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Free 20-Page Booklet

On New Ritchie Compass

For Commercial Market

E.S. Ritchie & Sons, Inc., Pem- broke, Mass., is offering a free lit- erature package including a 20-page pamphlet and 8-page color brochure on its new electronic compass for the commercial market.

The new Ritchie MagTronic elec- tronic compass will be an important tool in simplifying vessel navigation and steering an accurate course track, according to the company.

Coupled to the Mag-Switch digital sensor, course headings have an ac- curacy of l/10th of 1 degree. The

MagTronic digital display provides a high visibility heading readout, an easy-to-follow off-course steering indicator, memory for two course headings, plus controls to stabilize readings in heavy seas and to re- duce lag in readout during turns.

The traditional appearance and function of a rotating compass dial is combined with a digital readout for precise navigational reference in the Ritchie Analog Display. Both types of displays can be easily in- stalled at multiple locations with- out regard to magnetic interference and are automatically corrected for deviation. A course can be set in memory at one location with the helmsman having the reference to steer at another location.

The MagTronic Heading System can also provide deviation corrected output to other navigation instru- ments, including NEMA 0183, N+l, sine/cosine and Ritchie serial.

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China Becomes

Major Player In World

Ship Demolition Market

With the purchase of a second retired very large crude carrier (VLCC), the Chinese continue to reinforce their position as major international ship-breakers.

The only country to purchase ships for scrapping this year, China has acquired two VLCCs and six capesize units, including combina- tion carriers, since its new year bud- get was allocated in February.

The Oslo-based ship broker,

Fernleys, reported that 21 tankers totaling 1.55 million dwt were com- mitted for scrap in this year's first quarter, compared with six vessels of 300,000 dwt in the same quarter of 1991.

Terminal Operators

Criticize CG For Lack

Of OPA9Q Details

Federal authorities are being criticized by U.S. oil terminal opera- tors for not providing adequate de- tails about the Oil Pollution Act of 1990's (OPA90) strict oil pollution laws that they will be required to meet by February 1993, or face be- ing shut down.

Citing the Coast Guard's expected delay in publishing OPA90 details, terminal operators are claiming that they will be late in meeting the Feb- ruary deadline for submitting oil spill contingency plans.

The Coast Guard has stated that it may not be able to meet its August deadline of publishing an outline of the almost 50 requirements for ter- minal contingency plans.

According to the Coast Guard, there are approximately 3,500 fa- cilities, mostly independently owned, that must submit plans. It is estimated that the cost of preparing a terminal contingency plan is al- most $70,000 per facility, or $245 million industry-wide in the first year, not including the cost of addi- tional required equipment, hiring contractors, joining a spill-response co-operative or training.

In conjunction with the Coast

Guard, the Environmental Protec- tion Agency is also preparing simi- lar regulations for non-transporta- tion storage facilities, which accord- ing to some terminal operators, may be even more costly to implement than the Coast Guard's require- ments. 96 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News