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VESSELS 1 Image: Wärtsilä 1: New Shuttle Tanker Design for the French ? ag, and the ? rst of three 400 than six months. The LCS program is at in 2019. The christening ceremony was

A new shuttle tanker concept developed x 59 meter, 20,600 TEU-containerships. full rate production and is continuing its held at Vigor’s Harbor Island Shipyard by Teekay will offer a new level of in- Advanced tech onboard includes: momentum at Austal USA with seven in Seattle, where the new 144-car ferry novation, according to Wärtsilä, whose • a Becker Twisted Fin to improve the ships currently under construction. Tul- has entered the ? nal stages of construc- smart technology solutions will be propeller’s performance, helping to re- sa (LCS 16), Charleston (LCS 18) and tion and preparation ahead of sea trials featured on the new vessels. To date, duce the energy expenditure for a 4% Cincinnati (LCS 20) are preparing for starting in mid-2018.

Teekay has ordered four of these ‘next reduction in CO2 emissions; trials. Final assembly is well underway Suquamish is the fourth funded Olympic generation’ ships, each to be built at the • a new-generation engine that reduces on Kansas City (LCS 22) and Oakland Class vessel, built to replace the aging,

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) yard in oil consumption (-25%) and fuel con- (LCS 24) and the ? rst aluminum was midcentury-era Evergreen State Class

South Korea. In addition to operating on sumption for a 3% average reduction of cut on the future USS Mobile (LCS 26) vessels. The vessel’s name honors the lique? ed natural gas (LNG) as the pri- CO2 emissions; and on December 12. Austal also recently Suquamish people, a tribe that has in- mary fuel, the dual-fuel engines will also • a system for the treatment of ballast received new construction contracts for habited the central Puget Sound for ap- be able to run on a mixture of LNG and water by ? lters and UV lamps. LCS 28 and LCS 30 – two of the three proximately 10,000 years. The Suqua- recovered volatile organic compounds LCS awarded in FY 2017. mish name translates into the “people of (VOC) – the gas evaporating from the the clear salt water” in Southern Salish 3. LCS Manchester oil cargo tanks during loading. The seventh Independence-variant Lit- Lushootseed language.

4. WSF Christens Suquamish toral Combat Ship (LCS) built by Aus- The Washington State Department of 2: Antoine de Saint Exupery tal, Manchester (LCS 14), completed Transportation (WSDOT) christened 5. Crystal Endeavor Build Starts

CMA CGM has taken delivery of its new acceptance trials late last year. LCS 14 Suquamish, its fourth Olympic Class MV WERFTEN last month celebrated ? agship CMA CGM Antoine de Saint will be the second Independence-variant auto/passenger ferry, to serve passengers the commencement of the construc-

Exupery, the biggest containership ? ying LCS Austal delivers to the Navy in less on the Mukilteo/Clinton route beginning tion on Crystal’s new luxury expedition 7 6 Photo: Stena Bulk Modutech Marine 62 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • FEBRUARY 2018

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