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Evergreen Orders Five

New Containerships

From Japanese Shipyards

Evergreen Line, a Taiwanese shipping-to-aviation company, has placed an order for five more 4,000-

TEU 'R' class containerships at

Onomichi Dockyard in Japan and

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).

Reports indicate that the order is valued at about $500 million. The deal involves Onomichi building two vessels and MHI building the other three. All five vessels will be built according to plans developed by

Onomichi engineers.

Evergreen has already had 18 ships built at the Onomichi yard, but due to Japanese governmental legislation, Onomichi is restricted over the size of the vessels which can be built at the yard. At the present time Onomichi has three 3,388-TEU 'R' class vessels under construction for Evergreen and all are expected to be delivered some time next year with plans to imme- diatelyjumboize the vessels to 3,950

TEU.

With the five additional vessels being built in Japan, the total num- ber of 'R' class vessels built in that country will be 10. The order placed at MHI is the first that Evergreen )IESEL TECHNOLOGY TAILORED TO YOUR NEEDS ^-"7250rP srld 1' u ">5

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The 'R' class vessels will be 872.7 feet long, with a beam of 105.7 feet and a draft of 41 feet. Operating speed is expected to be 23 knots.

The vessels will be about 964.6 feet long once they are jumboized.

Decking Design Receives $474,000 Contract From

Marine Hydraulics

Decking Design, Norfolk, Va., has received a $474,000 contract award from Norfolk, Va.-based Marine

Hydraulics International (MHI) for the installation of interior and exte- rior marine decking systems aboard the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift

Command (MSC) supply ship USNS

Saturn.

Decking Design will perform reefer box deck upgrades to the

USNS Saturn utilizing the 7K-Mag- nesite and Promdeck systems de- veloped by the Selby Division of

Quaker Construction Products.

The project also calls for the re- work of the USNS Saturn's weather decks and the installation of

International's Proreco III, a flex- ible, exterior nonskid deck coating system.

Repairs to the ship will be per- formed at MHI's Norfolk repair fa- cility on the Eastern Branch of the

Elizabeth River.

For more information on the ma- rine decking systems available from

Decking Design,

Circle 4 on Reader Service Card

Kobelt Offers New

Electronic Helm

The new model 7172 Electronic

Helm from Kobelt Manufacturing

Company, Richmond, British Co- lumbia, Canada, has been intro- duced for use with hydraulic steer- ing systems. The unit provides an electronic signal to the hydraulic steering gear, which then positions the rudder.

Constructed of bronze and stain- less steel, the electronic helm is designed to give years of trouble- free service and carries a five-year warranty. Its heavy-duty construc- tion allows the helmsman firm and positive control in any weather con- ditions.

The electronic helm is normally equipped with two potentiometers.

The first is used with an amplifier interface to send the rudder either port or starboard. When used with a feed-back unit, precise rudder po- sitioning is achieved.

The second potentiometer indi- cates rudder demand. The actual rudder position is sent back through the feed-back unit to a separate rudder angle indicator.

For additional free information about Kobelt's model 7172 Elec- tronic Helm,

Circle 76 on Reader Service Card

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