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$ 13.5 Million Contract

To Operate USCG Computer

Center Won By Battelle

Battelle has won a four-year, $13.5 million contract to operate and maintain the U.S. Coast Guard's new computer facility near

Martinsburg, W. Va.

The Operations Systems Center will support Coast Guard missions of search and rescue, marine safety, environmental protection, and law enforcement.

Battelle and its subcontractors will employ about 60 people at the center, which will add $2 million annually to the Martinsburg-area economy.

The largest of three main com- puter systems being operated at the center, the Marine Safety Informa- tion System, was developed by

Battelle.

The 36,000-square-foot facility was dedicated this past November.

Nichols Bros. To Build 1,600-Passenger Boat

For Hawaiian Service

Paradise Cruise, Ltd., which has offered Hawaiian cruise and excur- sion services out of Honolulu for 35 years, will initiate service with the 1,600-passenger Star of Honolulu in the spring. The 232- by 45-foot ves- sel is being built by Nichols Broth- ers Boat Builders, Inc., at its

Whidbey Island yard in Freeland,

Wash.

The vessel will be powered by two 1,125-hp Caterpillar engines. Elec- trical power will be provided by three 180-kw Caterpillar diesel genera- tors.

Nichols Brothers expects to de- liver the Star of Honolulu in the latter part of February, according to

Matt Nichols, president of the yard.

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Marine Accommodations

Supplies Joiner Packages

For Cruise Ship, Ferry

Marine Accommodations, Inc.,

Jacksonville, Fla., was recently awarded two separate contracts to supply diversified joiner packages for a cruise ship and a passenger/ auto ferry.

Marine Accommodations, which offers pre-insulated joiner bulk- heads, joiner ceilings, floating floors, and doors which meet SOLAS and

Coast Guard requirements, supplied the joiner package for cruise ship S/

V Fantome, recently delivered by the Island of Trinidad and Tobago shipyard, and has also been con- tracted to supply ship interior sys- tems for the State of Maine ferry under construction at Washburn &

January, 1992

Doughty Shipyard, East Boothbay,

Maine.

Marine Accommodations offers an extensive line of ship interior prod- ucts for all types of passenger ves- sels, including ferries, dinner/excur- sion boats, and gambling riverboats.

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ZF Consolidation

Improves Responsiveness

To Markets, Customers

ZF AG has consolidated three of its North American operations into a separate division of the parent company, ZF Corporation. Werner

Arnold, president of the new corpo- ration, said the consolidation will allow ZF to better serve its North

American customers. The changes became effective January 1, 1992.

ZF Corp. will be comprised of three

ZF AG subsidiary companies—ZF of

North America (ZF NA), ZF Indus- tries, and ZF transmissions. ZF NA, which is headquartered in

Lincolnshire, was created in 1979 as

ZF AG's North American sales and service organization. ZF Industries, headquartered in McLean, Va., was founded in 1986 to service the mili- tary market. ZF Transmissions, lo- cated in Gainesville, Ga., was orga- nized in 1986 to manufacture light- duty truck transmissions.

Mr. Arnold said ZF Corp. will be organized along market lines, rather than product lines.

Headquartered in Friedrichshafen,

Germany, ZF AG is a leading manu- facturer of gears, transmissions, pumps, axles and other driveline com- ponents.

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Norfolk Shipbuilding Wins $5.7 Million Contract

Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry- docking Corp ., Norfolk, Va., has been awarded a $5.7 million contract for the dry docking phased maintenance availability of the USS Puget Sound (AD 38). The contract was awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Com- mand, Washington, D.C. (N00024- 85-H-8195).

Hitachi Zosen Completes

HZ MAN B&W-Powered 6,000-Unit PCTC 'Aida'

Tokyo-based Hitachi Zosen Cor- poration recently completed the M/

S Aida, a 6,000-unit pure car/truck carrier, at its Maizuru Works. The 623-foot-long by 106-foot-beam ves- sel was delivered to Rederi AB

Wallship of Sweden.

The M/S Aida's main engine is an

HZ MAN B&W 8L60MC-type diesel with a maximum continuous output of 17,020 hp at 105.5 rpm, producing a maximum trial speed of 20.57 knots.

The vessel can carry 6,118 auto- mobiles and is equipped with four liftable decks to accommodate many other kinds of vehicles such as trucks, minibuses, large buses and forklifts.

Two shore ramps are installed,

The car/truck carrier M/S Aida, built by Hitachi

Zosen at its Maizuru Works. one at the starboard side in midship and another at the stern (starboard side) on the fifth car deck level, are designed to enable the loading of heavy vehicles such as 125-ton trail- ers.

The ship is provided with a "shil- ling rudder" for wider-angle steer- ing, which allows outstanding ma- neuverability, especially in port, in combination with her bow thruster.

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Port Everglades Awards

Contract For Oil Spill

Contingency Plan

The Port Everglades Spillage

Committee recently awarded a con- tract to the Florida Oil Spill Re- sponse Group, Inc., to develop an oil spill contingency plan which will range from a 10,000 gallon petro- leum spill to a 150,000 barrel spill.

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