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T H E NAVAL A R C H I T E C T International Joumal of The Royal

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The new 17,540dwt mutipurpose cargo ship

Marion Green is one of a new series of four

vessels built by the Royal Schelde yard at Vlissingen (with two part-hulls and one complete hull subcontracted to the Sedef yard in Turkey) for the Dutch owner Genchart. Prominently seen here are her outfit of three Liebherr óOtonne CBW cranes offset to port. Tandem lifts of 120tonnes are possible. Liebherr is supply-ing similar cranes to three further ships on order at the Zonghua yard in China. A spe-cial feature on cranes and cargo handling appears on pages 67 and 68 of this issue.

26 Reggane: first of a new series of Algerian LPG tankers 27 Accurate friction lines: essential for understanding hull flow 31 LMG Marin leading short-sea project

55 New FSA-based bulk carrier sUidy

59 Spaameborg: launching new cargo-handling philosophies" 70 New chemical tankers from Fratelli Oriando

71 Using the Internet for commercial transactions

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7 Voyager of the Seas: the world's largest cruise liner 77 New ro-ro freight series for Fiimcan'iers (general

arrangement plan)

19 Single sewage-treatment solution from Evac 19 Further expansion sought by Pocadel 21 Great expectations for Hi-Fog

22 MacGregor package for Voyager of the Seas 32-51 China

32 Finnmaster: a new ro-ro freight ship from Jinling 34 Progress with Hainan rail f e i T y project

37 SSP podded propulsion for Shanghai Edward tanker 38 Iranian VLCC contracts at Dalian New Shipyard 38 Guangzhou to build Swedish ro-ro ferry 40 New LPG tanker series from Jiangnan 41 Germanischer Lloyd's Chinese success

45 SUMEC Marine: specialising in turnkey contracts 49 Advanced medium-size designs at Dalian

51 Innovative Alpha clutch system for German tankers 67-68 Cranes and cargo handling

57 BMH cement-handling system for new Japanese ship 67 Liebherr gantry cranes for new Dole container designs 6S Crane retrofit for tropical transfer duties

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5 Editorial comment: Enjoying technical success in China 4 News review

25 Book review S4 Offshore report

57 Trade and equipment news 84 Diary

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T H E NAVAL A R C H I T E C T International Joumal of The Royal

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Fruit and vegetable containers stowed in a forward hold on the recentiy completed

Dole Chile, first of two all-refrigerated

cel-lular designs for Dole Fresh Fruit, built in Germany by HDW. These ships are also noteworthy for the adoption of the hatch-coverless concept on all holds, except No 1. A special feature on this innovative design begins on page 6. 6 22 46 10-20 10 13 17 18 20 24-25 24 24 24 24 24 25 25 28-42 28 37 38 41 42 42 44-45 44 44 44 45 45 45 P R I N C I P A L A R T I C L E S

Dole Chile: aU-refrigerated and hatchcoverless Human factors in ship design and operation Rationalisation at Lloyd's Register

Diesel engine and gas turbine report Low-speed designs riding high Four-strokes strengthen competitiveness Gas hirbines gear up for wider market

Water injection and SCR cope with emission controls Electric drives stimulated by podded propulsor attractions

Noise and vibration control

ATL Consuhing acquired by Bureau Veritas Cmise liner comfoit fi-om Danish specialist Noise and vibration package from Lo-Rez Shorter couplings: same results, from Centa New module from LMS

DNV-approval for Metalastik New mounts from Rubber Design

Offshore technology

Integrity of FPSO hull stractures Specialist handling gear from MOS

Improving deepwater tectinology at Det Norske Veritas Novel drill-piled anchoring system

Integrated power and control system for new semi-submersible

New trio of drill ships for Transocean

Accommodation and interiors Busy times at Schindler Royal Viking Sun refit Ceiling systems from Lautex Design packages from Partner Heavy-duty flooring from Rikett Fire doors from McGeoch

5 Editorial comment: Re-think for container ship design? 4 News review

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C O N T E N T S J U L Y / A U G U S T 2000 T H E NAVAL A R C H I T E C T

International Joumal of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects

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Only an emergency deck shower, as required by modem legislation on chemical tankers, but this one has its piping insulated using the LR Indushi pre-fabricated technique. It is seen here on one ofthe series of 21,850dwt tankers just completed by Gdynia Shipyard in Poland for the German owner Rigel; this is the first time that this yard has used the Danish system, which was also supplied for cargo, ballast, and other lines. More news on activities at Polish shipyards appears in our special feature, which starts on page 8.

Napa Steel is a new tool launched by Napa Oy, of Finland, for the eariy stages of ship structural design and for managing the process from first sketches up to classifica-tion documents. With this new suite, it is claimed that a 3D product model of struc-tures can be generated in between 50 and 500 manhours, depending on ship type -said to be a dramatic reduction compared with other methods. A product model can be fransferred to detail design systems and class programs by using standard interfaces or proprietary data formats, and a 3D finite-ele-ment model can be prepared with the Napa FEM pre-processor. More infonnation on other new advances in the CAD/CAM sector can be found in our special update, which starts on page 21. P R I N C I P A L A R T I C L E S 5 7 41 44 8-16 8 13 14 15 16 21-26 21 21 21 23 24 25 25 25 30-39 30 35 36 39 3 4 19 26 28 56

Simplifying ballast control systems New orange-juice carrier order for Flora New directions for passenger ship safety

Multi-media technology hamessed for crew training

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Forging ahead at Gdynia Making a comeback at Gdansk

Large new chemical tankers on order at Szczecin CTO participation in EU-sponsored research projects Continued newbuilding success at Remontowa

CAD/CAM update

Autostructure: a new package from Autoship New name for Kockums Computer Systems Nauticus Onboard from Det Norske Veritas Consolidated branding at Dassault

ShipConstructor 2000: an enhancement from Albacore Version 6.5 for Perception

Design Enterprise project expands Foran in North America Upgrades for SARC suites

Propellers, thrusters, and steering gear Scale effects in the performance of a CLT propeller First Kappel propeller for Daedong-built tanker Versatile diesel-electric system for

new buoy-service ship

New propeller analysis tool from MARIN

Editorial comment: Optimism for azimuths News review

Trade and equipment news Letter to the editor Offshore report Diary

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Evolution in ship propulsion. Seen here is one of the two Mermaid podded propul-sors on the newly completed cruise liner

Millennium; they are the first of this

Kamewa/Alstom design to be installed on a ship. Millennium will also go down in marine history as the first modern-genera-tion merchant ship to be powered by gas turbines - in this case in a combined gas and steam turbine electric (COGES) an-angeraent. Full details appear in our special article on page 7.

The first five-masted sailing ship since the

Preussen of 1902 has just put to sea. The

133m-Iong Royal Clipper was built in Poland (using an acquired bare hull) for Star Clippers and outfitted in The Netherlands. As can be seen here, passen-gers seeking real excitement can climb to look-out stations on each mast. An article on this novel vessel appears on page 61.

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Millennimn: the first gas turbo-electric cmise liner Speeding the advance of virtual reality

Engström's new 'all-in-one' ro-ro freight class Royal Clipper: a five-masted sailing cmise liner Hinge ship: a novel US proposal to avoid

trans-shipment

New system for measuring shaft speed and torque Marin's refurbished depressurised tank ready soon New method of determining wind and wave effects on

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Blue Star 1 - a 27-knot ferry for Greek operator Preparing for the mammoth container liner

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25-33 Deck machinery

25 Specialised castings and equipment from Ansell Jones 27 Electric and hydraulic winches/windlasses from

Rauma Brattvaag

29 MacGregor cranes for hose-handling and other services 31 Dock-launched fast rescue boat

31 Kenz cranes for offshore duties

33 Choice of winch drive systems from Hadapa 38-59 Germany

38 Olympic Voyager: the first example of the Blohm & Voss slim hull

47 New Turkish freight ferry delivered by Flensburger 50 New Intering technique for countering parametric roll 53 First of new Superfasts completed by HDW

55 Support growing for the Siemens-Schottel SSP 56 Busy times at Meyer Werft

59 Difficult issues being tackled by VDMA 78-94 High-speed ferries

78 Deepsea freight promises profitable business 80 New hullforms on the horizon

82 Pentamaran hull for Pecan fast ro-pax and freight designs

84 Minimising the effects of wash

86 Austal extends portfolio to a versadlel25m type 88 Corsaires strengthen grip on Corsica trade 92 Prestigious opportunity for Afai in lOOm-plus arena 94 Taking the sting out of torsional vibration

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Editorial comment: Excellent prospects for LNG tankers News review

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International Journal of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects

Editor Tim Knaggs Assistant Editor Christopher Brown, BA Hons DTP Production Manager Philip Keeble Advertisement Manager Debbi Bonner Advertisement Consultant John Labdon

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Exciting new ideas are being developed in Finland for Arctic tankers, principally for exporting the huge oil and gas reserves known to lie along Russia's northern coast. Key features of these new vessels front Kvaerner Masa-Yards are the double-act-ing concept - a hull which can travel astern through ice - and the Azipod azimuthing propulsion pod, which can be turned through I SOdeg to 'drill' through ice when a ship is travelling astern. The first ships to feature aspects of the double-acting concept were a pair of twin-screw ice-breaking support ships (one of which is seen here in Masa's covered Helsinki yard), designed for working in the Caspian Sea. A special article on opening up the Northern Sea Route starts on page 6.

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Opening up the Northern Sea Route with novel ship designs

Targetting invisible smoke at M A N B&W

40-year quahty for new Hellespont VLCC/ULCC series Compact Azipod: podded propulsion for smaller ships

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Shipbiiiiding technology

10 Sandwich-Plate System: a modern shipbuilding technique

13 Caretronic: a software system for pipe production 13 Improving MARS through DYCONET

13 Novel use for T-Bulbs on new dredger Spain

16 LNG tankers head diversified order book at Astilleros Espaftoles

16 Bazan and Astilleros Espafloles merger by end of year 17 Shift to small vessels at Union Naval Valencia 18 Largest-ever tuna seiner from Barreras 19 Manises to export engines to Germany 19 STEP interface to SafeHull for Foran 19 Defcar: an easy-to-learn CAD/CAM system 19 Reintjes gearboxes for Trasmediterranea ferries

Products and chemical tankers 23 Choosing a cargo pump system

26 New French IMO H tanker on order at ENVC 26 Renk emergency propulsion coupling for Ceres

Hellenic tankers

26 MarineLine's newest coatings for Italian tanker

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4 News review 28 Offshore report

29 Trade and equipment news 40 Diary

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