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Blount Industries has delivered the MAT Cayo

Norte to the Puerto Rico Ports Authority in San

Juan. The vessel, which was completed July 27, was scheduled to arrive in San Juan in early

August.

The 156-ft. (47.5-m) oceangoing ferry can ac- commodate eight full-size trailers. Its air-condi- tioned passenger space will seat 125, plus four disabled passengers on runs between Fajardo and the islands of Vieques and Culebra. The vessel also meets ADA compliance for the dis- abled. Cayo Norte is a slightly larger ship, but still similar to the 155-ft. (47.2-m) delivery WW

Santa Maria, completed in 1990.

Cayo Norte is fitted with Twin Disc gears and an Ellis four-blade propeller. She has a Furuno radar, an Icom radio and a Ritchie compass.

The vessel is the 291st vessel built at the

Blount Shipyard in Warren, R.I., and the 19th ferry built by Blount for the Puerto Rico Ports

Authority over a 40-year period.

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Industrias Verolme-Ishibras (IVI) of Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil — a recently formed merger of

Ishikawajima do Brasil-Estaleiros and Emaq-

Verolme, two established Brazilian shipbuild- ers — has several bulk carriers currently on order. One of the first vessels to be completed by the newly-merged company is the 70,000-dwt

Panamax bulk carrier MAf Brazilian Venture, now in service in Wah-Kwong. The 738-ft. (225- m) Brazilian Venture has been built to the requirements, and under the survey, of Bureau

Veritas (BV). Of conventional all-aft configura- tion with accommodation for a crew of 26, Bra- zilian Venture has seven cargo holds. The holds have a hopper profile with upper wing tanks port and starboard, and lower wing tanks port and starboard for water ballast. Double bottom tanks of varying dimensions are provided for water ballast in way of holds No. 1 and 2, and for fuel in the remaining holds. Propulsion is by a

Hyundai-Sulzer 6RTA62 direct-coupled diesel engine developing 11,000 hp at 79 rpm, and driving a Stone Manganese five-bladed, fixed- pitch propeller with a 24-ft. (7.3-m) diameter.

The vessel's service speed is 14 knots. Electrical power requirements of 450 V, 60 Hz, are met by three 440-kW diesel generator sets each com- prising a Daihatsu 6DL-20 diesel engine driving a Nishishiba NTAKL brushless alternator at 900 rpm.

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The NAVIGATOR • A High Precision DGPS System •

The Navigator is a precision navigation instrument with a 12 channel parallel processing receiver. With position accuracy of 1-3 meters, our detailed chart displays your movement directly on the screen.

THE NAVIGATOR is built to the following

MIL-SPEC specifications:

Water resistance & salt exposure;

MIL-T 28800c para 4.5 6.2 Vibration 1.5g 10-100 H Shock 5G peak. •Shows all depth markings & bottom contours. •Add / Delete Nav Aids. •WorldWide Vector Digitized Chart

Database. •Chart Update Program. •Voyage Recorder. •Automatic Beacon Selection. •Vessel Traffic Surveillance Capability. •Pole to pole data communications via satellite. •Portable Pilot Pack Version.

Electronic Marine Systems, Inc. 800 Ferndale Place • Rahway • New Jersey • 07065 •908-382-4344 -fax -908-388-5111

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