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RO/RO—80 (continued from page 40) —looking at many of the main traffic areas where new thinking and innovative use of the ro-ro mode have been applied. These range from the home waters of the venue, the Mediterranean, to as far afield as the Caribbean and other new ro-ro routes to devel- oping countries.

Although ro-ro ship design has progressed considerably from the first North Sea applications, there are some major design problems still to be solved, especially in the light of ever increasing ship costs.

These and some new systems will be debated at the meetings.

From the port viewpoint the progress in ro-ro berth design has been equally dramatic, but often costly where ports have specified rashly in both equipment and sys- tems which have been incompat- ible with existing infra-structure and future planned developments.

Previous Ro-Ro Conferences have brought the state-of-the-art for- ward a step and Ro-Ro '80 will be no exception.

In addition to the Conference and Exhibition, there also will be technical tours to ro-ro facilities and ships.

Kawasaki Receives Order

For $20.3-Million

Floating Drydock

Kawasaki Heavy Industries,

Ltd., has received an order from the Sembawang Shipyard of Sing- apore for a $20.3-million floating drydock.

The contract, which includes in- stallation expense, calls for con- struction of the dock to begin in

July, with completion scheduled for March next year. The drydock is to be towed to Singapore and delivered by May 1981.

An announcement by Kawasaki said the dock will be 290 meters long, 63 meters wide and 20 me- ters high (about 951 feet by 207 feet by 66 feet). The dock is to be capable of handling ships of up to 150,000 deadweight tons.

Theron C. Foote Appointed

VP At Waterman Steamship

James Devine, vice president- sales and marketing for Water- man Steamship Corp., New York,

N.Y., has recently announced the appointment of Theron C. Foote as vice president-pricing.

Mr. Foote was previously with

Atlantic Container Line.

RO-RO 80

Exhibitor List*

Werft Nobiskrug West Germany

International Lashing

Systems UK

Lancer Boss

Spanset

Volvo Penta Sweden

Schichau Unterweser West Germany

Ottawa Truck Division UK

DAF Special Products Netherlands

Velle System West Germany

Mafi Transport Systeme . West Germany

Intering GmbH West Germany

MacGregor International

Organisation UK

Peck & Hale (GB) Ltd U

North Western Trailer Co. UK

Svenska Flaktfabriken Sweden

Valmet Oy Finland

Hyster Europe UK

Rolling Transport Systems U

Lansing Henley UK

Wartsila Turku Shipyard Finland

Conver Ingenieurtechnik West Germany

Container Safe Sweden

Mattsson Group Swede

Port Autonome de Marseilles . France

Plan Transport Equipment Switzerland

Seasafe Norway

F.L. Douglas Equipment UK

Kalmar LMV Sweden

Navire Cargo Gear Int. Swede

Inter Equipos Navales Spain

Gotaverken Arendal Swede

Johansson Group Sweden

Oskarhamns Shipyard

Port of Wallhamn

Roto Line

Infis AB Sweden

Thos. Storey (Engineers) UK

A Jaernkonstruktioner Sweden

Cargospeed Equipment UK

Orsa Katting Sweden

Mariterm Swede

Marine Development (Glasgow) Ltd. UK

Ron Moore U

Kvaerner Brug Norway

Suomen Autoteollisuus Finland

Adriatica di Navigazione

SpA Venice UK

Clark Equipment Ind. West Germany

Truck Division

Kockums Sweden

Consorzio Autonome del

Porto Napoli Italy

OT Africa Line UK *As available at press time.

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