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BOATS & BARGES BOATS & BARGES $13-Million, Five-Boat Contract

Completed By Moss Point Marine

With Delivery Of Tugs To Jordan

Deutz MWM Diesels To Power

Four Harbor Tugs For Mexico

The General Motors EMD-powered tugs Amman (shown above) and Aqaba will work in the

Gulf of Aqaba helping to maneuver ships to anchorage and to and from piers.

Point Marine, Inc., Escatawpa,

Miss., to the Jordan Ports Corpora- tion of the Hashemite Kingdom of

Jordan.

The new tugs, Amman and Aqa- ba, are each 106.5 feet in length, with a 34-foot molded breadth, and 16-foot molded depth.

Each is powered by two General

Motors EMD-8-645F7BA engines developing a total of 3,200 bhp driv- ing through Reintjes VAL1850 re- duction gears with a ratio of 4.454:1.

Auxiliary and ship's service power is provided by two Caterpillar 3406DITA 200-kw generators. The boats are also equipped with con- trollable pitch propellers inside steerable Kort nozzles.

Each tug is also equipped with four water/foam fire monitors with a capacity of 1,600 gpm, and each boat has accommodations for a crew of eight.

The tugs made the 8,000-mile trip from New Orleans to Aqaba on their own bottoms with crews provided by Morrill and Associates, New Or- leans. The boats' permanent crews are now being trained in vessel oper- ations and maintenance by training teams supplied by Moss Point Ma- rine, Inc.

The other vessels in the U.S. AID (Aid for International Develop- ment) contract were two 60-foot steel towboats built by Moss Point

Marine, Inc., and one 50-foot steel and aluminum pilot boat built by

Equitable Shipyards, Inc., New Or- leans, a sister shipyard to Moss

Point Marine in the Trinity Marine

Group.

Inc., and Trinity-Beaumont.

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Marine Group,

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Astilleros Unidos de Mazatlan,

S.A. de C.V. (AUMAZ) in Mazatlan,

Mexico, recently delivered the tug

Pemex LI (51) to the Mexican oil company Pemex. The vessel is the first of four harbor tugs powered with propulsion and gensets sup- plied by Deutz MWM.

Main propulsion for the tug is provided by twin V8 diesels in the 628 series, each with 1,180 hp (1,600 kw) at 1,000 rpm. Both generating sets are driven by Deutz MWM 226 series diesels.

The Pemex LI, based on a design by Muetzelfedtwerft in Cuxhaven, will be used in the port of Topolo- bampo. The entire imported propul- sion package, including engines, twin Schottel rudder-props, and re- lated equipment, was supplied from

Germany.

The remaining three tugs from this new generation will be delivered by 1991. This will bring to 11 the number of similarly designed tugs operating in Mexico's harbors with

Deutz MWM propulsion and gener- ating diesel engines.

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MWM,

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The Deutz MWM-powered Pemex LI is the first of four harbor tugs being built for Mexico by

Astilleros Unidos de Mazatlan.

The Trinity Marine Group has completed a five-boat, $13-million contract with the delivery of two 106-foot docking tugs from Moss

Other shipbuilding companies in the group are Halter Marine, Inc.,

Gretna Machine and Iron Works,

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