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IMODCO, Technigaz

Sign Joint Venture

A definitive agreement for a joint venture 'between IMODCO, Inc.,

West Los Angeles, Calif., and

Technigaz, S.A., a company of the

Gazocean Group, Paris, France, to develop, manufacture and sell or lease equipment for the handling of cryogenic liquids through offshore

Single Point Mooring Terminal

Systems, was formerly signed in

Los Angeles. The two companies had previously announced a letter of intent for this purpose.

In placing their signatures to the agreement, president Robert C.

Houser of IMODCO and adminis- trateur Jean Alleume of Technigaz, in the United States from Paris for the occasion, said particular atten- tion will be given to the develop- ment of a system which would be unaffected by extremely low gas temperatures and could respond to severe marine environmental con- ditions while loading and unload- ing.

They noted there is presently planned or in existence more than $1 billion in orders for liquid natu- ral gas tankers, many of which are to be of supertanker size. These tankers will be used for the trans- port of LNG to the energy hungry markets in the United States, Eu- rope and Japan from distant gas fields in such countries as Iran, Al- geria and Indonesia.

Technigaz has already made sig- nificant advances in technology for the transportation of cryogenic liquids aboard ship with the devel- opment of various tank designs, now widely used, and will work closely with IMODCO, one of the world's leading designers and man- ufacturers of offshore terminal systems.

Messrs. Houser and Alleume stated the equipment will be de- signed to accommodate any type of liquid gas. This equipment will then be offered for direct sale or lease wherein operation and main- tenance can be included.

Nickum & Spaulding

Contracts To Design

Three B.C. Ferries

Canadian Transport Minister

Bob Strachan has announced that three new ferries, designed by a

Seattle firm and costing $35 mil- lion, will be operating in the British

Columbia ferries fleet by the sum- mer of 1975.

Nickum & Spaulding Associates,

Inc. of Seattle, Wash., has been awarded the $577,500 design con- tract and has agreed to have the designs completed and ready for construction tenders in two months.

Mr. Strachan told a news confer- ence that the contract has been awarded for the design of two 376- car ferries, and a trailer ferry cap- able of handling 64 commercial vehicles or 154 cars.

The two car ferries, expected to cost $13 million each, will be used on the Lower Mainland run, and the $9-million trailer ferry will pro- vide 24-hour service on the Swartz

Bay-Tsawwassen run.

Edo Western Offers

Brochure On Navtrak

Docking System

The large kinetic energy levels encountered in new supervessels require that accurate and detailed velocity information be provided for both fore-aft and port-starboard at the bow and stern.

Edo Western Corporation's Nav- trak Docking System is a precise sonar system which provides exact "over-theJbottom" information for docking of supervessels, plus speed log information while the vessel is under way. Range capability allows docking in water depths to 100 feet and speed log operation in any wa- ter depths. The system is self- contained and provides a readout of port-starboard velocity informa- tion from both the bow and stern, plus fore-aft velocity and accumu- lated distance traveled.

Edo Western pioneered doppler sonar navigation systems, and this latest version of the Model 482

Docking System is by far the most sophisticated system ever offered.

A comprehensive full-color bro- chure will be sent upon request.

Contact Edo Western Corporation, 2645 South 2nd West, Salt Lake

City, Utah 84115.

Jacuzzklet

MEANS

HORSEPOWER EFFICIENCY

AT All SPEEDS

JacuzziJet commercial propulsion units utilize an advanced mixed-flow design which was originally developed for the U. S.

Navy. This proved system features increased efficiencies throughout all speed ranges in addition to providing superior maneuverability.

JacuzziJet can be coupled to a number of diesel, gasoline or gas turbine engines for single and multiple installations insuring maximum flexibility in meeting performance requirements.

The impeller, the only internal rotating assembly, is carefully matched to each engine and custom trimmed to meet the exact performance requirements of the boat owner.

Since the JacuzziJet is a direct drive system, it provides an ideal "loading" condition on propulsion engines. If any damage should occur to the jet drive, the engine is "unloaded" rather than "overloaded" as in conventional systems. This affords the engine longer life.

Jacuzzi engineering and marine jet efficiency mean maximum use of horsepower for a longer period of time.

JACUZZI BROS. INC. / Marine Products Department / 11511 New Benton Highway / Little Rock, Arkansas 72203 38 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News