Significant Ships

Editor: Nick Savvides

Assistant Editor: Bryan Chapman

Significant Ships is a quality annual publication providing an invaluable reference source to some of the very best in today's ship design and construction. It gives technical details of approximately 50 selected merchant ships of all classes and types, mostly of some 100m in length and above, which were completed last year by shipyards worldwide.

Significant Ships of 2009

Significant Ships of 2009 A selection of Newbuildings included in this year's volume of Significant Ships:

Araon - Icebreaking research vessel, 1st Korean built vessel of this type from Hanjin Heavy Industries for Korea Polar Research Industries

Cape Garland - 177,00dwt Bulk Carrier newly designed Cape size Dunkerque-max type from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd Chiba works for K-Line

Carnival Dream - 130,000gt largest cruise ship built in Italy from Fincantieri Monfalcone Shipyard for Carnival Cruise Line

Coral Methane - LNG, LPG and Ethylene 7500m3 tanker designed for regional distribution

Costa Luminosa - Cruise Liner, first in a new class for Costa fitted for "cold ironing" from Fincantieri Marghera (Venice) Shipyard

Discoverer Clear Leader - Drillship, 1st of five enhanced Enterprise-class ultra-deepwater units from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Shipyard for Transocean Offshore Deepwater

Oasis of the Seas - largest passenger cruise vessel, carrying 6,296 passengers, from STX Europe, Turku, Finland for Royal Caribbean International

Maas Viking - ro-ro cargo 11,636dwt, 1st of a series of 7 short sea vessels from Odense Lindo for Norfolkline BV

MSC Beatrice - worlds largest container ship from Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries for Mediterranean Shipping Company S A

STX Freesia - cape sized ore & coal carrier built to CSR from STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, jinhae yard, Korea for STX Pan Ocean

Plus many more...

Significant Ships of 2009 follows the format of the previous editions. Two pages are devoted to every entry; on the first page appears a photograph of the ship in question (all in full colour), followed by a concise technical description highlighting the key features, this is supported by a comprehensive tabular list, detailing technical data. On the following page a set of general arrangement plans appears.

Following the success of the previous editions, Significant Ships proves once again that it is the most comprehensive publication of its kind available.