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Coal-Burning Bulkers

Ordered From Yards

In Italy And Japan

Orders were placed recently for the first four of a new genera- tion of coal-burning ships. Two 75,000-dwt coal-fired bulk carri- ers have been ordered by Bulk- ships Ltd., the ship-owning arm of Australia's Thomas Nation- wide Transport Group, from the

Monfalcone Division of Italy's

Italcantieri Shipbuilding Group.

Two additional 75,000-dwt, coal- fired bulkers have been ordered by the Australian National Lines from Mitsubishi Heavy Indus- tries' Nagasaki yard. All four ships will be classed by Lloyd's

Register of Shipping.

These ships will all be pow- ered by steam turbine plants sup- plied by coal-fired boilers. They will use well established methods of coal burning, as well as highly automated handling of their bulk cargoes.

Several economic studies have shown that the world demand for coal as an energy source will increase from now until the end of the century. This makes this first generation of coal-burning ships of particular technical im- portance.

Lloyd's Register has shown keen interest in the use of coal as an alternative fuel for mer- chant ships. The British classifi- cation society recently published a booklet on the subject titled

Guidance Notes for the Burning of Coal in Ships' Boilers.

CDI Marine Awarded

Navy Design Contracts

Totaling $3.2 Million

CDI Marine Company announc- es the recent award of two ma- jor contracts to supply design services to the U.S. Navy. The first is a $1.3-million, one-year contract to provide design and engineering support for Navy surface ships to Supervisor of

Shipbuilding, Jacksonville, Fla.

CDI Marine has been providing design services to this Navy of- fice almost continuously since the first such award in Jacksonville in 1973.

A contract with Naval Ship

Systems Engineering Station (NAVSSES), Philadelphia, is also significant to the continued growth of CDI Marine. This contract, to- taling $1.9 million, requires CDI

Marine to furnish engineering and support services for Naval ships' propulsion system and elec- trical power generation and dis- tribution systems. Management of this contract will be assigned to CDI Marine's Philadelphia area office in Voorhees, N.J.

CDI Marine Company, head- quartered in Jacksonville, has grown into one of the nation's largest naval architectural and marine engineering firms. The

Jacksonville office is the hub of a network of permanently staffed design offices located in the Phil- adelphia area, Norfolk area, San

Diego, Boston, Groton, Conn.,

Charleston, S.C., and Pascagoula,

Miss.

Offshore Ship Services Seeks

Title XI On Tug/Supply

Boat To Cost $3.2 Million

Offshore Ship Services, Inc. of

Belle Chasse, La., has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a twin-screw tug/supply vessel.

Rysco Shipyard Inc. of Blounts- town, Fla., has been designated to build the 180-foot vessel, with delivery scheduled for October 1981. Offshore Ship Services plans to operate the vessel in U.S. and foreign waters servicing offshore oil and gas drilling rigs.

The Title XI guarantee, if ap- proved, would cover $2.8 million, or 87V2 percent of the vessel's estimated cost of $3,200,000.

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