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60 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News ? JUNE 2013 The YearbookGerman Shipbuildingbuilds is the prototype of a new rescue cruiser, Harro Koebke, for the German maritime SAR-Rescue, as well as a workboat, a tug and a buoy tender for the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration. The shipyard also supplied the complete package for the in Cartage-na-built patrol boat Arc 20 De Julio, a ship for the Co- lombian Navy. In Bremen-Vegesack, Lürssen Shipyard continued with the production of megayachts that quite frankly are in a class of their own. The country?s leading yacht builder delivered the 147m Topaz as its second largest new build, while sister company Kröger Shipyard deliv-ered two, Ace and Quatrelle. For capacity extension rea- sons Lürssen purchased another ß oating dock, a ß oating dock in Wilhelmshaven based navy arsenal which has been used for repair of megayachts.Nobiskrug Shipyard in Rendsburg also delivered lux- ury yachts: the 74m Mogambo and the project 783. No-biskrug?s order book contains megayachts of 60, 74 and more than 100m; and the yacht Siren came back into the covered building halls for class and renovation works.Leer-based Ferus Smit Shipyard held steady with the decidedly less glamorous but still important simple de-signed freighters, supplying in 2012 a multi-purpose ship Fuldaborge, while laying the keel fro the 23,000 dwt newbuild Reestborg, which is due for delivery later this year. Productive Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) Sea going merchant navy new buildings are spread within the German states as follows: Niedersachsen accounts for 10 new builds from four shipyards; Schleswig-Holstein accounts for eight newbuilds from three yards; and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Bremen and Hamburg each have one. Two decades after the formidable modernization pro- cess within the East-German shipbuilding industry, the percentage related to the total German production is declining. The order books contains only two Swed- ish coast guard boats, to be supplied by P+S shipyards, which went into insolvency in November 2012. The delivery of the two remaining patrol boats are sched-uled for February and April 2013. Two car ferries out of Stralsund haven been rejected because of technical problems. Shipbuilding operations resumed in early January at P+S Werften?s Volkswerft Stralsund ship- yard following an 11 week break due to insolvency. The good news came on the heels of a report by insolvency administrator Berthold Brinkmann updating develop-ments at P+S Werften in Stralsund and Wolgast to a meeting of creditors and the creditor committee. Work at the Peene shipyard in Wolgast was able to continue uninterrupted during the previous proceedings. On November 28, 2012, the state of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern approved the debtor-in-possession Þ nanc-ing for $56.5m that the insolvency administrator had requested. This was possible within the framework of the liquida-tion plan, given the scope of the rescue aid granted. Re-garding the two RoPax ferries moored at the shipyard?s dock in Stralsund, which originally had been ordered by Danish shipping company Scandlines, the administrator is now holding a number of talks because the number of parties interested in those two ships is growing.At the Peene shipyard in Wolgast, which was sold to the Lürssen Group in December 2012 with an effective date of May 1, 2013, shipbuilding activities are pro-ceeding as planned. Because of their insolvency also the Hamburg based Sietas Shipyard could deliver only the suction dredger Eke Möbius ? one double-end-ferry for a Danish cli-ent is not completed yet. Lürssen Shipyard supplied a big megayacht and increased the overall production of the German shipyards. A number of tradition-rich ship- yards like e.g. Lindenau in Kiel, Peters in Wewels ß eth or Mützelfeldt in Cuxhaven but also the group works of Thyssen-Krupp have not delivered any new buildings in the last year. Hamburger Lloyd Third 4,600 TEU ?Wide-Beam? Boxship In 2008, Hamburger Lloyd was the Þ rst tramp shipping company worldwide to commission four ?4,600 TEU wide-beam container ships? from the Chinese Shanghai Shipyard and Jiang-nan Shipyard. The Þ rst two newbuildings, RHL Conscientia (CCNI Aysen) and RHL Concordia (CCNI Andes) were put into service in 2012 as state-of-the-art container vessels. In 2013, two sister vessels are to follow, so that the RHL ß eet will then comprise of 16 units. On May 2, 2013, Reederei Hamburger Lloyd took command of the third of four 4,600 TEU Containership Newbuildings (hull No. H1025A) from CSSC Shanghai, Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. Another vessel of the same type (No. H1026A) is expected to follow in August 2013. The vessel was named RHL Constantia by Ms. Christine Wegner, lawyer and partner in the shipping law Þ rm Cyrus Ma- kowski. RHL Constantia entered a time charter for account of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., Tokyo, on May 15, 2013, and will trade between the Far East and the U.S. West Coast under the command of Captain Jurij Savliukevic. M/V RHL Constantia is 259.8 x 37.3m and car- ries 57,000 tons at a design draft of 12.5m. It can take 4,620 TEU of cargo, of which 1,856 TEU in the holds and 2,764 on deck, up to seven tiers high. Altogether, there are 600 reefer sockets available on deck, and the ship is powered via a 36,240 kW MAN main engine, type 8K80ME, which allows the ship a cruising speed of 23.3 knots. Reederei Hamburger Lloyd GmbH & CO KG was founded in 2007 by experienced mer- chants and shipowners from Hamburg, and today its head ofÞ ce is situated in the heart of this North German seaport. Reederei Hamburger Lloyd (RHL) has special- ized in the container shipping sector and cooper- ates closely with the shipping activities of Hansa Hamburg Shipping International GmbH & Co. KG, to whom it is linked through its shareholder structure. The ß eet managed by Reederei Ham- burger Lloyd consists of 14 top-modern container ships, all certiÞ ed according to ISM (Interna- tional Safety Management). All vessels operate worldwide and have been built under the supervi-sion of Germanischer Lloyd (GL). Rescue cruiser Harro Koebke from Fassmer shipyard. MR #6 (58-65).indd 60MR #6 (58-65).indd 605/31/2013 10:03:43 AM5/31/2013 10:03:43 AM