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ELECTRONICS

UPDATE

Furuno Introduces New

High Resolution Color Radar

The new FR-2010 high resolution color radar from Furuno, designed primarily for commercial deepsea shipping, offers price and perfor- mance features that make it equally at home on commercial workboats, fishboats and the most prestigious yachts.

The bright 20-inch diagonal ras- ter scan CRT, equivalent to older 12-inch round analog radars, shows targets in high contrast yellow- orange against a dark background that is an operator-selectable blue for daytime operation or black for use at night. Legends, markers and other on-screen data are shown in other colors.

Target detection on the FR-2010 is enhanced through the use of echo stretch and averaging plus highly sophisticated computer techniques.

Electronic aids such as calculation of CPA, TCPA, target course, echo plotting, speed/range/bearing to se- lected target and easily defined guard zone give operators the ability to assess dangerous situations quickly and accurately. Additional performance features include built- in dual VRM's, dual EBL's, audible i " 1! my k • ( f V. - _ . -rm,. • • • * • s

FR-2010 color radar from Furuno. and visual target alarm, and Furu- no's multi-level quantization (MLQ) of incoming radar returns, using 8 level to produce the most accurate representation of targets possible.

The FR-2010 fully meets exacting

IMO rules for mandatory fitting on vessels less than 10,000 grt. It uses a combination of sensibly arranged, backlit tactile keypads, rotary knobs and a joystick to make opera- tion easy and intuitive.

For more information and free lit- erature from Furuno,

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McDermott Joint Venture

Awarded Contract Worth

More Than $100 Million

Morecambe Bay Contractors, a joint venture between Press Off- shore and McDermott Internation- al, Inc., has been awarded a contract valued at more than $100 million for two drilling platforms for the More- cambe Bay gas field by Hydrocar- bons Great Britain Limited.

The project, which will begin im- mediately, includes the fabrication, installation, hookup and commis- sioning of the two platforms. It is scheduled for completion in May 1989.

Each platform will comprise a 12- pile jacket weighing approximately 2,000 metric tons, and an integrated deck weighing approximately 3,600 metric tons. The platforms will be installed in approximately 100 feet of water in the Irish Sea, about 20 miles west of Blackpool, England.

The joint venture brings together two of Britain's leading offshore contractors. Press Offshore, part of khe AMEC group, will build the decks at its Wallsend yards on Ty- neside, England, and McDermott will fabricate the jackets and piles at its Ardersier base in Scotland. At its peak, the project will employ approximately 650 people in the

Wallsend and Ardersier areas.

McDermott's semisubmersible derrick barge DB 102 will install the platforms, and Press will carry out subsequent hookup and commis- sioning from a support base at Hey- sham, England.

New Container Liner Bags

Cut Liquid Carriage Costs —Brochure Offered

The Rukka 2-in-l Softank Sys- tem has been developed jointly by

Johnson Line AB, (Stockholm) and the Finnish manufacturer Rukka

Oy. It is designed for transportation of a wide range of non-hazardous liquids, including juices and concen- trates, wines and harmless chemi- cals, utilizing standard 20-foot con- tainers.

The Softank System consists of a reuseable outer bag of durable PVC- coated fabric, fittings for inflation and filling, including a pressure re- lief valve, and a disposable, sterile inner liner. Both the outer bag and inner liner materials meet the re- quirements of the F.D.A. and the

B.G.A. for the transport of food products. The Softank is available in either 12,000- or 16,000-liter ca- pacities, and may also be used for products requiring refrigeration as well as for limited storage.

By eliminating many of the oper- ations required when transporting in drums, tank trucks, tank vessels or tank containers, the Softank Sys- tem reduces handling costs and minimizes contamination risks.

In use, the outer bag is unrolled on the floor of a 20-foot container at the supplier's facility, a new liner is inserted and the unit is inflated with air. If required, sterilized air or inert gas may be used. The product is then pumped into the unit, the valves are closed, the container doors sealed, and the unit is ready

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