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Hansa Hamburg's MS

Reinbek Christened

A new 1,600-TEU containership built for Hamburg-based issuing house Hansa

Hamburg Shipping was recently chris- tened MS Reinbek. MS Reinbek is the second newbuilding in a series of four identical feeder ships built at the Meyer

Werft's Papenburg shipyard for Hansa

Hamburg Shipping. Its christening comes six weeks after the christening of the first vessel in the series, the MS

Eilbek.

MS Eilbek has already successfully completed its second return voyage to

Montreal via Antwerp and Liverpool for

CP Ships. MS Reinbek has also been chartered to CP Ships, and will operate on its Northern Europe-Canada service.

MS Reinbek is a high-speed vessel, which has been built to the highest com- mercial ice-class specification and offers flexible cargo handling facilities.

This combination of features makes it the exception among feeder vessels of this size class. The ship's technical man- agement is in the hands of the Hamburg- based Wappen Reederei shipping com-

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With a top reputation in chemical transport, Broere

Shipping makes no com- promises on tank cleaning.

They choose Gunclean

Toftejorg solutions from

Alfa Laval.

Today Alfa Laval uses unique

G-Pass software to identify and eliminate hard-to-reach “shadows” in the tanks.

TRAX, another software tool, then analyzes the performance of the cleaning solution before it is installed. “Alfa Laval’s strength lies in designing installations for total performance,” says Karel Vinke, Broere Cargo

Superintendent. “From shadow drawings to fi nal installation, Alfa Laval has given us full support.”

Today, Broere Shipping is more effective than ever.

With optimal cleaning and no downtime, their Gunclean

Toftejorg systems help keep business on track.

To learn more about Alfa Laval Gunclean Toftejorg systems or the Broere Shipping installations, please visit www.alfalaval.com/marine

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Gunclean

Toftejorg systems

Broere Shipping uses

SSt 40T dual-nozzle tank cleaning systems, plus rotary spray heads for hard-to- clean spaces like pump domes and entry hatches. on board

Precision

Grande Detroit Launched

In honor of the Motor City, Grande Detroit — a new build for Grimaldi-Naples — was launched on April 16 at the Croatian Uljanik Yard in Pula. Godmother of the vessel was Ann Dickson, wife of Michael Dickinson, who is the executive director of logistics at General Motors Europe. Grande Detroit is the ninth of a 14-ship order awarded by Grimaldi-Naples the Uljanik Yard. Over a four-year period the yard has launched and delivered to Grimaldi-Naples the vessels Grande Benelux and Grande

Italia in 2001, Grande Spagna and Grande Portugallo in 2002, Grande Roma and

Grande Napoli in 2003 and Grande Lagos and Grande Anversa in 2004.

Grande Detroit is a 36,000 ton vessel measuring 577 ft. (176 m) long with a 102 ft. (31.1 m) beam. Built as a car carrier, Grande Detroit can carry 4,600 cars and 100 containers on on-board trailers or alternatively 256 trucks and 2,000 cars. The ship has a maximum speed of 20 knots and carries a crew of 26.

The success of these Grimaldi-Naples vessels can be attributed to their high degree of cargo flexibility which enables them to carry any size or weight of wheeled vehicle on 11 decks which can be raised to a height of 16.4 ft. (5 m) to accommodate trucks, tractors, double-decker buses, rail cars and earth moving equipment. An additional five vessels will follow Grande Detroit from the Uljanik yard for delivery to Grimaldi-Naples from 2006 to 2009.

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