 One more collection of technical information covering both significant ships of conventional and relatively smaller size delivered in 2009 - note that this is the twentieth release of the publication marking the beginning of an absolutely new era in the shipping industry and shipbuilding in particular.
The main volume will tell readers about Auriga Leader car carrier, Carnival Dream cruise vessel, Araon research ship featuring ice-breaking capabilities, Coral Methane gas tanker, Anafi Korean built liquid petroleum gas carrier, Beluga Houston heavy-lift ship, Corella Arrow general cargo carrier - largest in the world, Cristobal Colon suction hopper dredger, Express liquid natural gas re-gasification ship.
It also covers such interesting ship projects as Norgas Innovation LNG carrier, Maersk Weymouth container ship, Oasis of the Ship - the largest cruise ship, Prosco Irina tanker, Seri Balhaf diesel-electric liquid natural gas tanker featuring dual-fueling, Nordic Agnetha product tanker, Stolt Island chemical tanker, Tiranna car and truck carrier, Zenovia Lady tanker and others.
The supplementary volume addresses smaller ships such as the OSV Adams Challenge, CE2 patrol boat, Lambeth low-wash harbor patrol boat, Pilbara Thor support tug, Seaspan Resolution escort tug, Spinola terminal tug, Farasan catamaran ferry, SMBC Monterrey LNG support tug etc.
 Another release of the Significant Ships and Significant Small Ships. The present pack will cover the ships delivered in 2011. That year was challenging for the maritime shipping industry and shipbuilding in particular. However, some new technologies were introduced and many shipyards started to implement them.
It saw the completion and delivery of the world's largest bulk carrier Valemax, Algoma Mariner laker ordered by the Algoma Central Corp., BW Lotus very large crude oil carrier, CSCL Star container vessel of Panamax size built by Samsung shipyard, Boknafjord liquid natural gas transporting ferry, Jolly Diamante ro-ro ship, Iver Balance chemical tanker, Marina cruise ship, Mega Caravan heavy lifter, Norbe VIII drillship featuring capability to drill in ultra deep waters, Leonora Christina catamaran largest in its class, Orange Star juice carrier, Nord Vela bulk carrier, Seatruck Progress ro-ro ship, Piana ferry build in compliance with all SOLAS 2009 regulations, MPI Adventurer wind turbine ship, Vorstenbosh bunker tanker.
As you can see, there are so many of the ships built largest in their class, and this present particular interest. The Significant Small Ships volume will give you some information about Elastec 1 oil skimmer, Christopher Wheatley fireboat, Hornblower Hybrid passenger ferry boat, Liberty fast ferry, Ocean Pioneer fire fighting tug and many other interesting designs.
 Significant Ships and Significant Small Ships delivered in 2012. This set traditionally consisting of two books will provide interested readers with the technical information such as the particulars, some of the sketches or drawings, images and descriptions of the most remarkable vessels.
The conventional vessels covered in the pages of the first part include AIDAmar cruise ship, Coral Energy dual-fueled liquid natural gas carrier, Hyundai Together container carrier featuring capacity of the 13000 TEU, Al-Idrisi hopper suction dredger, Astomos Earth Japanese liquid petroleum gas carrier, Emerald Ace - a remarkable car carrier powered by the solar energy, Jules Garnier II nickel oil carrier unique in the class, K Hope very large oil carrier delivered for the SK Shipping company, MSC Altamira and MSC Athens container vessels, Stena Supreme eco-friendly tanker build by Samsung, Tanit ro-pax ship built in full compliance with all latest regulations, Tzini boxship featuring modern piracy protection arrangements, S. A. Agulhas II research vessel, Stolt Rhine inland tankers having significantly improved design, Ulusoy 14 ro-ro ship longest in her class, Zealand Juliana general cargo ship and many others.
The second volume will tell you about such relatively small ships as the Interceptor patrol boat, Esvagt Aurora standby ship specifically designed for operating in the Barents Sea, Sanaborg ice-breaking OSV, Ocean Wave tug and so many other nice designs.
 The 2013 release of the Significant Ships and Significant Small Ships. The first book contains technical information, sketches and particulars of such interesting vessels as the Bluebird Arrow chemical tanker, Brasil Voyager shuttle tanker designed and built specifically for operations in Brazil region, Castrone pipelayer, Cap Arnauti box ship featuring capacity of 6600 TEU, Deep Orient construction ship with DPs system installed, Hanjin California container vessel, Kaimon Maru Aframax-size tanker, Dragon Sky woodchip carrier Fa Xian 6 seismic ship designed by Rolls Royce.
In addition, it will tell readers about large cruise vessel Royal Princess, Seasmile container vessel equipped with the G-type engine, Silver Eight and Messina ferries built for Japan and Italy respectively, Karvounis crude oil tanker ship, Stavangerfjord and Viking Grace liquid natural gas ferry delivered for Norway and Finland, Zealand Amelia general cargo vessel and so many others.
The second book will provide information about Deurloo pilot boat, Ocean Tundra fire fighting tug featuring heavy duty design, Sea Breeze boat for crew transfer, Elizabeth Cook tour ferry boat, Sverri rescue vessel constructed of GRP, Seacor Lynx equipped with DP3 installed and others.
 There are so many measures in place implemented to ensure safe transportation of passengers oil as well as chemical cargoes, following the disasters of Exxon Valdez, Scandinavian Star and Herald of Free Enterprise which eventually led to new technological decisions such as the hatchcoverless design of the vessels. One of them, Norasia Fribourg was delivered at the very end of 1993 and that is why was not included in the present listing.
Therefore, the Significant Ships of 1993 would be better described as a consolidation year, mainly talking about the innovative design of ships. The owners and builders of tanker vessels had quite difficult time attempting to anticipate the extent of the internationally recognized requirements - some of those designs reflect the results of the individual interpretation of the necessary issues.
This release of the magazine provides the information and supplementary data for such famous vessels as the Arosa, Cosmo Delphinus, Eleo Maersk, Eos, Glenross, Knock Glune, Windward, New Vitality, Siam and New Wisdom crude oil carriers, Caledonian Isles, Juan J. Sister, Kong Harald, Spirit of British Columbia and Silja Europa passenger/vehicle ferry, Polar Eagle LNG carrier, Tokyo Senator container ship and many others.
 This volume opens the series of publication Significant Ships providing interesting information for the people with the interest in the shipping. This is the annually released publication describes in a single volume around fifty most important and innovative commercial ship designs that were delivered by the ship construction yards during the particular year.
The content of each of the issues includes a detailed cross-section of the vessel types supplemented with concise but comprehensive technical description of the vessel and extensive information on the principal particulars presented in a form of data table - these particulars normally include major suppliers of the shipboard equipment. In addition to that, detailed general arrangement of each vessel addressed in the volume has been provided together with the color photos.
In fact, the volumes making the Significant Ship series are providing a real wealth of useful information is a very accessible manner and this is what have gained worldwide popularity for this series. Most of the vessels covered have a length of more than hundred meters. The series will be of some interest for the ship modelers, as well, noting the amount of technical information it provides on so many vessels and presence of detailed plans. in total there will be more than twenty publications.
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