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Fairbanks Morse Receives $12.1 -Million Diesel Engine

Order For Navy's LSD-44

W.T. Hailey, vice president- sales, for Colt Industries, Fair- banks Morse Engine Division in

Beloit, Wise., has announced that a $12.1-million order has been re- ceived for diesel engines for the

U.S. Navy's LSD class landing ship dock program.

The new order covers a shipset of four propulsion engines and four engine-generators for ship's power. The propulsion engines are

Colt-Pielstick 16-cylinder diesel engines rated at 8,500 bhp each, and the engine-generators are

Fairbanks Morse opposed piston engines rated at 1,837 bhp each.

This order for LSD-44 is the fourth order from Lockheed Ship- building & Construction Company of Seattle, Wash., and brings the total orders received under this program to $58.2 million. Ship- ment for the eight engines is scheduled for 1984 and 1985.

New Ultra Shallow-Draft

Design Form Mitsubishi

Described in Literature

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,

Ltd. is offering free literature de- scribing its new design for ultra shallow-draft vessels (USDVs). The design permits a vessel to trans- port 2V'2 to 3 times more cargo than conventional vessels on shal- low draft routes or in service be- tween shallow-draft ports.

Mitsubishi can provide USDVs in dimensions up to a maximum

B/d ratio of 6.5 and a minimum

L/B ratio of 3.5. The design is ap- plicable to a wide range of vessels such as tankers, bulk carriers, chemical carriers, RO/RO's, con- tainer-ships, and liquified gas carriers.

For complete information,

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Separator Contract

Awarded Alfa-Laval

Alfa-Laval of Fort Lee, N.J., one of the world leaders in liquid sep- aration, thermal, and continuous process technology recently an- nounced it has been chosen by

U.S. Lines, Inc. to supply all of the fuel and lube purifiers plus other equipment for 12 jumbo con- tainerships.

The U.S. Lines' contract for the 12 vessels is valued at $570-mil- lion and is, according to industry sources, the biggest maritime or- der in recent history.

Alfa-Laval will be supplying 84 centrifugal separators for fuel and

August 1, 1983 lube purification plus fresh water generators and plate heat exchan- gers for central cooling systems.

Robert E. Wiltz, senior vice president and general manager in charge of the Alfa-Laval Industry

Group, said the equipment order will exceed $4-million and is sub- ject to final approval by the gov- ernment of South Korea, where the ships will be built. "The combination of state-of-the- art Alfa-Laval equipment and new diesel engines will provide signifi- cant fuel economies in the opera- tion of these huge vessels," ex- plained Mikael Ugander, vice president and general manager of the Alfa-Laval Separation Engi- neering Group. "Our technology will permit the burning of the low- est grade bunker fuel."

Mr. Ugander said the contain- erships will be "longer than three football fields"—950 feet long by 106 feet wide.

Alfa-Laval, Inc. is part of the in- ternational Alfa-Laval Group headquartered in Sweden. The U.S. company, headquartered in Fort

Lee, N.J., was established in 1883 to supply centrifugal equipment to dairy farms for continuous cream separation. Today, that original technology continues to find broader application, including food and dairy processing, power gen- eration, chemical processing, and pollution control.

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