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that proper securing arrange- ments are employed; •Always secure the nut to the bolt; •Make sure that the weld has been carried out properly, particularly checking to ensure that both the bolt and nut are weldable; and •If screws are used in the securing arrangements, the material used is to be carefully selected in order to avoid galvanic corrosion of nuts and bolts.

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BIMCO:

Setting A Course Toward

Bulk Carrier Safety

BIMCO announced its first resi- dential course on Bulk Carrier

Safety: The Practical

Implementation and Implications of New Bulk Carrier Regulations.

The course is scheduled for March 16-18 in Copenhagan.

BIMCO aims to bring technical managers, naval architects, new- building departments and the

Meyer Werft Delivers

Sinabung

Meyer Werft of Papenburg,

Germany recently delivered pas- senger ship Sinabung to the

Directorate General of Sea

Communication,

Jakarta/Indonesia. The vessel is the first in a new improved series of two passenger ships for

Indonesia featuring improved container transport facilities and a considerably increased speed — two knots faster than its predecessors. Sinabung measures 480.6 ft. (146.5 m) long and 76.7 ft. (23.4 m) wide and has a passenger capacity of 1,906. The second vessel in the new series will be delivered in fall 1998.

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Sinabung Main Particulars

Length, o.a 480.6 ft. (146.5 m)

Length, b.p 426.5 ft. (130 m)

Breadth, molded 23.4 ft. (76.7 m)

Draft 19.3 ft. (5.9 m)

Gross tonnage 14,800

DWT 3,175 industry's top experts on bulk car- rier safety together to discuss the issue and shed some light on the technicalities of the new regula- tions implemented by IACS and

IMO. The course will concentrate on structural requirements, opera- tional measures and the new

SOLAS regulations.

Operational Measures — the

Code of Practice for the Safe

Loading and Unloading of Bulk

Carriers will center on lectures by

Hans-Jorgen Reinkjop of LKAB on the Code's impact on terminal efficiency, Capt. Jack Isbester of

Eagle Lyon Pope Assoc. and author of Bulk Carrier Practice on the

Benefits of the Code from a

Master's Point of View, and Ian

Williams of the Australian

Maritime Safety Authority.

The SOLAS sector of the pro- gram will feature Henrik

Monberg Carlsen of Marine

Alignment, Arve Myklebust of

Det Norske Veritas and Ole

Borring Sorensen of Hempel

Marine Paints.

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