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Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre

Receives Contract To Build

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Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre (ACH) has announced that it has received a contract to build a re- search and Austral supply vessel for a joint venture constituted by

Compagnie Generale Maritime and

TAAF (Administration of French

Austral and Antarctic Territories).

The vessel is scheduled for deliv- ery at the beginning of 1995 and will replace the present "Marion

Dufresne." It will be capable of per- forming research, as well as being able to transport 109-TEU contain- ers and approximately 1,000-cubic meters of gas oil to the Austral Ter- ritories. There will be a capacity for 160 scientists and missionaries. The vessel will also be fitted with a heli- copter platform and a hangar to ac- commodate two helicopters.

It will be classed with Bureau

Veritas as an 13/3 E Special Purpose

Ship.

It will be 392.4 feet long, have a beam of 67.6 feet and a draft of 22.8 feet. The main generating sets will be Wartsila Vasa 8R32 and 6R32 models.

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Finland-Based Cadmatic

Offers New Machinery-Area

Design System

Engineering Centrum Groningen

B.V. (ECG), which is the design/en- gineering organization of Central In- dustry Groep N.V., Holland, has strengthened its position as a ma- chinery area designer by purchasing

Cadmatic PMS plant design system, and the NUPAS system for ship con- struction.

Cadmatic PMS is a database- driven, three-dimensional design system for diagram, layout, piping and HVAC design and documenta- tion of engine rooms and other ma- chinery and outfitting areas.

Cadmatic PMS is developed by

Cadmatic Oy, which is a member of the Elomatic Group.

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B.V., another company in the Cen- tral Industrie Groep, has developed, together with Cadmatic Oy, an intel- ligent interface between Cadmatic

PMS and its own hull/construction system, NUPAS.

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