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Feature 1 | FERRIES AND RO-RO VESSELS


Arno has carried out a number of ferry dockings and upgrades in the first quarter of the year. Tis January was a particularly busy month, with the yard docking P&O’s Pride of Burgundy and Pride of Dover, as well as three Norfolkline ships, Maersk Delſt, Maersk Dover and Maersk Dunkirk. In February ferry dockings included another P&O vessel Pride of Canterbury, while in March Arno docked the fast ferry Norman Arrow, the conventional ropax ships, SeaFrance Rodin and SeaFrance Moliere, as well as the freight ferry European Endeavour. Arno Dunkirk is located in the French


port’s East Harbour and is well situated for cross-Channel ferry operators needing to do planned or emergency work. Its graving dock No. 6 can accommodate vessels up to 295m in length while the facilities around it allow the yard to put stern ramps on the quay side. SRCT


Cap Finistere was repainted in new livery during a three week long refit at Arno Dunkirk. Ferry work stabilises for Turku yard


Part of the Estonian BLRT grupp, the Turku Repair Yard (TRY) is seeing a steady volume of ferry and ro-ro work primarily from Baltic Sea customers.


T


he TRY yard handled a number of significant ferry projects last year, the most notable of which


involved Viking Line’s Mariella, which was docked last September. According to managing director, Hans Sundqvist: “Tis was a scheduled dry docking with a lot of pipe, machine, steel and painting works. During the 10 days stop, there were 150-200 workers involved in the service works, excluding the owner’s own subcontractors.” Last year the yard also docked Finnline’s


ro-pax vessels Finnstar and Finnmaid for their yearly overhauls, the Eckerö Line ferry Nordlandia and Spliethof ’s ro-ro vessel Trica for standard drydocking work. Mr Sundqvist adds: “Te work load during 2009 was satisfactory but the price level was much lower compared to the previous year.” So far this year TRY has seen a similar


level of work. In January Finnline’s ro-pax vessels Finnfellow and Finnlady were drydocked at the yard for planned maintenance, including bottom cleaning


24 Shiprepair and Conversion Technology 2nd Quarter 2010


and pipe and valve works, and Tallink’s cruise ferry Star was drydocked in March. Te yard says it is nearly fully booked to the end of June, with ferry and ro-ro work representing a key part of the business. However, despite the positive start to the year, Mr Sundqvist says: “Competition


in the shiprepair sector will increase because many newbuilding yards are now also interested in ship repairs and this will influence the ferry and ro-ro vessel market as well. I believe that as a result the price level will be even lower than 2009.” SRCT


The Tallink ferry Star was docked at the Turku Repair Yard in March this year.


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