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Atlas' FINAS 160 Developed

To Help Find, Catch Fish

For use on fishing vessels, Atlas

Elektronik GmbH of Bremen has developed the new, integrated Fish- ing and Navigation System, Atlas

FINAS 160. All relevant informa- tion for navigation, fish detection and catching is functionally com- bined here in a single system, thus greatly easing the task of the fisher- man, who has to make effective de- cisions during the catching process.

The number of sensing and con- trol devices on the ship's bridge is continually increasing, requiring the monitoring of numerous displays.

The Atlas FINAS 160 acts as an operational center, displaying the situation in the fishing region on a high-resolution color screen. The skipper thus has access to all infor- mation at a glance.

These high requirements for fast display and reliable decision-mak- ing made it necessary to introduce a special multi-processor computer system for the Atlas FINAS 160. As a result, twelve different sensors such as: radar, fishing echosounder and satellite navigation equipment - can be connected to the system and their signals can be processed. The display has 16 colors and 1,024 by 768 pixels. The graphic functions are performed more than a hundred times faster than in a conventional

PC graphics system.

For future considerations, the pro- gramming system is flexible and it is possible to introduce extensions later on without difficulty.

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Texaco Pays $59 Million

For Last Lasmo Tanker

Texaco has purchased the suezmax tanker Citadelle from the

UK oil and energy group Lasmo for $59 million. The Citadelle, a 148,500 - dwt tanker currently under con- struction in South Korea, is the third, and last to be sold, in a series of suezmax tankers ordered by Lasmo's subsidiary Ultramar in 1990 from

Samsung Heavy Industries in South

Korea.

The Citadelle meets all U.S. Oil

Pollution Act standards and new regulations for double hulls adopted by the International Maritime Or- ganization, and is scheduled to trade in U.S. waters.

Hapag-Lloyd Continues

Buying Reefer Containers

Hapag-Lloyd Inc. plans to have 400 new reefer container units en- ter service before the heavy ship- ping season for refrigerated prod- ucts, and the company is continuing to buy new units. The Hamburg- based company ordered 200 contain- ers from a Florida-based company, significant as it is the first time the carrier ever placed a reefer container order with a U.S.-based company.

Offering weekly reefer service to and from Northern Europe, Gulf and

Atlantic Coasts and the Pacific, the new containers are scheduled for primary use in Hapag-Lloyd's North

American trade.

Growth of LNG Worldwide

Hinges On Cost Reductions

The worldwide demand for lique- fied natural gas (LNG) is lookingup, so long as producers, sellers, and deepsea transporters of LNG can manage to bring the costs down.

This message came from the LNG 10 Conference at which approxi- mately 2,000 participants from all over the world gathered recently in

Kuala Lumpur.

Considering the world's deplet- ing oil resources coupled with the burgeoning demand for new power plants in the Pacific Rim, Latin

America and eastern Europe, the golden age for LNG is approaching, said conference officials. The world

LNG trade is expected to double or triple over the next two decades, provided certain costs can be con- tained.

For example, marine transport in methane carriers can account for 30 percent of LNG's total costs.

French partners GdF, Total, Elf

Aquitaine and the French Petroleum

Institute have formed a coalition to find ways of reducing marine trans- port costs by one-third. To date, two possibilities under consideration to slice transportation costs include: extending existing LNG transport ship's service lives, as first genera- tion ships are reputed to be strongly built with a variety of design op- tions; and construction of new ships with capacities of up to 200,000 cubic meters, with lower boil-off rates and new propulsion and control systems.

Shipping costs are not the lone factor under scrutiny, however. The price of developing gas fields ac- counts for approximately 50 percent of the total cost of an LNG project.

One alternative currently being used is extending the facilities and ca- pacities of existing production fa- cilities.

Krupp MaK To Supply

Engines For LPG Ships

The primary propulsion unit for the newest Unigas liquefied gas car- rier ordered from Appledore Ship- builders is a 6M551 -type engine sup- plied by German diesel manufac- turer Krupp MaK. The new series of 3,400 cubic meter and 4,400 cubic meter modern chemical gas carri- ers, to be operated within the Unigas

BV pool, are being supplied from various European shipyards, includ- ing Appledore and Richard Dunston (Hessle). All told 12 ships worth approximately $ 180 million were or- dered. Of those 12, eight are sched- uled to be built with MaK main propulsion units.

The smaller 3,400 cubic meter capacity Appledore ships are to be powered by Krupp MaK's 8M453C- type diesel engine, while the larger 4,400 cubic meter Richard Dunston ships will be propelled by the 6M551- type units. The even larger 5,600 cubic meter Appledore vessels will also have the 6M551-type units on board.

Unigas associate member Othello

Shipping has ordered a ship similar to those being built by Richard

Dunston, outfitted with a MaK551 diesel.

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ABS Releases Guide To

Assess Fatigue Strength

The Guide for the Fatigue

Strength Assessment of Tankers, targeting surveyors using designer- oriented fatigue assessment meth- ods for tanker structures, has been published by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).

Included in the guide is informa- tion on fatigue-strength data, struc- tural detail classification, design loads, structural modeling proce- dures, permissible stress ranges and the treatment of stress concentra- tions. The guide's criteria are com- plete in terms of the load compo- nents as well as types and locations of structural details considered.

To accompany the guide ABS also developed a PC-based software pro- gram to allow the use of fatigue assessment criteria in the Fatigue

Guide. Used in conjunction with the guide, the software system will make calculations easier,the ABS claims.

The guide and software program are timely as concerns persist about the use of high tensile steels in tanker hull construction, and its correla- tion to premature fatigue-induced fracturing. Traditionally fatigue- induced fractures occurred late in the vessel's life. However, existing design practices which don't specifi- cally consider fatigue as a failure mode were accepted and fatigue frac- tures were repaired as ordinary ship maintenance.

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