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Atlantic Dry Dock Wins $6 Million

Contract To Build Hvide Tug

Hvide Marine Inc. signed a contract with

Atlantic Dry Dock Corp. of Jacksonville to build a technologically advanced tractor tug designed for the safe escort of tankers and other large ships calling at Port Everglades, according to J.

Erik Hvide, chairman and CEO of Hvide Ma- rine. "The new tractor tug will be named the

Broward and will be a tug on the cutting edge of design," Mr. Hvide said. The $6 million tug will take seven months to build, and construction has already begun.

Designed by Elliott Bay Design Group of Se- attle, the Broward will be of all-steel construc- tion and measure 100 ft. (30.5 m) long with a 40- ft. (12.2-m) beam and a 14-ft. (4.3-m) depth, with a 19-ft. (5.8-m) operation draft.

The vessel will be powered by twin 2,550-hp electromotive diesel engines, each driving an omnidirectional propulsion unit with a four- blade propeller. The circular propeller nozzles will have the capability of turning 360 degrees, allowing the tug to pull at full power from any position. "The design was developed based on technology originally used in Europe and the Far

East, but rare in the U.S.," Mr. Hvide said. "The multidirectional pulling ability and maneuver- ability provides for maximum efficiency, stabil- ity and safety in operation."

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Broward Particulars

Owner Hvide Marine Inc.

Builder Atlantic Dry Dock Corp.

Designer Elliott Bay Design Group

Main engines EMD

Propulsion Aquamaster

Auxiliary power GM diesels

Auxiliary generators Marathon

Fire pump Nijhui

Deck machinery Markey

Astilleros Espanoles To Build Bulk

Carriers For Hong Kong Owner

We go to extraordinary lengths to build high quality RIBs you can count on for fast rescue, law enforcement, survey, diving, tour and tough work-place applications.

Astilleros Espanoles has signed a contract with the Hong Kong shipowner Supreme Pearl

Ltd. for the construction of a pair of capesize bulk carriers. Designated yard numbers 75 and 76, the 162,800-dwt vessels will be built at the company's Puerto Real yard. They are designed to be 948 ft. (289 m) by 141 ft. (43 m) by 78 ft. (24 m), and deliveries are scheduled for June 1996 and September 1996.

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KHI/AMD Hayabusa Completes Trials

The Hayabusa, a 328-ft. (100-m) Kawasaki

Heavy Industries (KHI) wave-piercing alumi- num catamaran — type Kawasaki Jet Piercer

AMD 1500 Mark II and based on a design li- censed from Advanced Multi-Hull Designs (AMD), Pymble, Australia — recently engaged in sea trials and achieved a speed of 35.5 knots.

Service speed for the Hayabusa will be 30 knots at 90 percent MCO.

The vessel was constructed by KHI for Mari- time Credit Corporation of Japan in Tokyo, and

Kyushi Ferry Boat Co. Ltd., Yawatahama, Ehime

Prefecture. It is KHI's first wave-piercing cata- maran.

The Hayabusa's propulsion consists of two

Caterpillar 3616 diesels producing 5,420 kW each and two Caterpillar 3612 diesels, which produce 4,060 kW each, linked to four Kawasaki

KPJ169A wateijets.

Hayabusa's maximum deadweight capacity i 570 tons; passenger capacity will be 460, and capacity will be 94. The vessel will fly t

Japanese flag.

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