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NASSCO To Build Two More

Sealift Ships For $436 M

National Steel and Shipbuilding

Company (NASSCO) of San Diego received $436 million in contract awards from the U.S. Navy to build two additional Strategic Sealift

Ships. A $265 million contract to build the first large, medium-speed,

RoRo ships for the Strategic Sealift

Program was awarded to NASSCO in September 1993. The most re- cent contracts represent the exer- cise of options on the second and third ships in what could poten- tially become a six-ship program with a total value of $1.3 billion.

The engineering and planning work required to build the ships has been underway for a year. Pro- duction of the lead ship will begin in third quarter 1995 with delivery scheduled in second quarter 1997.

Production of the second ship will begin in the third quarter of 1996 with delivery in the second quarter of 1998. The third ship will begin production in the second quarter of 1997 with delivery set for the first quarter of 1999. The ships will be a

NASSCO design.

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Coltec Wins $40 M Contract

The Fairbanks Morse Engine Di- vision of Coltec Industries received an order from Avondale Shipyards

Div. to produce engines valued at $40 million for the next two ships

Avondale is building for the Strate- gic Sealift Program.

The order includes eight 10-cylin- der Colt-Pielstick PC4.2 engines, each rated at 16,290-hp, and related equipment for the propulsion of the 950-ft. (289.5-m) ships. Delivery of the first four engines is scheduled for late 1996, and delivery of the second four for early 1997.

Fairbanks Morse Engine, based in Beloit, Wis., produces large, heavy- duty diesel, gas and dual-fuel en- gines for marine propulsion and many other applications. Coltec In- dustries is based in New York.

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Fairbanks Morse

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Modular Tanker Consortium

Reaches MARITECH

Development Agreement

The Modular Tanker Consortium (MTC) signed one of the first coop- erative agreements in the Advanced

Research Projects agency's (ARPA)

MARITECH program.

The MTC is a composed of nine

U.S. companies and one foreign com- pany: ABB Industrial Systems (Fin- land); BethShip Sparrow's Point

Yard; Bird-Johnson Company; In- ternational Marine Software Associ- ates; Kvaerner Masa Marine, Inc.;

McDermott Inc.; Seaworthy Systems;

SPAR Associates; Wartsila Diesel; and Wilson, Gillette & Company.

Together they will research the U.S. domestic and international markets for tank vessels which reportedly are environmentally friendly, safe and more economical to operate than traditional tanker designs.

The design and construction of the new tankers will be based on a modular concept, applied to entire sections of the ship: cargo midbody, bow and stern sections, deckhouses and machinery plants. The time and expense of constructing ships will be reduced as the engineering, design and manufacturing process is streamlined. Toward this end,

MTC will develop software to feed engineering data to computer-aided design and manufacturing data- bases, then transfer the design data to production labor and material estimating, scheduling, budgeting and control systems.

Wartsila Diesel and Kvaerner

Masa Marine will manage the 18- month project.

INTERTANKO: Zero Waste

At Sea Is Possible

Waste disposal from ships at sea can be eliminated, Philip Rankin of INTERTANKO the international association of independent tanker owners, told a conference of more than 100 European environmental- ists at the 1st Seas At Risk Confer- ence in Copenhagen, Denmark.

INTERTANKO is the sole inter- national shipping industry body at the "green" conference sponsored by the Danish government, and the association's participation builds on a record of recent exchanges of meet- ings with green groups in Europe and the U.S.

Addressing concerns over opera- tional oily waste being dumped at sea and ending up on beaches, Mr.

Rankin said operational dumping by ships can be stopped. However, "the establishment of adequate waste reception facilities in ports is an absolutely essential prerequisite for cutting waste disposal at sea," he said. Reception facilities in oil ports is a mandatory requirement under

MARPOL, the Marine Oil Pollution

Convention from the IMO. The Con- ference is expected to adopt a Decla- ration to present to the Ministerial

North Sea Conference next year, which will discuss measures to cut

North Sea pollution.

Greek Conference: Shore-

Based Facilities Stressed

At an INTERTANKO Conference held in Greece, discussion focused on OPA 90 questions. Speakers stressed the need for the "Partner- ship for Prevention" INTERTANKO launched to improve shoreside sys- tems and other factors which influ- ence the safety of shipping: vessel traffic control, better charting, im- proved standards of pilotage and tugs. Also, responsible selection of ships by charterers was pinpointed as an important contribution to im- proving industry conditions. "BEST VALUE FOR MONEY

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