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a new class of handy-sized bulkers. We,
Barry Rogliano Salles, did a market study
in order to define what would be the best
main particulars of that ship, and what our
competition was.”
“Having fixed the new main particulars,
we decided to make a better ship. That ship
should have 10% more deadweight, 10%
more carrying capacity and 10% less fuel
consumption. That was the engineering
criteria we put forward.”
“We set our goals and began our journey,
but first we wasted about a year with all the
initial toing and froing,” says Markku Kanerva,
reminiscing about Deltamarin’s side of the
story. “Everyone was a bit on edge about
working with a broker, because that way of
working was so different. In a way, we were
tied to this broker.”
“Our objective was to be better than the
best Japanese shipyards at the time. We
investigated how the South Korean and
Japanese shipyards worked and learned that
they employed extremely traditional methods
in ship design and practices. They did as they
always had done – they had a set of basic
rules that nobody questioned. We made the
decision to deviate from those rules and at
the same time started cooperating with the
Hamburg model testing facility HSVA that
Product tanker Jurmo,
one of the vessels
built for the Finnish
energy company Neste
at Jinling Shipyard in
China. (PHOTO: PÄR-HENRIK
SJÖSTRÖM)