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Tech-Tran's Marine Duty

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Optimum Performance

Tech-Tran Corp.'s Marine Duty

Rectifier and Distribution Trans- formers are designed to work a ship's variable speed power-driven propulsion systems.

Tech-Tran's distribution trans- formers are built to distribute power for shipboard operations, including bow and stern thrusters, and elec- trical equipment.

On ships without SCR-drive equipment, the distribution trans- formers can be incorporated into the power-train system. Tech-

Tran's rectifier transformer's power range is 10 KVA to 20 MVA; the power range of the distribution transformer is 45 KVA to 5,000

KVA. Tech-Tran's Marine Duty

Transformers are built according to ABS, NEMA, ANSI/IEEE and

U.S. Coast Guard Standards.

Tech-Tran's Marine Duty Trans- formers are used on cruise ships, riverboat gaming vesssels, research ships and naval vessels, including the AGOR-class oceanographic re- search boats, the Queen of New

Orleans riverboat, and the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vincent.

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James Marine Services

Appoints New Agent

James Marine Services (JMS) announced the appointment of Sea

Power Hellas Ltd. as agent to serve its interests in the Greek ship sup- ply market. James Marine Services has concluded an agreement with

Piraeus-based Sea Power Hellas to represent both JMS Japan and JMS

UK in Greece. James Marine Ser- vices recently earned continued ac- creditation to ISO 9002.

MHI Wins Two

Containership Orders From

Singapore

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI),through Marubeni Corpora- tion, has received an order for two 1,128-TEU containerships from Re- gional Container Lines Pte. Ltd. in

Singapore, a subsidiary of Regional

Container Lines Public Company

Limited in Thailand. The first ship will be delivered in November 1995 and the second in December 1995.

MHI will build these containerships at its Shimonoseki

Shipyard & Machinery Works.

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Art Anderson Assists In

Ferry, SLICE Projects

Art Anderson Associates, an en- gineering firm in Bremerton,

Wash., was recently selected for its

August, 1994

Board Approves Modernization Of inree rori m Bammoro vranes

Governor William Bonald

Schaefer announced the Board of

Public Works' approval of a contract to modernize and improve the effi- ciency of three container cranes at the Maryland Port Administration's

Dundalk Marine Terminal in the

Port of Baltimore.

Maryland-based Whiting-Turner

Contracting Co., Inc. was approved for the $9.5 million contract. It will increase the productivity and ex- tend the life expectancy of the cranes by 20 years. This will be the first major modification of the three cranes. The improvements include providing new programmable digi- tal controllers, motors, diesel elec- tric generator sets, wiring, eleva- tors and other modifications, result- ing in an increase in trolleying and hoisting speeds. The cranes will be capable of handling 30 container moves per hour, up from the cur- rent average of 22 moves per hour.

Expected to be completed by the spring of 1995, the upgrading of the three IHI-made cranes continues the modernization of the 570-acre

Dundalk facility, the port's largest general cargo terminal.

The Board recently approved the purchase of a $7.4 million container crane, which, when brought on line next year, will give Dundalk 10 con- tainer cranes. services on two projects.

The city of Vallejo, Calif, selected the firm to prepare the specifications and assist in vessel selection for pro- curement of two new high-speed 350- passenger ferries to operate between

Vallejo and San Francisco; and Ha- waii-based Navatek Ships selected them to assist its SLICE program, in developing a new generation of high- speed, low-waterplane area ships.

The new vessels for Vallejo will augment service currently being pro- vided by the MV Jet Cat Express, recently purchased by Vallejo from

Catalina Express and operated by

Blue and Gold Fleet of San Fran- cisco.

Art Anderson Associated also as- sisted the city of Vallejo in the selec- tion and purchase of the MV Jet Cat

Express.

Navatek's SLICE program is a joint venture between Navatek and

Lockheed Missiles and Space.

It is intended to produce low- waterplane area ships, which are reportedly known for excellent seakeeping, but nonetheless mostly operated in moderate speed regimes — such as the two existing Navatek

SWATHs, with speeds of 15 to 22 knots.

The new SLICE, drawing on

Lockheed's advanced technology and modeling capabilities, will have a service speed of 30 knots.

Art Anderson will provide producibility, operability, and main- tainability review of the design con- cept, and will execute detailed de- sign of the passenger modules and interior space — assisting in bring- ing the advanced technology into the production phase.

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PSY Director Warns Against

Lifting Alaska Oil Ban

Lifting the federal ban on the export of Alaskan crude would seri- ously damage the Portland Ship

Yard (PSY) and cost up to 700 Port- land jobs a year, warned Mike

Thorne, Port of Portland executive director. Mr. Thorne said he is try- ing to create support for Senate bill 1265 and House Bill 2670, both of which would extend the ban.

The ban was imposed in 1973 as a way to improve U.S. oil self-suffi- ciency. It was on the basis of this firm federal policy that Portland voters approved an $84 million ex- pansion of PSY — which included building a mammoth floating drydock to handle the new Alaskan crude oil tankers coming into ser- vice. Mr. Thorne says close to about 80 percent of PSYs repair jobs are tankers, and 67 percent of those tankers are in the Alaskan oil fleet. "Largely on the basis of this tanker business, Portland has be- come the leading commercial shiprepair center on the West Coast," said Mr.Thorne. "Lifting the crude oil export ban would take away a shiprepair market niche Portland created for itself," because if crude is exported, it is almost certain these tankers will be repaired on the other side of the Pacific.

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