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New Panama Tugs

Ordered

A series of seven new Z-Tech tugs will soon be plying the waters of the Panama

Canal, as the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) recently placed an order for the

Robert Allan Ltd.-designed vessels, to be built at Hin Lee (Zhu Hai) Shipyard

Co. Ltd. at Doumen, Zhuhai, in

Guangdong province, China, which is owned by Cheoy Lee Shipyards. They are scheduled for delivery during the second half of 2006 and in 2007.

Wärtsilä won the contract for the sup- ply of propulsion plants for the seven 60-ton bollard pull tugs. The Z-Tech

Concept was developed initially for

PSA Marine (Pte) Ltd. of Singapore by naval architects Robert Allan Ltd.

Among the unique features of the Z-

Tech tugs are equal bollard pull and speed forward and aft, a safe, flat work- ing deck and a sea-going stern for tow- ing in tractor mode.

The Z-Tech tugs are a modified azimuthing stern drive type, measuring 89.8 ft. (27.4 m) in overall length by 37.7 ft. (11.5 m) in breadth, with a nom- inal bollard pull of 60 tons and a free- running speed of 12.8 knots.

They will be employed escorting and assisting ships in the Panama Canal.

Each tug will feature a Wärtsilä 3,600 kW propulsion plant comprising twin resiliently-mounted 9-cylinder in-line

Wärtsilä 20 engines each driving a Lips can-mounted steerable thruster having a fixed-pitch propeller in a high efficiency

HR-nozzle.

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LPD 17 Completes

Acceptance Trials

Acceptance Trials of the future USS

San Antonio, lead ship of the LPD 17 class, were conducted Jun 27-30, and witnessed by the Board of Inspection and Survey. "The completion of

Acceptance Trials is a major step towards bringing LPD 17 into the fleet, and we look forward to ship delivery later this month," said Rear Adm.

Charles Hamilton, the program execu- tive officer for Ships. "LPD 17 and her sister ships will add tremendous capabil- ities to the fleet for our Sailors and

Marines. This class will be a vital com- ponent of our Nation's ability to provide sea-based power anywhere on the globe in support of the Global War on Terror."

RoRo Passenger

Ferry Named

A new RoRo Passenger ferry built for

TESO (Texels Eigen Stoomboot

Onderneming N.V. = Texel's Own

Steamboat Company) by Damen

Shipyards was recently named and delivered. TESO, founded in 1907, runs 12 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News

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Length, o.a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .427.8 ft. (130.4 m)

Length, b.p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .417.4 ft. (127.24 m)

Beam, molded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74.5 ft. (22.7 m)

Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23.6 ft. (7.18 m)

No. Decks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Draft, design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13.3 ft. (4.05 m)

Draft, max. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14.4 ft. (4.4 m)

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Speed at design draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15.2 knots

Speed at max. draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14.8 knots

Bollard pull transverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80 ton

Bollard pull longitudinally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 ton

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