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Volvo Penta Power For Port Of London American Eagle Mfg. Designs New

Authority OSRV Concept For Rigid Bottom Inflatables

Otto Candies, Inc.. Des Alleraandes, La.. owns and operates a large fleet of tugs, towboata and other vessels serving worldwide offshore energy industries and inland waterways. Candies will lease the new vessels to Compania Paraguay a de

Transporte Fluvial S.A. of Asuncion, Paraguay to transport grain cargoes exclusively for Cargill

Agropecuaria S.A.C.I. on waterways through

Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Uru- guay. The lease of the barges and push boat was arranged by KRS Corp. of Jackson, Miss.

John Dane III. president ofTMG, said, This is an especially significant contract, because while we have built numerous towboats for gov- ernment use, this is our first one for commercial use in nearly two decades."

Construction of the new towboat has begun with delivery planned for the first quarter of 1995. Barge construction will begin in the fourth

Quarter of 1994, and all are expected to be delivered by the first quarter of 1995.

The new towboat will have a 47-ft. (14-m) beam and 10-ft. i.'i-mi depth. It will be powered by three General Motors EMD-E1 diesel en- gines, rebuilt by Stewart & Stevenson Services,

Inc. They will develop a total of'4,500 hp driving through Lufkin RS2118 reverse/reduction gears with a ratio of 3.71:1.

The 12 barges will consist of six rake and six box barges. The box barges will be 200 ft. (61 m) long, wiih a 52.5-ft. 116-m) beam and 11 -ft. < 3-m) draft. The rake barges will be almost identical, but 195 ft. (59 m) long. All will have four-ft. (1.2- m) coamings and will be outfitted with fiberglass; (FRF) lift covers.

For more information on TMG

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Trinity Marine To Build Towboat, 12 Barges For Operations In S.A.

Otto Candies III, secretary-treasurer of Otto Candies, Inc., and

Sidney Mizell, vice-president, sales of the Trinity Marine Group shake hands on fie signing of contracts to build one towboat and 12 barges, with options for 18 additional barges. Looking on is

Chris Cole, Trinity Marine Group inland sales representative.

This Trinity Marino Group (TMG) has bi-i-ri awarded a contract from Otto Candies, Inc. to build a 140-ft. (43-m), triple-screw 4,500-hp tow- boat and 12 hopper barges, with options for 18 additional rake barges. The tow boat will be built at Trinity's Halter Marine, Inc., Lockport, La., and the barges will be built at Trinity-

Madisonville, La.

Twin Volvo Penta TAMD 122D turbocharged and aftercooled diesels provide the propulsion power for Recover. Recover is the Protector 54- based oil spill recovery vessel (OSRV) completed by Prout Catamarans for Thames Oil Spill Clear- ance Association (TOSCA), and operated on its behalf by the Port of London Authority (PLA).

The twin Volvo Penta TAMD 122D diesels, each rated at 480 hp at 2,050 rpm, operate throughhydraulically-controlledPP170waterjet drives. The diesels enable the vessel to work in a polluted area while causing minimal distur- bance of the oil slick.

Recover — TOSCA's main recovery vessel — is a custom-built variant of the Prout Protector 61 cd.td.niBr^n

With a length of 54 ft. (16.5 m), beam of 21 ft. (7 m) and draft of 3 ft. (1 m),Recover retains the prime design criteria of the larger Protector 61.

Recover has a light load speed of more than 20 knots and a carrying capacity of 8 tons.

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Long-time commercial boat builder American

Eagle Manufacturing of La Conner, Wash, has come up with an alternative to the rigid bottom inflatable.

Named SAFE boats, this family of workboats from 17 ft. to 45 ft. (5 m to 14 m) combines a commercial grade welded aluminum hull with a bolted-on closed cell foam collar in place of the typical inflatable tube. By using this flotation system, SAFE boats reportedly have the same load carrying capacity and inherent stability of rigid bottom inflatables. Another feature of the foam collar is the D-shaped design that Ameri- can Eagle claims adds strength to the boat and allows more room for people and cargo.

Designed to stand up to hard use, the SAFE flotation system is made of a material originally developed to insulate oil pipelines. This material is reportedly resilient and buoyant and is coated with an abrasion-resistant polyethylene skin that results in a rugged foam collar that resists the effects of petroleum products, ultraviolet light or sub-zero temperatures.

For more information on

American Eagle Manufacturing

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KaMeWa Waterjets For Stena

High-Speed Ferry

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Four KaMeWa size 160 waterjet units are being installed in Stena's high-speed sea service ferry. With an output of 16,354 kW each, these units are reportedly the most powerful waterjets with steering and reversing gear built in the world to date.

The new ferry will have a service speed in the 40-knot range and accommodation for 1,500 pas- sengers and 375 cars. Scheduled for delivery in 1995, the vessel will operate in the Irish Sea.

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Evac To Supply Sanitation System To

Polish Ferry Building In Norway

Finland's Evac Oy, supplier of vacuum toilet systems to the shipping industry, won a contract in Norway for the design and supply of the marine sanitation system to the Polish ferry building at Norwegian west coast shipyard

Langsten Slip & Batbyggeri AS, in Tomrefjord.

Evac's contract calls for the supply of262 Evac 90 Aniara bulkhead mounted toilets and 28 Evac 90 Aniara deck mounted units. Also included in the order are four ejector collecting units: two mounted in the ferry's hull structure collecting tank, and two ejector units integrated into the vessel's sewage treatment plant.

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The need to deepen the Columbia River navigation channel was: reinforced August i 2 wh#h Evergreen Une'sEver Renown discharged and loaded 1,847 containers for a new record at the Port of

Portland's Terminal 6. This was a 25 percent increase over the previous Portland container record set only a few months ago by another Evergreen R-class vessel.

Deepening of the Columbia River channel from 40 ft. to 43 ft. (12 m to 13 m) is in feasibility study stage by the U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers. Local sponsors of the project include the seven lower

Columbia River ports of Portland, St. Helens and Astoria, Oregon; and Longview. Kalama, Woodland and Vancouver, Washington,

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