French orders to foreign shipyards

16
Mistral
600 cabins
cruiseship,
blt 1999
by Chantiers
de l’Atlantique,
operated
by Festival Cruises.
The other shipyard in the group, Alstom Leroux Naval,
distinguished itself by picking up orders for two additional
high-speed ferries for the Greek owner NEL Lines,
one capable of 40 knots with a carrying capacity of
1,800 passengers and the other capable of 36 knots and
capacity for 800 passengers.
This shipyard also delivered the following vessels:
• "Gotland", a 700-passenger/35-knot high-speed ferry
for the Swedish shipowner Gotland.
• Three 30-tonne bollard pull tugs for the Tunisian
Merchant Marine and Ports Office.
• Ten 40-tonne bollard pull tugs for the French shipowner
Les Abeilles.
The Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie shipyard
delivered the following vessels:
• "Kiesse", a 2,730 bhp multi-purpose supply vessel for
the French company Surf.
• Four naval patrol boats to Kuwait.
Piriou took the following orders:
• 2 tuna seiners and 7 trawlers for French and Irish owners.
• A refrigerated shrimper for Madagascar.
• A crew boat for Surf.
This shipyard also delivered the following vessels:
• "Weza" and "Malila", 2,730 bhp multi-purpose supply
vessels for Surf.
• "Salama Djema IV", a ro-pax ship to Mayotte.
• 4 fishing vessels for New Caledonia and a trawler for
the French owner Freullet.
• "Surfer 197", a crew boat for Surf.
Germany
Germany maintains its leadership in Europe, just ahead
of Italy with 1.98 million gt in its orderbook. The country
also kept the fourth position worldwide behind
China, but it is losing ground, as the rest of Europe.
There are four dominant vessel types in the orderbook
this year:
• Containerships, still the largest part of the orderbook,
but dropping from 44 to 37%.
• Cruiseships, which went from 23 to 28% of total
orders.
• Ro-pax vessels, moving ahead of cargo ships and
advancing from 5 to 13%.
• Ro-ro vessels are stable at 9%.