MacGregor secures series of conversion contracts

Sweden’s MacGregor Group – part of Cargotec Corp – has signed around €6 million worth of contracts, which include electrically-driven hoistable car decks for Finnlines’ 25,654gt freight roro sisters, Finnpulp and Finnmill, and conversion work for two-tier loading on the Superfast IX ferry, chartered by Marine Atlantic in Canada.

MacGregor’s roro conversion team will supply approximately 3,000m² of electrically-powered plywood car decks to the two Finnlines vessels. The project will be carried out at a north European shipyard starting in mid-December this year and should be completed by the end of February 2009.

MacGregor was partly chosen because Finnlines had already placed orders for this access specialist to supply electrically powered car decks for its six newbuildings on order at Jinling Shipyard in China.

In a further project for this business unit, the Estonian Tallink Group has awarded MacGregor a contract to convert the bow and stern ramp arrangements to two-tier loading on Superfast IX, which has been chartered for five years by Marine Atlantic.

For this contract MacGregor is delivering a relocated stern ramp for the main roro level (Deck 3), a new stern ramp on Deck 5 (upper deck), and a new bow ramp, also on Deck 5. The conversion work will be finalised by the end of October this year.PST