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Austal Enters Japanese Market

With $7.8 Million Sale

Austal Ships of Western Austra- lia has penetrated the Japanese market with the sale of a 141-foot (43-m), $7.8 million passenger cata- maran to Japanese shipping opera- tor, Diamond Ferry, which is a sub- sidiary of Mitsui OSK Lines. "Our vessel will be an ambassa- dor to Japan and we're confident it will be the first of many more," said

Austal Ships President John

Rothwell.

Diamond Ferry is diversifying its fleet of steel car/passenger ferries to include Austal's ultra-fast 331- passenger aluminum catamaran.

The vessel, which is scheduled for delivery in May 1995, will operate on a prestigious new route which connects Matsuyama on Shikoku Is- land and Oita on Kyushu island.

Driven by four MTU diesel en- gines, which will drive the vessel to an operating speed of 42 knots, the vessel will complete the journey in two hours.

Atlas Elektronik Wins VTS

Order From Qingdao Port

Atlas Elektronik won an order from the Port of Qingdao for its new 9730 radar-based vessel traffic ser- vice system. It follows the recent installation of a similar system at the port of Shanghai, enabling cov- erage of all traffic on the Yangtse

River up to the Huang Po River.

Recently developed by Atlas

Elektronik, the 9730 VTS incorpo- rates advanced radar processing scan converter and tracking func- tions using a multi-function digital signal processor board.

The new Qingdao Atlas VTS com- prises a main control center with two operator workstations, each equipped with two traffic displays and a ship data display. Associated processing facilities are connected via a digital microwave link to a proprietary X-band Atlas radar sited at nearby Huangdao.

SeaArk Delivers Crewboat

To Panama Canal

The Dredging Division of the

Panama Canal Commission recently accepted delivery of a 36-ft. (11-m)

Dauntless crewboat from Sea Ark

Marine of Monticello, Ark.

The all-welded, aluminum boat replaces two older boats from the

Commission's fleet and will be used to transport employees to and from dredges working along the canal.

Depending on the location of the dredges, the new boat will make one-way trips up to almost 20 miles (32 km) in length.

Speed was an important require- ment of the new SeaArk, which is powered by three Volvo diesel en- gines, coupled to triple Hamilton waterjets — helping the Dauntless achieve a speed of over 36 mph dur- ing trials. The deep-vee hull was designed by C. Raymond Hunt As- sociates of Boston, Mass.

Company Wins OTC Award

For Fluid Technology

Single Buoy Moorings, Inc. (SBM), Monaco, a designer and sup- plier of single-point mooring sys- tems and tanker-based floating stor- age and floating production systems, was awarded the Best Mechanical

Engineering Achievement Award at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas.

The award, sponsored by the

American Society of Mechanical

Engineers (ASME) Petroleum Divi- sion, was presented to SBM, which with its sister company IMODCO developed a high-pressure fluid swivel—a key component of tanker- based Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) systems worldwide.

Single-point moored FPSO sys- tems have been used to develop marginal offshore oil fields in manj parts of the world, including thf

North Sea and the South China Sea for the past 20 years.

But the use of FPSO systems has been restricted by the pressure and size limitations of fluid swivel as- semblies, according to SBM, which says its new swivel advances the use of FPSO systems to handle sev- eral high-pressure multi-product flowpaths.

MSRC Recognized By

Computerworld Smithsonian

The Marine Spill Response Cor- poration (MSRC) was named a fi- nalist by the 1994 Computerworld

Smithsonian Awards (CWSA) pro- gram for some of the year's most innovative uses of information tech- nology.

MSRC's Spill Operations System (SOS) is a highly-complex decision support system based on a client- server architecture. The SOS pro- vides information systems support for critical spill response functions.

The SOS system provides com- mand/control/communication capa- bilities for more effective manage- ment of response operations; allows for centralized management of data with decentralized access and deci- sion-making; provides real-time tracking of the availability and loca- tion of critical resources; and pro- vides cost-accounting data and spill events tracking information.

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