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Hyundai To Provide Weekly Transpacific Container Service To Port Of Portland

The Port of Portland will receive a new weekly transpacific container service from Hyundai Merchant

Marine, one of Korea's major con- tainer carriers, starting in early

April.

To accommodate this service, the

Port of Portland Commission ap- proved a two-year terminal use agreement with Hyundai.

Hyundai will rotate five vessels

MarAd News • The Maritime Administration ap- proved an application by Triton

Industries, a British Virgin Islands corporation, to transfer ownership of the Liberian drilling unit Sedco 703 to Sedco Forex International

Drilling, Inc., a Panamanian corpo- ration, without change in Liberian registry. The ship was built in 1974 in Avondale, La. • Freela, Inc., of Miami, Fla., has filed an application with MarAd to sell two deck barges—M 571 and M 572. The proposed purchaser is

Irvin Nadan Dewdath, Paramiribo,

Suriname. The 3,300-dwt barges were both built in 1969 in Harvey,

La. • MarAd has issued its 1993 survey of U.S. shipbuilding and repair fa- cilities. The survey was required by law primarily for use in deter- mining whether an adequate mobi- lization base exists for national de- in the service: the Portland, Seattle,

Vancouver, Tacoma and Longview.

The vessels have an average 2,000- teu capacity. To accommodate this and future sp-owth, the Port of Port- land has a $16 million crane expan- sion project underway at Terminal 6, is about to start a major rail ex- pansion program, and is acquiring 750 acres of West Hayden Island, adjacent to Terminal 6 on Columbia fense and for use in a national emer- gency. The survey provides a data- base that is used to evaluate the feasibility of proposed shipbuilding programs. Determinations are made as to which existing shipyards might construct proposed ships consistent with ship size and delivery date re- quirements. The Report on Survey of U.S. Shipbuilding and Repair Fa- cilities for 1993 may be obtained from MarAd's Office of External Af- fairs, room 7219; tel: (202) 366-5807.

Foss Maritime Delivers Sub

To Portland

Foss Maritime Company trans- ported U.S.S. Blueback, a 219-foot (66.75-m) submarine, from

Bremerton, Wash, to Portland, Ore., for permanent duty in the Willamette

River. The Blueback was released by the U.S. Navy in mid-February to be used by the Oregon Museum of

Science and Industry (OMSI), which

River navigation channel, for ma- rine development. In recent years,

Portland has reportedly led West

Coast ports in its rate of container growth. In 1993, Portland regis- tered a 10.1 percent rate of growth over 1992, when the West Coast growth rate was about 2-3 percent.

In 1992, Portland recorded a growth of 24 percent when the West Coast average was about 6 percent. is located on the waterfront in down- town Portland. The Blueback will be permanently docked adjacent to

OMSI and will serve as the center- piece of exhibits regarding under- sea exploration. Foss' oceangoing tug, the Howard Olsen, transported the Blueback from Puget Sound

Naval Shipyard in Bremerton to

Portland in approximately 48 hours.

The Blueback (SS 581), a diesel- electric powered submarine of the

Barbel class, is one of the last non- nuclear subs built by the Navy. Com- missioned in Oct. 1959, the sub was active from 1961 through 1990. It set a record for traveling 5,340 miles from Yokosuka, Japan to San Di- ego. Vessel modifications will be completed to provide easier access for visitors. The Blueback will be moved to its permanent dock beside

OMSI in April, and open to the public May 15, 1994.

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Aquastrada II

To Be MTU-Powered

Last year, the 331-foot (101-m)

Aquastrada caught international attention as the world's reported fastest ferry. The Italian operator,

Tirrenia, ordered a second ferry of the same construction which is pres- ently being completed by the

Rodriquez yard in Messina — as before, with an MTU propulsion plant.

The hull was completed at the end of February, with final comple- tion scheduled for the end of May.

The new Aquastrada II is to provide service between La Spezia and Olbia on the island of Sardinia at a cruis- ing speed of 43 knots.

She will carry up to 450 passen- gers and 120 cars. The propulsion plant is identical to the one on the

Aquastrada.

It consists of two 16-cylinderMTU

Series 595 engines, one located lat- erally on each side of a centrally located gas-turbine module compris- ing a General Electric LM2500 gas turbine, a subframe and an acoustic enclosure, the assembly of which was completed by MTU before

Christmas.

The total power of the diesels and gas turbine is roughly 28,000 kW (38,000 hp), which is transmitted through Renk-Tacke planetary gear- boxes to KaMeWa waterjets.

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The chair base is a one piece aluminum die casting with plated steel caster sockets installed within the legs. Stainless steel formed scuff plates mount on the leading surfaces of the legs and each leg is provided with protective plastic bumpers. The spread of the base is 25" measured diagonally. The base rests upon four plated hardened steel/rubber glides. Frame finish: All parts are chemically cleaned and coated with electrostatically applied powder coating. Upholstery covers are double stitched with multi-filament nylon thread, and the seat cover has multi-strand cord welt stitched within the seams. The standard upholstery material is artificial leather available in many standard colors.

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