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BOATS & BARGES

Atlantic Marine Awarded $12.6-Million Contract To Build

Three Sternwheel Dinner Vessels

The Caterpillar-powered Casino dinner vessels being built by Atlantic Marine will be berthed in Iowa and will cruise the Mississippi River for dining and gambling excursions.

Atlantic Marine, Inc. of Jackson- ville, Fla., has signed a $12.6-million contract with Steamboat Develop- ment Corporation of Davenport,

Iowa, to build three 102-foot stern- wheel casino dinner vessels. De- livery will begin in the first quarter of 1991.

Designed by John W. Gilbert &

Associates, Inc. of Boston, Mass., the vessels will each have three Cat- erpillar 3412 marine engines rated 671 bhp at 1,800 rpm for propulsion power. Two engines will drive shafts and propellers through a reverse reduction gear with clutch. The cen- terline engine will drive three hy- draulic pumps. Two pumps will power the paddlewheel hydraulic motors. The third pump will pro- vide power to the bow thruster hy- draulic motor. The vessels will also have two Caterpillar 3412 500-kw generator sets to provide shipboard electrical service.

The 1,200-passenger casino din- ner vessels will be berthed in Iowa and will cruise the Mississippi River for dining and gambling excursions.

Atlantic Marine, Inc. is located at the intersection of the St. Johns

River and the Intracoastal Water- ways. Established in 1964, Atlantic constructs all types of vessels in- cluding ferryboats, research vessels, tugs, barges and fishing vessels for the American and international market.

For free literature detailing the facilities and capabilities of Atlantic

Marine,

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ABB Marine To Supply $50-Million Power

Package To Fincantieri

ABB Marine has signed a $50- million contract with the Merchant

Shipbuilding Division of Fincantieri in Trieste, Italy, concerning the de- livery of the electrical propulsion and power systems for three 50,000- grt cruise vessels under construction for Holland America Line (HAL).

Each vessel will carry 1,250 passen- gers, and will enter upper-market services in the Caribbean between 1992 and 1994.

Responsibility for providing the various components of the $50-mil- lion propulsion package will be di- vided between two of ABB's opera- tions centers in Europe.

ABB Marine in Helsinki (ABB

Stromberg Drives), which is respon- sible for the technical coordination, will provide two main generators, 7,650 kw each; three main genera- tors of 6,150 kw each; two cyclocon- verter sets of 12 mw each with feed- ing transformers; and two main pro- pulsion motors of 12 mw each.

ABB Marine in Italy, (ABB In- dustrial the legal consortium lead- er, will be supplying four air condi- tioning compressor motors of 1,000 kw each; two motor/generator sets, each 6.6 kv/450V, 937.5 kw; three thruster motors of 1,720 kw each; one main switchboard rated at 6.6 kv; an emergency generator with 750 kw output; plus a total of five distri- bution transformers. Three of these are rated at 6.6kv/450, 2,625 kw.

The other two are rated at 6.6 kv/ 450V/220V.

Over the past decade, cyclocon- verters driving synchronous motors have shown outstanding reliability on several icebreakers. In addition, orders have been received for simi- lar propulsion systems for one Japa- nese (Crystal Harmony) and two

U.S. cruise vessels (Fantasy and Ec- stasy). The M/S Fantasy was re- cently delivered to Miami for Carni- val Cruise Lines; the Ecstasy is scheduled to be delivered next

April.

For more information about

ABB's available services,

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SeaLink Places $32-Million RO/RO Order

With Yugoslav Yard

Sweden-based company SeaLink, in continuing its recent commit- ment to newbuilding in Yugoslavia, has placed an order for two 5,800- dwt vessels from Titovo Brodogra- diliste.

The vessels, which will have a length of 407 feet, a beam of 66 feet and a draft of 20 feet, will be RO/

RO forestry products carriers for trade between the Baltic and the

UK-European continent area. The ships, which are worth about $16 million each, will be powered by 4,500-kW Wartsila Vasa engines.

Titovo Brodogradiliste's contract with SeaLink includes options on two more ships.

Maintenance And Repair

Promotions At

Atlantic Container

Officials at Atlantic Container

Line have announced the appoint- ments of Stephen White as gener- al manager, corporate maintenance and repair and European logistics; and James W. Perouty as corpo- rate manager, maintenance and re- pair. Both Mr. White and Mr. Pe- routy will be based at ACL's head- quarters in South Plainfield, New

Jersey.

In his new position, Mr. White will be responsible for European/

Scandinavian logistics and corpo- rate maintenance and repair. Prior to his promotion, he held the title of

U.S. Profit Center Manager. He has been working for ACL since 1980 in traffic and logistics in Southamp- ton, England.

Jim Perouty will be responsible for maintenance and repair cost controls, equipment standards and maintenance and repair contract negotiations for North America, Eu- rope and Scandinavia. Mr. Perou- ty brings to his new position six years of experience in the mainte- nance and repair field with ACL.

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