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Keppel Joint Venture Signs

Lease For Australian Yard

The signing of an agreement to lease between the Port of Brisbane

Authority and Keppel Cairncross

Drydock Australia Ltd. signaled the commencement of a $16 million project to bring the 85,000-dwt

Cairncross Drydock at Bulimba in

Brisbane back into commission by the third quarter of 1994.

Keppel Cairncross Drydock Aus- tralia Ltd. is a joint venture com- pany formed by Singapore-based public company Keppel Corporation

Ltd., a conglomorate with core busi- nesses in shiprepair and shipbuild- ing, rigbuilding, property, banking and financial services, engineering and shipping. Australian share- holders include shareholders of the

Brisbane-based Maritime Engineer- ing Group. Keppel Corp. Ltd. owns a 60 percent share in the new joint venture, while Australian share- holders hold the balance.

On completion of the work,

Cairncross Drydock would be a 24- hour integrated marine shiprepair and refurbishment facility, provid- ing a "Panamax" width drydock spe- cifically targeted at the international commercial shipping industry.

For more information on Keppel,

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Schichau Seebeckwerft

Delivers Container Vessel To

Conti Reederei

Schichau Seebeckwerft AG,

Bremerhaven, delivered newbuild- ing no. 1082 to Conti Reederei,

Unterfohring, near Munich.

Karin Ehlermann was the spon- sor and named the ship Contship

New Zealand. The new ship was handed over to Conti Zweite Corso

Schiffahrtsgesselschafit GmbH & Co.

Contship New Zealand will be man- aged by NSB - Niederelbe

Schiffahrtsgesellschaft GmbH & Co. and enter a long-term charter with

May, 1994

Contship Container Lines, Ipswich,

U.K. The new ship has a container capacity of 1,684 TEU, 618 TEU below deck and 1,066 TEU on deck.

Instead of 70 plugs for refrigerated containers the ship is now equipped with 152 plugs. As a consequence of the higher number of refrigerated containers a third diesel generator was installed.

Contship New Zealand has three deck cranes with a lifting capacity of 40 tons each. The main engine, a

Bremer Vulkan/MAN-Burmeister &

Wain type 7 1 60 MC developing 13,125 kW, was increased from six to seven cylinders. The speed of the ship increased from 18.3 to 19.1 knots. For more information on

Schichau Seebeckwerft,

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Marco Receives Oil Skimmer

Order From Australia

Marco Pollution Control and its

Australian agent Holaust Pty. Ltd. received an order from the Austra- lian Maritime Safety Authority for three 28-foot fast response oil recov- ery vessels. The Marco-designed

Harbor 28 vessels, complete with

Marco's Filterbelt oil and debris re- covery systems, will be built in Aus- tralia. The three vessels are sched- uled for delivery this summer.

The all-aluminum Marco Harbor 28 (formerly Class I-C) oil recovery vessel is 28.8 feet long (8.75 m), with a beam of eight feet (2.4 m) and a depth of three feet (.9 m). Powered by twin 70 hp OMC outboard en- gines, it can respond at speeds of up to 15 knots. The Harbor 28 features a one-foot Filterbelt oil and debris recovery system with a Marco U040 submersible oil transfer pump. The

Marco Filterbelt is reportedly very efficient for removing oil mixed with debris from open water. It removes the oil directly without requiring further separation. For more infor- mation on Marco,

Circle 9 on Reader Service Card and installed HD670E-8 Wesmars (these with hydraulic hoists) on three vessels.

The Wesmar HD600E sonar was used by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans for locating and assessing herring stocks in wa- ter off British Columbia in western

Canada, from the Washington bor- der to Queen Charlotte.

The Fisheries department pur- chased 18 new Wesmar HD600E sonars.

A 60kHz Wesmar HD600E was also installed aboard the 65-foot (20- m) Slaeddoe, near the port city of

Lyseki, between Gothenburg, Swe- den and Oslo, Norway. The scanner is being used for shallow water "pair" purse seining. The HD600E's key advantage reportedly is its ability to distinguish the size of schools of fish.

For more information on Wesmar,

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Nfesmar HD600E Sonars In Sea Trials Around The World

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The results are in for 12 months if evaluation ofthe Wesmar HD600E high powered searchlight sonar.

The Wesmar HD600E series was

Fisheries Patrol Boat the Tanu uses Wesmar

HD600E sonar for locating and assessing herring stocks in the waters off British Columbia, Canada. studied in three diverse fisheries:

Chile, Sweden and Canada. In all three areas, the Wesmar sonars met with success.

The Wesmar HD670E color scanning sonar was used for long range mack- erel detection in Chile, and the Chilean fishing com- pany Pesquero El Golfo reported excellent results using the product. The results were reportedly so successful that a similar

HD670E-8 sonar was pur- chased for a second boat in the company, the

Patria. The news of El

Golfo's success with these two sonars reached the port of San Antonia, where a second Chilean fishing company,

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