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In the Shipyard

New vessels, contracts and designs

MBARI: R/V David Packer

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is embarking on a new chapter in its ocean research with the construction of a state-of-the-art ship. The new research vessel will be named in honor of MBARI’s founder, David Packard.

The R/V David Packard will be 50 meters (164 feet) long and 12.8 meters (42 feet) wide with a draft of 3.7 meters (12 feet).

It will support a crew of 12, plus a science crew of 18. MBARI has selected Freire Shipyard in Vigo, Spain, for the construc- tion of the R/V David Packard, Glosten for design work.

The R/V David Packard will replace MBARI’s current ? agship research vessel, the R/V Western Flyer, which will be retired in fall 2022. MBARI’s new research vessel will honor Silicon Valley pioneer David Packard, who founded

Hewlett-Packard (HP) in a Palo Alto, California, garage with

Bill Hewlett, and is largely credited with sparking the tech revolution. His philanthropic endeavors included funding the creation of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 1984. Three years later, Packard founded MBARI as an independent institution

The new RV honors MBARI’ founder David Packer.

committed to pursuing cutting-edge ocean science and engi- neering programs.

VLEC Seri Elbert Delivered to MISC

MISC Berhad (MISC) has taken delivery of its sixth Very

Large Ethane Carrier (VLEC) – Seri Elbert, from Hyundai

Heavy Industries (HHI) shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. Seri

Elbert and her sister vessels - Seri Everest, Seri Erlang, Seri

Emei, Seri Emory and Seri Emperor are a series of second generation VLECs – all of which were acquired by MISC from Zhejiang Satellite Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (STL) in July

MISC Photographer: Mild Design/Stena Line Glosten © 2021 MBARI 2020.

VLEC Seri Elbert Delivered to MISC.

Stena Livia Joins the Baltic Sea Fleet

Stena Line announced the latest addition to its Baltic Sea ? eet.

The 186m long Visentini RoPax vessel Stena Livia will initial- ly join sister vessel Stena Flavia on the Nynäshamn-Ventspils route from mid-April. Later this year the pair will replace the existing tonnage on the ferry route between Travemünde and

Liepaja, adding 40 per cent freight capacity and shorten the crossing time substantially. During 2021 Stena Line is expand- ing their Baltic Sea operations with modern and large RoPax vessels being added to the two ferry routes from Latvia to

Sweden and Germany. The routes, Nynäshamn-Ventspils and

Travemünde-Liepaja, was acquired by Stena Line in 2012, and is today an important part of the European logistics net- work, connecting the Baltics, Russia and CIS countries with

Germany and Sweden as well as the rest of Europe.

Stena Livia was built in 2008 at the Cantieri Navale Visen- tini shipyard in Italy and is a modern large RoPax vessel with capacity of 750 passengers, 200 cars and/or 115 trailers. The vessel has earlier sailed under the names of Étretat and Nor-

Stena Livia Joins Baltic Fleet.

man Voyager.

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