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8 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News Defiance Products ® You want how much? You want it where? You want it when?...................... No problem really. I’ll just call Steelstran Industries. Those guys can handle anything! 35 Mileed Way • Avenel, New Jersey 07001 • 1-800-458-5722 • www.atlantic-group.com Towing Products, Mooring Wires, Synthetic Ropes, Pilot Ladders Atlantic Cordage is now the exclusive distributor of “Defiance” brand of marine products offering high strength fiber rope, including mooring lines, wire ropes, and heavy marine towing hardware. One call gets you quick delivery to any port in North America. Defiance Products ® Atlantic Cordage Corp. To view our complete catalogue of products, go to www.atlantic-group.com Defiance Hardware: Tonsburg Mooring Links Mandel Fairlead Shackles Towing Shackles Thimbles Defiance Wire Ropes: Mechanical splicing up to 5" diameter Mooring Wires - 6 x 37 Galvanized Crane Ropes - 4 x 39 and 35 x 7 Lifeboat Falls Fire Wires Gangway Falls Defiance Mooring Lines: • DanLine • Superflex • SuperDan • PolyDac Circle 205 on Reader Service Card Circle 239 on Reader Service Card Uncompromised Control WaterJet Bow/Stern Thrusters 75-2200 HP JT575AM HT600 Low Submergence Requirement Small Hull Penetrations Auxiliary Propulsion/ “Take Home” Capability Effective Thrust In Currents Proudly Made In The USA! ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Wins Ship Order ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems won an order to build two 3,400 TEU containerships for Hartmann. These ships have a 3,400-teu capacity of will be built at the company's yard Nordseewerke in Emden. With this new order, the order books of the shipyard include five units of the 2,700 TEU class and four units of the new 3,400 TEU class. Together with the existing Navy orders, these orders guar- antee a utilisation of the yard's production capacities until the year 2009. The newbuildings no. 558 and 559 will be built according to German Lloyd regulations and feature the following main technical data: Length, o.a. 748 ft. (228 m) Breadth, molded 105.6 ft. (32.2 m) Moulded depth 60.8 ft. (18.5 m) Carrying capacity approx. 42,250 tons Container capacity 3,414 TEU Main engine power 28,880 kW at 104 rpm Service speed approx. 23.75 knots Contract Signed for LNG Powered Ship Statoil has awarded Eidesvik Shipping AS the contract for the delivery of a supply ship fuelled by liquefied nat- ural gas (LNG). This is a Vik Sandvik 493 LNG-Avant ship of the same design as Viking Avant, which is already chartered by Statoil. The new ship is planned to transport supplies from Kristiansund to the Halten/Nordland area. "Statoil has two LNG-fuelled ships under existing contracts. They have performed to our full satisfaction, not least in terms of the envi- ronment. LNG-fuelled ships emit considerably less NOx and carbon dioxide than conventional diesel-powered ships," said Anne Therese Hestenes, senior vice presi- dent, operations support, in the Exploration & Production Norway business area. The emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) are expected to be cut by almost 90 percent, which represents 160 tons per year. This corresponds to the annual NOx emissions from 20,000 cars. The carbon emissions will be reduced by approx- imately 20 percent. The supply ship, which is under construction at the Westcon shipyard at Ølen in south- western Norway, is scheduled to be delivered in the autumn of 2007. Another ship will be used during the construction of the LNG-fuelled ship. Body plan of a 3,400 TEU Container ship. MR JULY2006 #1 (1-8).qxd 7/6/2006 3:00 PM Page 10
