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Pieter Schelte, part-designed by Swan Hunter, a British shipbuilder, for the Swiss firm Allseas-will be a 382-metre, $1.7 billion monster capable of lifting a staggering 48,000
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It's also proving an awkward matter for the Dutch government, which gave a subsidiary of the ship's builder, Allseas, a $1-million tax break for its part in designing the ship.
Macleans.ca 2008
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The founder of Allseas, Edwin Heerema, has named his ship after his dad, Pieter who was a a renowned maritime engineer.
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Protesters targeted Shell Oil's office in Dublin as well as the London offices of Allseas, the owners of the world's largest pipe-laying vessel.
FSRN - Comments 2008
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Edwin Heerema, founder of Allseas, intends to name the ship after his father, a renowned maritime engineer who was prominent among Dutch collaborators with the Nazis, The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday.
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The new ship, to be used for laying oil pipes and decommissioning North Sea oil rigs, will be 1,253 feet long and 384 feet wide, making it the world's largest in area, Allseas says.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Associated Press Writer Toby Sterling 2008
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The new ship, to be used for laying oil pipes and decommissioning North Sea oil rigs, will be 1,253 feet long and 384 feet wide, making it the world's largest in area, Allseas says.
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The new ship, to be used for laying oil pipes and decommissioning North Sea oil rigs, will be 382 metres long and 117 metres wide, making it the world's largest in area, Allseas says.
Macleans.ca 2008
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It gave Allseas 'Netherlands subsidiary a $1 million tax break for its part in designing the ship, and now acknowledges it didn't notice the name until a Dutch journalist, Ton Biesemaat, raised the issue.
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Jeroen Hagelstein, an Allseas spokesman, has rejected the criticism, saying Heerema's father switched sides and joined the resistance in 1943 because he grew to abhor the "ideas of the Nazis."
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