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MacGregor-Navire Wins

Contracts For RO/RO

Ramps In U.K. And India

MacGregor-Navire (MGN) has won the contract to supply the bur- geoning port of Plymouth with an additional link span. To be installed at the Millbay Docks early in 1986, this second RO/RO berthing facility will satisfy not only current growing demand on the port from both tour- ist and commercial traffic, but will also enable Plymouth to bid for handling of the extra trade gener- ated by the advent of Spain into the

EEC.

The link span, which is designed to receive the stern or bow ramps of freight or passenger ferries drawing 26 feet and up to 590 feet long, will be sited at the port's West Wharf,

Outer Basin, parallel with the exist- ing link span.

MGN also has secured an order to supply a link span of the floating, portable type to the Bombay Port

Trust, the first facility of its kind in

India. Due for delivery by mid-1986, the RO/RO facility will fill a long- felt need. Its installation had been

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Line Shipping Company, though its presence is expected to stimulate use by others.

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BFGoodrich Awarded $3.3-Million Contract

For Sub Sonar Equipment

BFGoodrich Company, Akron,

Ohio, was awarded a $3,350,950 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for rub- ber sonar domes and related materi- al for submarine sonars.

The work, which will be per- formed in both Long Beach, Calif. (90 percent) and Akron (10 per- cent), is expected to be completed in

October 1987.

Approximately $1,335,000 of the contract funds would have expired at the end of the current fiscal year.

The contracting activity is the Nav- al Sea Systems Command (NAV-

SEA), Washington, D.C. (N00024- 85-C-6542).

Vikubo Offers Free

Brochure On Foam-Filled

Floating Fenders

Vikubo B.V., Nijverheidsweg,

Holland, is offering a free four-page brochure on their foam-filled float- ing fenders, Vikubo Shipcushions®.

Vikubo ship cushions are built from a combination of polyethylene foam of 49 kg/m3 (3.06 lbs/ft3) core, covered with a polyurethane elas- tomer coating. Running the length of the axis is a heavy polyurethane elastomer pipe for passing the "hanging up" chain through or a protected tensed chain between two end caps or a net of chains and tires around the fender.

Several photos, as well as charts, graphs and diagrams are included in the brochure to supplement the text, and further explain the struc- ture and durability of the Vikubo

Shipcushion.

According to the brochure, the

Vikubo Shipcushion not only pro- vides greater stand-off distance than conventional fenders at the same energy absorption level, but also is unsinkable and cannot ex- plode under pressure or excessive compression, and even when the fender is overcompressed, there will always be energy absorption materi- al between the two objects. In addi- tion, the publication states that the fender does not require inflation and is not impaired by seawater, sunlight or oil.

For a free copy of the brochure on

Vikubo foam-filled floating fen- ders,

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