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fun of us and said that those ships wouldn’t
go anywhere; but they were so exceptional.
The best daily consumption in this class and
size had been 24 tonnes,
whereas ours was just 17
tonnes. That was a major
reduction, considering that
the greatest costs for that
class of ship were crew and
fuel.”
These words are echoed
by Cadiou, who concludes:
“We have succeeded in
selling 130 ships. That
That was a great
venture, a great
success and
an extremely
enthusiastic
adventure.
was a great venture, a great success and an
extremely enthusiastic adventure, I must
say. We were the very first to do it. It looks
obvious today, but at the time there was
nothing obvious. It was heavily criticised;
people said it was impossible. There were
the old arguments from the 90s about
hydrodynamics. But now, after more than ten
years, we can smile at all this.”
“My encounter with Deltamarin was both a
personal and intellectual delight. Together we
managed to build something that was unique
and to invent the first real eco-designs in the
shipbuilding industry.”