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Boats & Barges

Fire/Rescue Boat Launched

By Trinity for Brazil

Equitable Shipyards, Inc., New

Orleans, a subsidiary of Trinity In- dustries, Inc., has launched the 106- foot by 24-foot fire/rescue boat

Governador Fleury. The emergency response vessel is the first of two identical boats being built by Trin- ity for Engineering Equipment Co.,

Inc., Downers Grove, 111., for use in

Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Each powered by two Detroit Die- sel 16V92TA diesel engines, the boats will each have two 4,000-gpm fire pumps, two 2,000-gpm under- wharf fire moniors, two 2,000-gpm forward deck monitors, two 1,300- gpm aft deck monitors, a deck crane, and a 75-foot telescoping ladder with a 1,000-gpm fire monitor.

Governador Fleury and its sister ship Commandante Cianciuli, will also have a diver's decompression chamber, air compressors for divers, a diver's/rescue platform, a small dispensary, and a superstructure spray mist system to keep the crew and vessel safer in close firefighting situations.

The Governador Fleury, the first of two fire/rescue boats being built by Equitable Shipyards, Inc., being launched.

John Dane III, president of the

Trinity Marine Group, which in- cludes Equitable, said: "This con- tract reflects our experience in build- ing numerous emergency response vessels. Some are small single mis- sion boats, some are multipurpose like the Governador Fleury, and oth- ers are very sophisticated like the twelve 208-foot oil spill response vessels we are building for the Ma- rine Spill Response Corporation."

The Trinity Marine Group,

Gulfport, Miss., is owned by Trinity

Industries, Inc., Dallas, Texas.

In addition to Equitable Ship- yards, Inc., other shipbuilding com- panies in the group are: Halter Ma- rine, Inc.; Moss point Marine, Inc.;

Gretna Machine & Iron Works, Inc.;

Aluminum Boats, Inc.; HBC Barge

Inc.; Trinity-Beaumont, Inc.; and

Trinity Marine-Gulfport, Inc.

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Rochem To Provide

Water Supply Systems

For Two Ferries

Rochem Marine of Genoa has en- tered into an agreement with Grandi

Traghetti, a Grimaldi Group com- pany and one of the largest ferry operators in Italy, to provide re- verse osmosis desalination equip- ment for two new passenger/car fer- ries being built by Nuovi Cantieri

Apuania S.pA. of Italy.

Each of the 30,000-grt vessels will have a complement of 1,450 passen- gers and 150 crew, which requires that there always be a constant sup- ply of water. In a proposal recom- mended by Rochem, and accepted by the owner, each of the ships would be fitted with two double bottom tanks, both with a 200-ton capacity.

The tanks would be filled with clean sea water during each voyage for use while in port.

The Rochem sea suction system will be transferred to the double bottoms while in port so that water production can continue to operate at full capacity without clogging the system with silt or sand during dock- ing procedures. With the system the vessel is reported to be freed from dependence on shoreside fa- cilities and the size of the produc- tion unit is reduced by 25 percent to allow for lower operating expenses.

Each of the vessels will have two

Rochem Model 8100 DISC-TUBE 150S systems, both of which will provide 150 tons of water per day without the requirement of pre- or post-treatment. The patented sys- tem is reported to provide a method of flow management which allows for a higher performance rating and incorporates a cleaning process which can return the equipment to an optimum operating condition. Ac- cording to Rochem, the system has proven its reliability aboard all types of vessels, ranging from submarines to cruise vessels.

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Russian Organizations

Help IDB Introduce

New Services In CIS

IDB Communications Group, Inc.,

Houston, Texas, a leading supplier of specialized telecommunications services, recently announced the in- troduction of new joint service offer- ings with both the Russian Satellite

Communications Company (RSCC) and Morsviazsputnik.

The agreements for private line, public telephone and mobile voice and data communications services between the U.S. and the Common- wealth of Independent States (CIS) are expected to aid further business development in the region by U.S. oil and energy companies and other industries.

The announcements were made by Edward Cheramy, president of

IDB; Jon Klein, vice president and general manager of IDB Aero-Nau- tical; Valeriy Bogdanov, president of Morsviazsputnik; and George

Sapov, technical director of RSSC.

An exclusive agreement between

IDB and RSCC provides for private line and public telephone and data communications between the U.S., the CIS and the Baltic States using the Russian Statsionar 5 satellite.

RSSC, a Russian State company, operates domestic and international ground earth stations and teleports.

The agreement between IDB and

Morsviazsputnik provides for a full range of mobile satellite communi- cation services using the Inmarsat satellite system from within the CIS.

Morsviazsputnik, a Russian State company, operates major coast earth stations as the Russian Signatory to

Inmarsat, supporting the mobile communications of maritime and land mobile users are provided through the company's IDB Aero-

Nautical (IDB-A) unit.

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