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HEAVY

DUTY SHEAVES & BLOCKS DNAV-212 The GPS Receiver for Professionals.

THE RECEIVER

The Starlink DNAV-212 is a self-initializing 12 channel

GPS receiver and an auto- matic 2 channel beacon receiver, providing real-time position, ground speed, course, and time measure- ment data.

The waterproof DNAV-212 is designed for rugged pro- fessional use. The receiver has multiple interface ports and interfaces easily with any software package or system capable of accepting standard

GPS data input.

THE SOFTWARE

The software provides GIS data collection, BDH1, GPS and beacon control, position plot- ting, diagnostics, waypoint, and configuration capability.

APPLICATIONS • GIS Data Collection

Works with most data collection packages • Agricultural

Soil sampling, application, yield monitoring, mapping • Professional Marine

Pilot systems, ECD1S, charting, radar • Hydrographic Survey

Coastal Oceanographies'

Hypac™ systems 7ARUNK

Starlink Incorporated • 6400 Highway 290 East • Suite 202 • Austin, Texas 78723

Phone:(512)454-5511 • Fax:(512)454-5570 • Toll Free: (800) 460-2167

E-mail: dfowlei®starlinkdgps.com • WWW: http://www.realtime.com-dfowler/

SHIP-REPAIR, SHIP-BUILDING, MARINE EQUIPMENTS

Jeamar Winches Inc. 1051 Clinton Street, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A. 14206

TEL: (716) 854-3211 FAX: (716) 854-4141

Weeks Marine Helps Army In Artificial Reef Exercise 3,500 kw Z-drive Tug

LMIEC • Unique Steel Sheaves with Bearings • Wide selection - Fast Delivery equipment was loaded aboard both the Weeks 246, a 250-ft. by 73-ft. (76.2-m by 22.3-m) ABS-certified loadline deck barge, and the Weeks 291, a newly constructed 180-ft. by I 54-ft. (54.9-m by 16.5-m) ABS-certi- fied loadline deck barge. Once loaded, the barges were moved to their drop sites by the Weeks tugs Robert and

Alexandra. At the drop sites, Weeks

Marine used heavy front-end load- ers to remove the equipment from the barges.

LIAONING LIMENG (GROUP) CO., LTD.

LIAONING MACHINERY IMPORT & EXPORT CORP.

No.3, Minzhu Square, Dalian, China

Telex: 86157 DCMC CN Fax: 0086-411-2637195

Liaison: Song Jun

Weeks Marine, Inc. participated in a joint task force sponsored by the

U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) in the submersion of over one hun- dred obsolete U.S. Army tanks and other tracked vehicles off the coast- lines of New York, New Jersey, Dela- ware and Maryland, to become part of the artificial reef systems of those states.

The military equipment was placed in specified locations with

Loran coordinates chosen by the respective states. The equipment,

The Program

Reef Exercise (Reefex) is a joint

Department of Defense (DOD) pro- gram in which obsolete combat ar- mament such as M-60 and M-48 tanks and M-l 13 armored personnel carri- ers are submerged in coastal waters as artificial reefs, attracting sea life and increasing commercial and rec- reational fishing opportunities —1 while subtracting from the estimated, 20,000 excess pieces of Vietnam-era equipment in storage in the U.S.

Reserve Component personnel —

Army Reserve, Army National

Guard, Navy, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Air Force Reserves — gain valuable experiences demilita- rizing equipment, cleaning it to meet national environmental standards.

The Army Materiel Command (AMC), the Army's executive agent for Reefex, owns the tanks and other vehicles. AMC's Tank-automotive and Armaments Command works with the Defense Logistics Agency's

Defense Reutilization and Market- ing Service, and the General Ser-" vices Administration, to release ob- solete/excess equipment to states' for their artificial reef programs.

Before the vehicles can be used to construct reefs, Reserve Component soldiers and sailors performing their two weeks of annual active duty training drain all fluids and remove components such as engines, trans- missions and hydraulic systems. A national environmental assessment plan was developed and approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA), U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers (USACE), the USCG and the receiving states. All main battle tanks and combat vehicles are in- spected by the state EPA represen- tatives, the USCG and ASACE prior to movement to reef sites. Sites are selected by the coastal state and approved by the USACE. Once in place, ownership and responsibility for the reefs transfers to the states.

Reefex is funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (Civil-Military

Cooperation Program) and partici- pating commands with additional cost-sharing from the recipient states.

Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

Our corporation is engaged in export of various ships, diesel engines, marine equipments, etc.

It has built many oil tankers and freighters for the ship- ping companies for SweJen,

Norway, America, etc., using modern advanced technol- ogy in ship designing and building.

It is also handling export of big power marine diesel en- gines with cylinder bore 50,60,70,80,90 cm of MC/

MCE series-one of the most advanced low-speed and big power diesel engines in the world, adopting design con- cept and technique of ad- vanced marine main engine.

It also undertakes building various fishing boats, life- boats, petroleum drilling plat- forms, ship projects, anchor, anchor chains, marine valves, marine equipments, spare parts, etc. which had been stored at Fort Dix,

N.J., was demilitarized and thor- oughly cleaned before being trucked to Naval Weapons Station Earle main base for transshipment via rail to

NWS Earle Port facility.

On arrival at the port facility, the

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Fully-enclosed Life-boat 115,000 dwt Shuttle Oil Tanker