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Aker Finnyards' drive as part of a bigger group company includes options on up to four additional vessels of the luxury 72,000-gt class, and represents a major milestone in the U.S. shipyard industry's commercial newbuilding history. Indicative of the challenges presented in the design task, the owner's specification calls for 85,850-sq. ft. of open deck space, a four-deck atrium, panoramic viewing possibilities from the three uppermost decks, 77 percent of passenger accommodation in outside cabins, and private balconies for 64 percent of cabins. Within the body now of a united North European ship- building force, Aker Finnyards is reasserting itself as one of the Nordic region's leading practi- tioners in specialized vessel construction. The delivery of the 9,700 dwt RoRo freight ship Estraden inaugurated the 1999 delivery program, which will also see the imminent comple- tion of a seismic research vessel for a Norwegian contractor. In addition, the Finnish yard's turnover will reflect the com- missioning of a pair of 11,000- dwt RoRo trailerships, due to be phased into North Sea service in the latter part of the year. The Rauma yard's reaffirma- tion of its capa- bilities in the RoRo domain is pertinent both to the prognoses for newbuild demand and to the new endeav- ors and recent successes, by yards in South Korea and China, along with the estab- lished Japanese competition, on the European market. Most of the 50 RoRo equipped vessels delivered from Aker Finnyards and its prede- cessors since 1970 are still engaged in the original or simi- lar traffic for which they were designed. The latest issue from the company's modern shipyard at Rauma, the 2,270 lane-meter Estraden, has entered the North Sea and Baltic trade under char- ter from Finnish owner Engship to the Anglo-German operator ArgoMann Ferry Services. ArgoMann saw immediate virtue in the newbuild's combi- nation of capacity, cargo flexi- bility and speed for its Turku- Bremerhaven-Harwich-Cux- haven-Tallinn-Turku sailing rotation linking markets in Fin- land, Germany, the U.K. and Estonia. The broad stern ramp and inter-deck ramp connections between the three freight-carry- ing levels and hoistable car deck provide for efficient turnrounds, across a range of cargo permu- tations including a maximum trailer intake of 160 units. Nec- essarily incorporating the high- est, 1A ice-class for year-round Baltic navigation, Estraden has 14,000-kW of propulsive power engendered by twin Wartsila 46 engines for a service speed of 19 knots. In a further project entailing Finnish ownership and British chartering interests, Aker Finn- Aker Finnyards' development of advanced seismic research vessels has, in essence, helped fuel its own newbuild market. As the yard has continued to develop vessels which make oil discovery (and recovery) more cost effective, oil explorers are more likely to invest in new ships. yards is scheduled to deliver two larger, 20-knot trailerships in August and December this year. The vessels will become the mainstays of P&O North Sea Ferries' trade between Teesport and Zeebrugge, effect- ing a 35 percent increase in ser- vice capacity. At 2,600 lane- meters, the vessels will be the most capacious pure freight RoRos in the U.K.-Continental European traffic. The contract strengthens the reputation of a well-known Finnish name in the shortsea trades, that of Bore Line. The introduction of the two new- builds to its Belgian freight link will enable P&O North Sea Fer- ries to redeploy two RoRos already on charter from Bore, the 2,100 lane-meter Norking and Norqueen, to the Teesport/Rotterdam-Europort crossing. The upcoming delivery of a seismic research vessel to Oslo- based Aker Geo reflects the ver- satility of Aker Finnyards, which has used a Romanian- built trawler hull of 223 ft. x 46 ft. (68 m x 14 m) as the basis for the creation of a sophisticat- ed, $54.3 million newbuild of 276 ft. x 61 ft. (84 m x 18.5 m) final dimensions. The contract marked a return by the Finnish yard to a field where it has a track record of 20 vessels for scientific, geotechni- cal, biolog- ical, Antarctic and seis- mic research, and signals the market entry by Aker Geo at a time when all the main seismic ship opera- tors have new ships coming into service or on order. It is also illustrative of the shipbuilder's policy of maintaining an income stream from the offshore sector in its manifold forms. It is anticipated that Aker Finnyards' niche market strengths and build competitive- ness will be enhanced over time as a result of the exploitation of synergies within the Aker Yards group. 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