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tanks are designed to hold an over- pressure of 11 bar, so that high load- ing and unloading performance are possible. An inert gas plant is pro- vided to allow fast change of car- goes. This plant is said to be one of the first inert gas plants on a gas tanker that is able to produce nitro- gen—a concept of the future.

These two Hartmann LPG tank- ers meet the highest national and international safety requirements.

They will be deployed throughout the world under long-term charter contracts.

Valmet's Helsinki Shipyard in

Finland recently delivered the sec- ond of a pair of 8,638-dwt multi- purpose, dock type barge feeder ves- sels built for the Soviet Union's

Danube Shipping Company. The sponsor of the ship, named the

Pavel Antokolskiy, was Mrs. Irene

Kankaanpaa, wife of Valmet Cor- poration president Matti Kan- kaanpaa.

The new vessel, like her sister ship Boris Polevoy that was deliv- ered earlier this year, will be oper- ated by the Interlighter Shipping

Company, which has been maintain- ing a very successful liner service carrying the 1,000-ton Danube sea- barges from the Black Sea down to

India, the Bay of Bengal, Burma,

Singapore, and Vietnam.

The two new feeder ships will maintain liner service on the Black

Sea, Mediterranean, and Red Sea collecting and distributing barges coming down the rivers. These ves- sels are each able to carry six Dan- ube barges or 12 LASH barges in their wide cargo holds with a deck area of about 3,000 square meters.

The watertight stern door also serves as a ramp for RO/RO. When carrying containers stacked in three layers instead of barges, the capac- ity is 513 TEUs.

The dock type vessels can load directly from the pier or at sea.

Barges are floated in or out of the cargo hold by ballasting the vessel using two big pumps, each with a capacity of 1,500 cubic meters per hour. This pumping capacity allows the ships to be ballasted and de- ballasted in only 12 hours.

Main propulsion is provided by two Wartsila-Vasa 9R32 medium- speed diesel engines with a total output of 7,560 bhp at 750 rpm.

Each engine is connected via a flexi- ble coupling and single-stage reduc- tion gear to a controllable-pitch pro- peller. A bow thruster is also in- stalled. Trial speed was 13.9 knots.

The Pavel Antokolskiy has an overall length of about 521 feet, molded beam of 101.7 feet, maxi- mum operating draft of 14.4 feet, and submerged draft of 30.5 feet.

Volume of the cargo hold is about 31,000 cubic meters. She will oper- ate with a crew of 32 persons, (continued on page 36)

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Exhaust gas boiler GeKa

Air conditioning Novenco

SatCom & Fax Debeg

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PAVEL ANTOKOLSKIY

Major Suppliers

Main engines (2) .... Wartsila/Vasa

Reduction gears (2) Valmet

Propellers (2) KaMeWa

Steering gear C.J. Wennberg

Machinery controls .... Stromberg

Alarms & printers .... Moland Automation

Oil-fired boiler .... Bronswerk Ketel

Exh. gas boilers (2) . Bronswerk Ketel

Autopilot Kockums

Air conditioning .... Valmet Pansio

C02 & smoke detectors . Hein-Larssen

Stern ramp .... MacGregor-Navire

Anchor/mooring and mooring winches, chain stoppers, deck machinery Salzgitter Kocks

Lifeboats Centromor

Electronics & galley equipment Owner

FO & LO separators Alfa-Laval

December 1, 1984

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