Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven MO Ruediger Pallentin was quoted as saying in early May: "The yard is well booked with repair contracts. All the docks are full". Among them, in the yard's big Floating Dock 111, was the 45,362dwt container ship Norfolk Express for bulbous bow repairs. She ran aground off Wilhelmshaven and was one of several accident-prone boxships to dock at German repair yards recently. Two former ferries, Wind Ambition (ex Palau) of 13,336gt and Wind Resolution (ex Sesme) of 8,893gt -both now floating hotel accommodation ships -docked together in the Kaiserdock 11 for survey, steel and pipe repairs and class renewal. Another passenger ship caller was the 6,417gt National Geographic Explorer, formerly Hurtigruten's Midnatsol. Sold and converted into a Polar expedition ship in 2008, she came for three weeks of "comprehensive technical and class work".
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