involved on the transport routes, however, UND became one of the first shipping companies to imple- ment the "From Road to Sea" concept.

Daily services with the very efficient

Flensburger RoRo-Freight Ferries from

Istanbul to Trieste were the result. Today the company transports on its ferries in average 200,000 trucks a year.

Since 2000 it has ordered 10 vessels at

FSG, with six already delivered, and

Saffet Ulusoy is the first ship in the sec- ond series. With this fleet renewal pro- gram the company has positioned itself as one of the most successful Freight

RoRo-Operators in the Mediterranean.

The four newest ship have incorporat- ed a number of improvements designed to allow the shipowner to run them more efficiently and cost effectively. Namely, as compared to the first two vessels delivered in 2000, the cargo area has been increased by 40 percent, and com- pared to ships number three through six - delivered in 2001/02, 15 percent.

Notably, this has been accomplished while maintaining the same main dimensions and the same service speed as on the previous vessels.

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Main Particulars

Length, o.a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .633.2 ft. (193 m)

Breadth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85.3 ft. (26 m)

Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21.3 ft. (6.5 m)

Main engine power . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 x 8,100 kW

Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Service speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21.5 knots

Trailer . . . . . . . . . . . .255 Trailer (each 13.6 m long)

Lane meters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,735 m

Sealink Vanessa 3

In Service

Recently delivered from the Sealink

Shipyard in Miri, Sarawak, East

Malaysia, the Sealink Vanessa 3, is in service the builder's charter fleet. The 157.5 x 36 ft. (48 x 11-m) vessel and a molded depth of 11.5 ft. (3.5 m) and a 9.2 ft. (2.8-m) maximum draft. This heavily built utility/supply vessel is cer- tified ABS A1+AMS for unrestricted services and is registered in Labuan,

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