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FBM Places Repeat Order
For 10 Turbines
FBM Marine Ltd. has placed a repeat order with Solar Turbines
Incorporated for the manufacture of ten 5.2-MW (7,000-hp) Taurus 60M marine gas turbines. FBM
Marine will install pairs of Taurus 60M gas turbines for propulsion aboard five 147.5-ft. (45-m), 318- passenger, high-speed "TriCat"
Crowley Awards Newbuild
Contracts To Nichols Bros.
Crowley Marine Services has awarded Nichols Bros. Boat
Builders a contract to build a pair of 5,500-bhp tractor tugs. The new tugs are due to be completed and ready for service in approxi- mately one year. The tugs will be steel construction and each will be powered by a pair of Caterpillar 3606 diesel engines, and Voith
Schneider model 32 propulsion units. Direct bollard pull is antic- ipated to be in excess of 50 tons; indirect bollard pull in excess of 150 tons.
Hvide Marine Agrees To
Acquire OMI Ships
OMI Corp. announced that
Hvide Marine had agreed to acquire three of the company's
U.S.-flag chemical carriers, the
OMI Dynachem, the OMI Hudson and the OMI Star. Hvide will also acquire OMI's 50 percent interest in Ocean Specialty Tankers Corp., which commercially managers
Hvide's chemical tanker fleet and the vessels Hvide is acquiring.
The acquisition is pending
MarAd and Federal Trade
Commission approval, as well as the successful completion of
Hvide's initial public offering.
Engineering Consultancies
Merge
Babtie Oakervee Ltd. and Peter
Fraenkel BMT (Asia) Ltd., two established Hong Kong engineer- ing consultancies, have merged to form a new multi-disciplinary con- sultancy, Babtie BMT (Hong
Kong) Ltd. The alliance is part of a joint venture by the companies'
U.K.-based parent organizations —- Babtie Group Ltd. and British
Maritime Technology Ltd. (BMT) — and is intended to integrate and focus wide-ranging engineer- ing, technical, and scientific resources on infrastructure pro- jects within Hong Kong and the
People's Republic of China. The new company will provide mar- itime, civil, structural, highway, geotechnical and environmental consultancy services. Peter
French will serve as chairman of the new consultancy, and Ross
Barr and Henry Leung will serve as joint managing directors.
For more information on Babtie BMT ferry boats to be built for the oper- ator, CTS-Parkview Ferry Services of Hong Kong. The Taurus gas tur- bines will drive waterjets which propel the TriCat ferries at speeds of 50 knots.
The Taurus 60M plant is a two- shaft, variable-speed, marine gas turbine featuring: a 12-stage air compressor; single annular com- bustor; two-stage gas producer tur- bine; and two-stage power turbine, which is connected to the wateijet via a speed-reduction gearbox and has a maximum continuous output speed of 12,900 rpm.
Solar Turbines, a San Diego,
Calif, based subsidiary of Cater- pillar Inc., designs and manufac- tures gas turbines and turboma- chinery systems under quality management systems certified to
ISO 9001 standards.
High-speed TriCat ferryboat powered by twin Taurus 60M marine gas turbines.
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