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Trinity's Aluminum Boats

Delivers 25th Vessel To

Saudi Arabia's Barberlines

Aluminum Boats, Inc., of Crown

Point, La., a member of the Trinity

Marine Group (TMG), recently de- livered the crewboat Abeer Three to

Barberlines Arabian Navigation and

Shipping Company, Ltd., of Saudi

Arabia. It is the 25th vessel de- signed and built by Aluminum Boats for the Saudi Arabian company and replaces another Aluminum Boats- built vessel of the same name which was sold by its owners.

The Abeer Three is 86 feet long, with a 20-foot beam and a 9.3-foot depth. The vessel's normal operat- ing draft is 5.5 feet and she can carry up to 51 passengers and a crew of five.

Power is provided by two Detroit

Diesel 16V92TA engines, develop-

Circle 269 on Reader Service Card ing 1,100 shp each at 2,300 rpm, driving Rolla Nibral five-bladed pro- pellers through ZF reverse/reduc- tion gears. Two Detroit Diesel 3-71 engines power two 40-kW Kato gen- erators to provide the crewboat with electricity.

A partial listing of navigation and communications equipment in- cludes: two Furuno radars; a

Raytheon, Ray GPS navigator; two

Datamarine fathometers; a

Robertson gyrocompass; a Ritchie magnetic compass; two Sailor VHF radios; and an Icom SSB radio.

TMG, of Gulfport, Miss., is owned by Trinity Industries, Inc., Dallas,

Texas.

For additional free information about the services available from the Trinity Marine Group,

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Autronica Develops

Mooring Protection System

A system that monitors ships at quayside has been developed by

Autronica, of Trondheim, Norway.

The Autronica Mooring Protection

System GX-95 displays the chang- ing load on each mooring hook as a bar chart, and could be particularly useful for large tankers and ore car- riers during cargo loading and dis- charge operations.

The new system is designed to assist harbor supervisors by keep- ing them continuously informed of the load on each mooring point.

Loads measured by a strain gauge in the center of each mooring hook are displayed numerically in tons and graphically as a bar chart on a monitor. The condition of the moor- ing lines can be quickly observed, a rising bar turns from blue to red and releases an alarm at a preset ton- nage load limit, while a yellow bar indicates a signal malfunction. All data is saved so that each mooring history can be retrieved later. The surveillance monitor's image is de- signed to provide a true picture of the jetty layout with the correct number of hooks.

Autronica's mooring system can also be used in conjunction with the company's Berthing Aid System GX-90.

For additional free information about Autronica's new Mooring Pro- tection System GX-95,

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Department Of Interior

Moves To Encourage

U.S. Offshore Development

To provide a boost to U.S. domes- tic offshore oil and gas development, the Department of the Interior has announced that it will make several regulatory changes, including cuts in some required royalty payments to the government.

It is reported that the Depart- ment is seeking to provide oil com- panies with incentives to explore and develop offshore reserves that are now considered uneconomical or too risky.

The area that the Department of

Interior particularly has in mind for development is 208-million acres, mostly in the western and central

Gulf of Mexico, where oil and gas drilling is still allowed. The regula- tory changes will not affect large tracts off the U.S. coastline where drilling has been put on temporary hold by congressional prohibitions.

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