Feature 1 | DANISH MARINE INDUSTRIES Odense yard spreads its wings
Odense Steel Shipyard is expanding its portfolio, with an orderbook now including significant work from sources other than parent A. P. MØller- Maersk. Report by Henrik Segercrantz.
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. P. MØller-Maersk Group subsidiary Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd (OSS) is by far Denmark’s biggest shipyard
and a leading player in containership design and production. Te group’s main facility, at Lindø on Fyn island is currently expanding its product range. Te shipyard built its first ro-ro container
vessels in 1979 and its first container vessel in 1980, having previously focused mainly on producing tankers for its owner. Te first Panamax container vessel, with a capacity of 4300TEU, was delivered in 1988, and the first double-hull 300,000dwt VLCC crude oil carrier in 1992. Since the mid-1990s, the yard has built around 60 containerships altogether. In 1996 the yard built the world’s first
post-Panamax containership with the new standard breadth of 42.8m and 6000TEU capacity. Ten, in 2006 and driven by its ground-breaking parent, the yard delivered Emma Maersk, the first ever 11,000TEU containership. In January this year, the eighth sister ship to Emma Maersk in the yard’s E- class series was delivered, the newbuilding L210Eugen Maersk. OSS employs 5400 people in all. At the
Lindø yard there are 3100 staff, about 500 covering administrative tasks and 2600 in production, plus trainees. Te 108hectare yard has three newbuilding docks, one for building VLCCs and ULCCs up to 600,000dwt, and two drydocks for building vessels up to 200,000dwt. Te biggest building dock measures 415m x 90m x 11m. The water depth is 8.5m. A liſting capacity of up to 1000tonnes is arranged with a 110m high gantry crane spanning 148.5m. Te two other newbuilding docks measure 300m x 45m x 10m. Water depth is 7.5m and the maximum block liſting capacity is some 200tonnes. In the 1990s the company acquired
production facilities in Estonia, Lithuania, and eastern Germany, to lower production costs of primarily steel work and superstructures. According to Christian Schmidt, OSS senior vice president design and engineering: ‘At the
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The 11,000TEU containership Eugen Maersk at the outfitting quay of Odense Steel Shipyard (Photograph by Jon Nordahl).
Lindø shipyard we produce the grand blocks which are easier to automate.’ Loksa Shipyard in Estonia specialises in the production of pontoon lift-away hatch covers and non- curved steel blocks weighing up to 100tonnes. Loksa produces all the flat panels for Lindø, as well as blocks for other yards. Baltija Shipbuilding Yard in Klaipeda
specialises in supplying outfitted superstructures and man-hour heavy blocks, such as bow and stern sections, for Lindø. It also supplies blocks for external clients. Te yard recently delivered the eighth, and last, superstructure for the Emma Maersk series. The deck house, including furniture, was transported to Denmark in two pieces, the lower and upper parts. OSS also acquired the UAB Baltic
Engineering Centre, a maritime consulting engineering company based in Klaipeda, Lithuania, with a staff of 55.
Orderbook As in former times, ordering from its
shipowning parent provides a mainstay of the OSS orderbook. Six 7500TEU containerships are on order for Maersk, due for delivery this year (the first ship in the series, L211, Margrethe Maersk, was delivered 8 March) to February 2009 (L216). The vessels are near sisters to the previous G-class series of six ships built in 2005 and 2006. Tese 115,700dwt vessels have a length of 367.3m, breadth 42.8m, depth 24m, and maximum draught 15m. Capacity is 7668TEU at 14tonnes weight. A Wärtsilä Sulzer 12RT- flex96C common-rail engine produces 68,640kW and a maximum speed is 25knots. In contrast to the previous vessels, the deck house design of the six newbuildings will have cabins facing the side of the ship, towards the containers, instead of forward. However, primarily to level out a
temporary dip in production volume at its biggest newbuilding dock (no 3), and to provide work by also utilising one of the two other smaller building docks (no 2) at the yard, last year OSS snared significant external
The Naval Architect April 2008
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