DRYDOCK, June 2004 |
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Pride of America damage overshadows an otherwise healthy repair sector. ... LWB was not sitting on its hands in May waiting for that NCL decision over Pride. It was tackling a full slate of other major work. At one point in early May four headline-hitting ships were docked at LWB. Apart from Pride there was regular customer, the 70 327 grt Queen Elizabeth 2. She was last at the yard in 2001, but the latest 18 day visit was for routine overhaul costing Eur 18 mill, rather than conversion. Work included a change of propeller blades, boiler repairs, bow thruster overhaul, tank cleaning, deck and tank steel work, painting, the installation of a new service area and the refurnishing of passenger areas. Also berthed was the 69 153 grt Oriana for ten days repair, overhaul and refit costing a reported Eur 15 mill. Finally another ill-fated vessel, the 70 049 gt fire-damaged Norway was still at LWB awaiting news of her fate... Other recent big ship work at LWB of late has included the overhaul of the 75 951 grt cruise ship Costa Victoria, class work on the 1150 Conti container-ship Conti Pacific and guarantee work, for the second year running, on the Scottish ferryships Hrossey, of 11 486 grt, and Hamnavo, of 8780 grt. The work on Costa Victoria, which LWB completed in 1996, lasted 28 days and included general overhaul, steelwork and the installation of balconies for 242 cabins, the renewal of cabin decoration, enlargement of a buffet terrace on Deck 11 and the building of a 140 m long panorama promenade on the same deck. The work began while the ship was enroute to Bremerhaven from Savona and the yard said it was the first time that such installation had been carried out on a vessel still in service... |
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