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The HM527 under construction at Vosper Hover- marine, Southampton, England—one of four destined for ferry service in Hong Kong.

The ferries will operate at 36 knots on the 45-mile route between Hong Kong and

Macau.

The value of the contract to Vosper Hover- marine is about $22 million and the four vessels will be delivered separately in August and December 1982, and in April and July 1983.

The company also has received an order from the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry

Co. for 10 of its HM218 SES craft for ferry service between Hong Kong and Canton on the Chinese mainland. There are currently 20 hovercraft from Vosper operating 10 hours per day, 350 days per year in Hong

Kong ferry service.

In addition to its recent completion of a prototype fireboat for the Tacoma Fire De- partment, Vosper Hovermarine has sold four similar fireboats to the Port of Rotter- dam Authority, two ferries to the Jordan

Valley Authority, three crewboats to Shell

Oil-Venezuela, one crewboat to Aramco in the Arabian Gulf, and four crewboats to a

Cayman Island company for use in the Gulf of Mexico. the problem. Swedish harbor authorities are convinced this vessel traffic control system will significantly reduce accidents due to in- correct course, groundings, or collisions.

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Hong Kong Companies Order 14 Hovercraft Ferries From Vosper

Vosper Hovermarine, Southampton, Eng- land, has recently received an order for four of its new HM527 hovercraft—200-passen- ger ferries—from a new company, Sealink

Ferries Ltd. of Hong Kong.

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Whitcomb Wells, sales manager for C.H.

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The fall meeting of the ASNE-Northern New England

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