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SSE Secures $38 Million

Contract To Build Two

Container Vessels

Singapore Shipbuilding & Engi- neering Ltd. (SSE), the marine arm of Singapore Technologies, has se- cured a contract worth $38 million (approximately S$67 million) for the construction of two container ves- sels for American-based shipowner

Tropical Shipping & Construction

Co. Ltd.

The vessels will be completely designed in-house by SSE's team of naval architects and engineers. To be classed by Bureau Veritas, the vessel will also meet the new IMO 1992 Rules on damaged stability for

RO/RO vessels.

The first vessel is scheduled for delivery in February 1993, followed by the second in mid-1993.

Tropical Shipping currently owns 12 vessels and operates a container liner service to 17 destinations in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Cen- tral America from its base in Port of

Palm Beach, Fla.

Currently under construction in the yard are the second and third vessels of an order for three 445-

TEU Feeder Container Vessels for

Neptune Orient Lines of Singapore secured last year.

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Singapore Shipbuilding,

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Volvo Penta Signs

Patent Agreement With

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Aquamaster CRP

An agreement has been signed between AB Volvo-Penta and

Aquamaster-Rauma Ltd., giving

Aquamaster the worldwide right and license to manufacture and market products based on Volvo Penta's patents and know-how regarding counter rotating propellers. Volvo

Penta is entitled to utilize

Aquamaster-Rauma's know-how in its product development and manu- facturing.

The patent and know-how ex- change agreement now signed en- titles the Finnish company

Aquamaster-Rauma Ltd. to use the

Volvo Penta know-how and patents for larger counter-rotating propel- lers.

For Volvo Penta the agreement opens up new opportunities to offer its larger marine diesel engines, such as the 16 liter TAMD162, as an al- ternative combined with a larger counter-rotating unit like the

Aquamaster CRP for workboats.

Aquamaster-Rauma Ltd. is one of the leading manufacturers of ship equipment, such as steerable pro- pulsion units, winches, vessel boil- ers and shipboard waste treatment systems. Sales and marketing net- work covers over 30 shipbuilding countries.

The Aquamaster CRP propulsion concept offers to the owner of the vessel the following remarkable ben- efits compared to a conventional system: increased cargo/passenger capacity of 2-10 percent; fuel saving of 5-10 percent; lower machinery investment costs of 10-20 percent; less vibration; and lower noise level.

The unique Volvo Penta Duoprop consists of a gear which drives the two counter-rotating propellers— where the shaft of the rear propeller rotates inside that of the front pro- peller.

The reported advantages of the

DP drive in combination with pow- erful V6 and V8 gasoline engines or high-speed diesels, compared with corresponding engines and single propeller drives, are as follows: Ac- celeration is up to 30 percent faster.

Top speeds are up to two knots higher. At the same time, fuel con- sumption is 10-12 percent lower at cruising speed.

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