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Commercial Containership

That Converts To RoRo

Proposed For Sealift Use

A ship that would serve as a com- mercial containerhsip in peacetime, but have the ability to quickly con- vert to a militarily-useful roll-on/ roll-off (RoRo) vessel during a na- tional emergency, has been proposed in a paper presented during a recent meeting of the Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME).

Charles Cherrix, chief of the

Maritime Administration's naval architecture division, and Marc

Lasky, the division's assistant chief, proposed a ship with remov- able RoRo decks. The decks could be stacked in a vessel's container slots or on shore, while the ship operates as a commercial containership.

While commercial operators gener- ally prefer containerships, RoRo ves- sels have the optimum configuration for the military, which requires a ship that can carry heavy equipment and vehicles and unload them at ports that may not be equipped with their own cargo cranes.

The authors proposed a 1,900-teu capacity vessel that would be more than 650-feet long and would cost approximately $160 million if built in a U.S. shipyard.

Kvaerner Warnow Werft

Receives Order For

Two More Containerships

The Kvaerner Warnow Werft shipyard in Germany has been awarded an order for two 1,400-teu containerships worth approximately $31 million each. The new order extends the yard's orderbook of 10 vessels, three of which were received since joining the Kvaerner Group, until the end of 1993.

Keel laying work for both of the 19,000-dwt vessels is scheduled to begin immediately. The first containership is being built for the account of Interorient Navigation,

Cyprus, and the other is for Dietrich

Tanke, of Hamburg. The ships are due to be delivered in November and

December of 1993, respectively.

The vessels will be 548 feet in length and have an 82-foot beam.

The ship's cargo holds will be fully cellular, but no cargo handling gear will be carried onboard either ves- sel. To give the two containerships the capability to carry refrigerated containers, 140 power points will be fitted.

The shipyard has about 3,000 em- ployees and is undergoing a modern- ization program due to be completed in 1996. Eventually, Kvaerner

Warnow Werft will be able to con- struct ships of up to 180,000 dwt.

Navy Awards Contract For $69.1 Million To Rockwell

The U.S. Navy has awarded a contract to Anaheim, Calif.-based

Rockwell International Corp- oration's Autonetics Marine and

Aircraft Systems Division (AMASD) for information transfer systems to be installed aboard the Navy's

Arleigh Burke (DDG 51)-Class guided missile destroyers. The ini- tial award is for five ship sets valued at $29.2 million and scheduled for delivery in April 1995, with options for up to eight additional ship sets worth $39.9 million.

The equipment, the AN/USQ- 82(V) Data Multiplexing System (DMS), is a shipboard networking system that distributes ship sys- tems information throughout the vessel.

AMASD is already under contract for 16 DMS systems for the DDG 51 through DDG 66. A smaller version is also produced for the Wasp (LHD 1)-Class amphibious assault ship.

The DDG 51-Class DMS uses five linear coaxial cables to replace the miles of hardwire that are tradition- ally needed to link shipboard elec- tronic systems.

Along with reducing weight, wiring costs and installation time, the DMS is a modular-designed information trans- fer system that provides a new level of flexibility for adding or changing elec- tronic equipment duringthe host vessel's lifetime.

For more information about

Rockwell's shipboard DMS,

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