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Trctnsway Orders Second $22-Million Trailership

From Jos. L. Meyer Yard

Coordinated Caribbean Trans- port, Inc. (CCT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Transway Interna- tional Corporation, has placed a $22-million order for a roll-on/ roll-off trailership with Jos. L.

Meyer shipyard in Papenburg,

West Germany.

Delivery is scheduled for Au- gust 1981, according to John W.

Wolcott, president and chief ex- ecutive officer of Transway, who said that CCT plans to place the new ship in service between Mi- ami and Panama and Costa Rica.

CCT currently operates four spe- cialized roll-on/roll-off trailerships with 13 sailings per month from its Miami headquarters to Cen- tral America, Panama, and Ecu- ador.

The new 9,000-dwt ship will be identical to a sister ship, the M.V.

Ambassador, which was built for

CCT by the Meyer shipyard, and which began service between Mi- ami and Ecuador on November 1,

Mr. Wolcott said. The new ship has a cargo capacity of 165 high- way trailers and 125 automobiles or other vehicles carried on four decks. It is 554 feet long and 71 feet wide, with a draft of 21 feet, and is designed to operate at a speed of 17 knots.

Transway International is a di- versified transportation and dis- tribution company with extensive domestic and overseas operations, including marine transportation, freight forwarding, truck trailer manufacturing, and the transpor- tation, distribution, and market- ing of liquefied petroleum gas.

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It appears that however big you are, and however much oil you have, you still have to worry about how much oil you are burn- ing in your boilers. Some major oil companies, although they deal in larger quantities of this prec- ious resource than most compa- nies, also are making the most stringent effort to conserve en- ergy.

Telegan Limited of Croydon,

England, reports that recently they sold over 25 mV02 combus- tion gas and millivolt testers to major oil company tanker oper- ators. They will use these units to check on the efficiency of boiler plants in their oceangoing fleets.

The mVOo, introduced recently by Telegan, is one in a range of hand-portable monitoring instru- ments developed as a direct con- sequence of the company's wide experience in the electronic con- trol and monitoring of combus- tion levels.

The instrument is said to offer

November 15, 1980 an extremely rapid and simple way of detecting the stack tem- perature and the level of oxygen in the flue gases from boilers, and therefore provides an accurate and reliable measurement of com- bustion efficiency. At the same time it can be used to calibrate associated instrumentation and signal generators; for example, diesel engines exhaust thermo- couples, and pressure and tem- perature transmitters.

The complete test kit is simple and convenient to use, weighing only 1.7 Kg, while the instrument itself, which weighs only 0.7 Kg, can be comfortably held in one hand.

The mVOo is one of three Tele- gan systems that use the same sensing cell. The other two, de- signed to meet current IMCO regulations, are the MO- Portable

Unit for testing the quality of inert gas or human safety levels in hazardous areas, and the TLAP fixed system for indicating and recording the 02 level of inert gas. This means an owner can use one family of equipment with all the economy of spare gear that that implies to meet safety and energy conservation requirements.

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