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Bulk Carrier Ocean Duke

Completed

The Ocean Duke, a 71,741-dwt bulk carrier built by Hitachi Zosen

Corporation, was delivered to

Golden Helm Shipping Co., S.A. in

January.

The vessel was developed for pas- sage through the Panama Canal and can carry a variety of cargoes, including grain, ore and coal. Ocean

Duke is equipped with a Hitachi

Zosen MAN B&W 6S60MCE type diesel as the main engine, and fea- tures good fuel economy.

For more information on Hitachi Zosen

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Ocean Duke Specifications

Length 705.3 ft. (215 m)

Breadth 105.6 ft. (32.2 m)

Depth 61.02 ft. (18.6 m)

Summer load draft 44.12 ft. (13.45 m)

Deadweight 71,741 metric tons

Gross tons 38,137

Main engine HZ MAN B&W

Speed 16.01 knots

Classification NK

International Council On Combustion

Engines Preps For 21st Congress

The Swiss National Organiza- tional Committee for the Interna- tional Council on Combustion

Engines (CIMAC) is busily preparing for the organization's 21st con- gress, scheduled for

Interlaken, Switzerland from May 15 - 18.

The four-day CIMAC convention will feature more than 100 papers and the event will focus on four main subjects:

Opportunities and Constraints for the Industry; Technological Outlook;

Environmental Challenge; and In- teraction Between Users and In- dustry.

Aside from the paper pre- sentations — which will cover a wide range of topics from low-, medium-, and high-speed engines to gas engines and fuel injection — the meeting will include tech- nical visits to ABB Turbo Sys- tems Ltd., ABB Power Generation

Ltd. and New Sulzer Diesel Ltd.

There will also be a one-day work- shop on the topic of computational reacting fluid dynamics and laser diagnostics in internal combustion engine research, offered by the Labo- ratory for Internal Combustion En- gines and Combustion Technology of the Swiss Federal Institute.

For more information on the

CIMAC Congress, contact: Dr. J.

Mermod, general secretary CIMAC '95, Kirchweg 4, CH-8032, Zurich,

Switzerland, tel: +41 1 384 4844; fax: +41 1 384 4848.

Hynes Appointed To

Nafl Advisory Committee

Transportation

Secretary

Federico Pena appointed Jack

Hynes, of Jefferson

City, Mo., to a two year term on the

Towing Safety Ad- visory Committee.

The committee, sponsored by the

U.S. Coast Guard, provides advice to Department of Transportation staff on coastal and inland naviga- tion and towing safety. Mr. Hynes is presently the railroads and wa- terways administrator for the Mis- souri Highway and Transportation

Dept., where he directs the plan- ning and development of waterborne commerce in Missouri.

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