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Hitachi Zosen Delivers Products

Carrier To Panamanian Owner

The 17,780-dwt products carrier Per- tamina 1023 (shown above), constructed at the Maizuru Works of Hitachi Zosen, was delivered recently to Scorpa Pranedya Ship- ping, Inc., Panama. She is the fifth products carrier of the same type to be delivered by

Hitachi for the transportation of refined pe-

STEAM

TURBINES

Allis Chalmers

High Pressure Steam

PAIR FOR SALE

CONDITION = UNUSED 16000 SHP per Pair

Allis Chalmers Drawing #PS613-1252 3900 Shaft HP at 5262 RPM. PSI 425

Formerly used on Esso Trenton, Esso

New Orleans Class Tankers. Also

CVE 105 USN ACFT Carriers.

P.J. PLISHNER MARINE 2 Lake Avenue Ext., Danbury, CT 06810

Telephone: (203) 792-6666 troleum products such as jet fuel, kerosene, diesel oil, and aviation gasoline between In- donesian ports and harbors.

The ship is constructed to satisfy all oil tanker requirements of the International

Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973, and the Convention's Pro- tocol of 1978 that will come into effect soon.

All interior walls and fittings of cargo tanks are coated with epoxy resin paint, a coating of the highest quality, to prevent rust and the paint itself from chipping off into the products during transportation.

The Pertamina 1023 has an overall length of 518.4 feet, beam of 84.6 feet, depth of 35.4 feet, and full-load design draft of 23 feet. Her power plant is a single Hitachi

B&W, 7-cylinder type L45GFC diesel with a maximum continuous output of 6,160 bhp at 170 rpm. Maximum trial speed was 13.95 knots. The vessel is classed by Lloyd's Reg- ister of Shipping.

Matson Orders Econics

Fuel Optimizers—Reports 3.5% Savings In Fuel

Matson Navigation Company has ordered 11 Econics fuel optimization systems to equip all of the boilers on the major ships of the fleet. This order followed a six-month evaluation of a system that was installed on one of the two 110,000 pound hour B&W boilers of Matson's Manulani, a 27,165-dwt, 23-knot containership.

According to James J. Sweeney, manager of shipboard energy conservation for Matson

Navigation, the Econics system reduced fuel consumption by 3.5 percent compared with previous boiler operation. These savings are achieved through advanced technology meas- urement and control of the boiler's combus-

This announcement appears as a matter of record only. $14,878,000

Trailer Marine Transport

Corporation a subsidiary of

Crowley Maritime Corporation

United States Government Guaranteed

Ship Financing Bonds

Wt' have arranged this financing.

WARBURG PARIBAS BECKER

A G. Becker

SALOMON BROTHERS

April 1981

Write 367 on Reader Service Card tion of residual fuel oil, maximizing the usable energy recovery from the oil.

Installation of the Econics systems is part of Matson's continuing program to achieve fuel savings through the application of newly developed technology. This program has in- cluded installation of satellite navigation systems and use of newly developed anti- fouling coatings in addition to the combus- tion systems. This program is expected to save more than 200,000 barrels of oil per year for Matson. For more information on the Econics system,

Write 28 on Reader Service Card

TOWBOAT TO CHINA — The last of four

Friendship-Class river towboats ordered by the Chang Jiang Shipping Administration of the People's Republic of China from Dravo

Corporation was launched into the Ohio

River from Dravo's Neville Island (Pitts- burgh) shipyard recently. When fully out- fitted later this year, all four vessels will be towed down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans where they will be loaded on an oceangoing vessel and shipped via the

Panama Canal to China.

Sun Ship Jumboizing 'Lurline'

Using Unique "Reverse Launch"

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Sun Ship, Inc. of Chester, Pa., began a new era of ship repair and conversion business with a recent "reverse launch," as a 700- foot ship was inched carefully out of the water onto dry land. The procedure took about six hours as hydraulic devices moved

Matson's RO/ RO ship Lurline (shown above) onto a slab at the rate of 3 feet per minute.

Designed and built as a trailership by Sun

Ship in 1973, the Lurline is being length- ened 126]2 feet by insertion of a new mid- body, and the forward roll-on/roll-off area is being converted to container holds, which will more than double the vessel's present cargo-carrying capacity. Ordinarily, the ship would be kept in the water or drydock, but such major structural work on land is much more efficient and less costly because of easy access and less need for complicated equipment.

Work on the conversion of the 13,860- deadweight-ton Lurline began in November 1980 and will be completed by December 1981. The ship is now being separated and the bow moved forward 127 feet so the mid- body can be erected between the sections.

Maritime Reporter/Engineering News