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Port Of Tyne

Orders Container

Crane From Liebherr

The Port of Tyne Authority, of the

United Kingdom, is spending about $7.23 million to extend a quay in order to facilitate panamax opera- tions, and to expand container fa- cilities which serve the North Sea feeder routes.

The port has ordered a quayside crane from Liebherr Container

Cranes Ltd. to be used for container and bulk handling. The crane will have a waterside outreach of about 80 feet, a rail span of 119.8 feet and a backreach of 32.8 feet. Spreader height will be 68.2 feet above the ground. The capacity is 32 tons under telescopic spreader and 20 tons gross grab weight.

The crane drive control system will be a Liebherr designed and built

Thyrovert system of thyristor regu- lation. The switchgear will be fitted with a fault diagnostics system and a Liebherr telescopic spreader will be installed on the crane.

Delivery of the crane is scheduled for early 1993 and will be manufac- tured, assembled and tested at

Liebherr in Killarney, Ireland.

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FCC Proposes Use

Of VTS Radio System

For Port Of San Francisco

The Federal Communications

Commission (FCC) has proposed that the Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) radio protection system be made mandatory for all tankers and large cargo ships using the Port of

San Francisco.

The FCC would like to make VHF channel 14 the designated VTS chan- nel for the port.

The VTS system was designed to prevent collisions and groundings by requiring as a result of mandat- ing that all vessels report their move- ments while operating within a VTS zone.

DBW Shipyards Launches

First Passenger Vessels

Since German Reunification

The passenger vessel, M/S

Havelperle, was recently christened and launched at Schiffswerft Malz which is near Berlin. This report- edly was the first launching of a passenger vessel in Brandenberg since the reunification of Germany.

The M/S Havelperle, which was built for the Berlin shipping com- pany Bethke, is a replica of an old

Mississippi paddle steamer with a

June, 1992 119 stern wheel. The vessel is 114.6 feet long, with a beam of 16.4 feet and a draft of 2.8 feet. Power is supplied by an MTU 8 V 183 diesel engine which drives a Schottel pump-jet

SPJ 57.

The passenger ship M/S

Warsteiner was launched at the shipyard in Tangermeunde for own- ers Reederei Allard of Kobern-Godorf near Coblenz. The vessel is 159.3 feet long, with a beam of 31.2 feet and a draft of 3.3 feet. Two 450-hp

Caterpillar diesels will drive two

Schottel rudderpropellers type SRP 170.

Werft Malz and Tangermeunde are part of the DBW Deutsche

Binnenwerften GmbH. The other shipyards which make up this group are in Genthin, Laubegast and Ber- lin-Stralau. Managing directors of

DBW are Wolfgang Richter and

Josef Walter.

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BP Begins Its

Largest Seismic Survey

BP has announced that it has started its largest 3D seismic sur- vey ever. The survey will be con- ducted in the Norwegian and UK offshore sectors at a cost of about $54.2 million. Four vessels will be employed in the program over a six- month period.

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