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U.K. Built Ferries (continued) and aft doors; two sets of ramps/ doors, lower level, giving access to each end of the main deck; two sets of ramps, upper level, giving access to each end of the weather deck; and two sets of electrohydraulic pump units, one to serve the forward and one to serve the aft access equip- ment.

Building of the 24 vessels will be divided between the two Sunder- land-based NESL yards of Pallion and Southwick (the former Sunder- land and Austin & Pickersgill yards, respectively). Four of the ferries were ordered by one Danish owner, with the remaining 20 being con- tracted by other shipowners and in- vestors.

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The South Korean yard Hyundai was awarded the contract to length- en four Atlantic Container Line (ACL) roll-on/roll-off container- ships employed on the North Atlan- tic, it was recently confirmed by

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The U.K. shipyard Scott Lithgow is expected to have the contract to stretch a fifth ship, the Atlantic

Conveyor, placed with them. Scott

Lithgow is part of the Trafalgar

House group that owns Cunard,

ACL's British partner.

The vessels are to be lengthened by about 137 feet to a total length of about 958 feet, resulting in an in- crease in capacity from 1,432 twen- ty-foot equivalent units to 1,768

TEUs. The number of roll-on/roll- off units carried will be raised from 400 to 562, while car-carrying will group by 150 units a ship.

ACL, a consortium of six major

European shipping companies, said the increased capacity of these five ships would provide it with a num- ber of options regarding future em- ployment of the whole fleet. The cost of lengthening is believed to be around $5 million per vessel.

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Mass., has announced the publica- tion of a new updated edition of

Jane's High-Speed Marine Craft and Air Cushion Vehicles (formerly

Jane's Surface Skimmers).

This nineteenth edition, edited by

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Riley-Beaird, Inc., one of the leaders in the field of seawater dis- tillation and a major supplier of heat recovery evaporators with ca- pacities of up to 30,000 gpd, recently introduced the Maxim® HJ and

TCF Series heat recovery evapora- tors.

These standard, field-proven de- signs now offer a wider range of freshwater capacities—greater ca- pacity per size with two new sizes to choose from—to enhance perfor- mance and minimize maintenance.

Maxim evaporators are conven- tional units of a tubular design, with 90-10 copper/nickel materials and flat gaskets. These standard models will double and triple the capacity per developed horsepower, when they are arranged in series as multi- ple effects.

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