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World's Largest

Containership Named

Colombo Express, the world's largest containership at 1099 ft. (335 m) long, 141 ft. (43 m) wide, and able to carry 8,750 containers, was recently named.

The patron of the new Hapag-Lloyd flagship was Christiane Krumnow, wife of the supervisory board chairman of TUI AG, Dr. Jürgen Krumnow. "Global container transport remains a growth market," said Michael

Behrendt, chairman of the executive board of Hapag-Lloyd AG. "Today's volume of 71 million standard contain- ers is forecast to grow to almost 91 mil- lion by 2008 - an increase of almost 30% or 20 million containers. With our fleet expansion program, we are well equipped to meet the challenges of the future and fully intend to continue to expand our market position." The ship was built at Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea. It has a capacity of 104,000 tons and can carry 8,750 standard con- tainers. The ship's diesel has an output of 68,640 kW or 93,500 hp, providing the vessel with a speed of 25 knots.

The newbuilding with Hamburg as home port operates between Europe and

Asia, calling at the ports Shanghai,

Xiamen, Yantian, Hong Kong,

Singapore, Southampton, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Port Klang, Singapore,

Hong Kong and again Shanghai.

Hapag-Lloyd will commission seven more sister ships as well as two slightly smaller units (8,400 slots) up to 2008.

This means a capacity increase of over- all 86,800 slots (TEU). Hapag-Lloyd's fleet, today comprising 51 modern con- tainerships with a total capacity of approx. 192,000 TEU, will increase to 61 units by 2008.

Containerships at Hapag-Lloyd tradi- tionally bear the name of a city, fol- lowed by "Express". In 1886, North

German Lloyd in Bremen, one of the two original companies of Hapag-

Lloyd, opened its East Asia service with the steamship "Oder", calling at

Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore as well as Colombo. In the same year, a service was set up linking Germany with Australia via Colombo. Colombo was not only an important transhipment hub for Hapag-Lloyd in the past: it has remained a key port up to the present day. Customers are provided with seven weekly departures providing links with the world's main economic center. The port is also a significant transhipment hub for the Indian subcontinent.

Hamburg-Amerikanische

Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft, known for short as "Hapag" or

Hamburg-American Line, was founded in 1847 to carry emigrants to the "New

World". Its greatest competitor was

North German Lloyd, founded in

Bremen in 1857. The companies merged in 1970 to form Hapag-Lloyd

AG, which has belonged to TUI AG since 1997.

Damen Delivers Crew

Boat to Kanoo Marine

After successful seatrials at the ship- yard in Gorinchem, Damen has deliv- ered the first of three new crew boats to

Kanoo Marine (a division of Kanoo

Shipping Agencies). The first-of-class has arrived in the Gulf and will start working soon. The second vessel is just about to leave the shipyard and the third will undergo trials in June. Kanoo

Shipping Agencies (part of Yusuf Bin

Ahmed Kanoo) is a longtime customer of Damen.

The company provides among others a network of ship agency's services throughout the Gulf, with fast crew boats currently operating out of Ras

Tanura and Juaymah (Saudi Arabia) and

Fujairah (UAE).

The new crew boats are based on the standard Damen Stan Tender 1905 design, of which already three units are in operation with other owners. The ver- sion developed for Kanoo can carry six passengers and a payload of 2.5 tons while maintaining a speed of 18 knots.

The vessel's main purpose will be to transfer ship's crews and officials, as well as stores and spares.

The design philosophy to optimize for reliability and durability resulted in an oversized engine cooling capacity, redundant engine room ventilation with dust filters and redundant water-cooled air conditioning; all optimized on the basis of Kanoo's and Damen's long experience with Gulf conditions.

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The first of two identical coast protec- tion vessels designed and equipped by

Rolls-Royce is Abeille Bourbon, a mul- tipurpose vessels intended to prevent pollution disasters such as the Erika and

Prestige.

Les Abeilles International in Groupe

Bourbon will operate the new UT 515 design vessels on long-term charter to the French navy. Abeille Bourbon was built by Myklebust Verft (part of the

Kleven Maritime Group) on the west coast of Norway, and the hull was fabri- cated in Poland. The second vessel is scheduled for delivery later this year.

The ships will be stationed at strategic locations on the French coastline, one in

Brest, the other in Cherbourg. For more than 25 years coast protection has been provided by two well-known ocean- going salvage tugs, Abeille Flandres and

Abeille Languedoc, which were designed and built in Ulsteinvik in

Norway in 1978 and 1979 respectively and are also a UT-Design from Rolls-

Royce, type UT 507. The old tugs have successfully undertaken many difficult rescue operations over the years and will remain in service, moving to other loca- tions. The vessels are multipurpose sal- vage tug, coastguard and standby ves- sels. Among their principal roles will be assistance to vessels at sea, deep sea towing, salvage of vessels in distress, fire and flooding control and anti-pollu- tion activity. On trials, a bollard pull of just over 201 tons was achieved, togeth- er with a speed of 19.8 knots at maxi- mum continuous engine rating. The high speed will enable Abeille Bourbon to move quickly to an incident and its pow- erful pull should enable the tug to pre- vent a stricken vessel grounding and tow it to safety.

Abeille Bourbon is 262.4 ft. (80 m) long, and has a beam of 54.1 ft. (16.5 m) and a service draft of about 19.7 ft. (6 m). Two Kamewa Ulstein CP propellers in nozzles are powered by four medium speed diesels producing a total of 16,000 kW. Renk combining gearboxes with power take-offs for the shaft generators were bought in and supplied by Rolls-

Royce as part of the equipment package.

For steering and maneuvering there are two Rolls-Royce classic rudders with independent Tenfjord steering gear. Two

Kamewa Ulstein TT 2200 tunnel thrusters are located at the bow, each rated at 883 kW. There are two smaller tunnel thrusters type TT1650 of 515kW located in the skeg aft. The system is controlled and monitored by a UMAS V system.

On deck, Abeille Bourbon is essential- ly laid out as a deep sea towing and sal- vage tug. The main towing winch is a

Rauma Brattvaag two drum hydraulic unit. It has a 250-ton pull on the first layer and can hold 500 tons on the brake. Each winch drum can hold 1600 m of 80 mm wire rope.

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Main particulars - UT 515 Abeille Bourbon

Length, o.a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262.4 ft. (80 m)

Breadth, molded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54.1 ft. (16.5 m)

Depth, main deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26.2 ft. (8 m)

Draft, service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19.7 ft. (6 m)

Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16,000 kW

Bollard pull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201 tons

Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19.8 knots

Class Bureau Veritas - 1 3/3 * Hull* MACH, Tug/sal- vage tug, Unrestricted navigation, AUT, UMS,

Firefighting 2, Dynapos AM/AT

Vessels

New French Protection Vessel

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