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Companies Form Tank

Container Lessors Assoc.

A group of six companies recently agreed to form the International

Tank Container Lessors Associa- tion (ITCLA). The six companies — which hold a substantial share of the world's tank containers — are: Cronos; Ermewa; Eurotainer;

Stolt-Nielsen Leasing; Trans- america; and Trans Ocean. The first item of business was to adopt

Acceptable Container Conditions (ACC), which will enable compa- nies to agree on the conditions under which tank containers are transferred among lessees, lessors, depots and others.

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New Book Focuses On

Marine Technology

Computational Mechanics has made available a new book entitled

Marine Technology and Trans- portation. The book contains the papers presented at the first

International Conference on

Marine Technology (ODRA '95), which was held in Szczecin,

Poland, in September 1995.

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Zodiac Expands Line

Zodiac, a manufacturer of inflat- able boats and liferafts, expanded its line of U.S. Coast Guard- approved liferafts with the intro- duction of a new series of Inflat- able Buoyancy Apparatus (IBAs).

The new product is designed for use by inshore fishing boats and excursion vessels. The chief attrib- utes of the new product are the use of copolymer-coated fabrics and the unique techniques used in con- struction.

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New Alabama Yard Gets

USCG Business

Dohrman Machine Production of

West Point, Neb., has been award- ed a contract to design and build a series of 65-ft. (19.8-m) self-pro- pelled buoy tending barges for the

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). Accord- ing to Travis Short, president of

Dohrman, the buoy tenders will be built in Bayou LaBatre, Ala., at

Dohrman's recently acquired facili- ty. The Gulf Coast operation will be known as Owen-Short Marine, a division of Dohrman Machine Pro- duction, Inc. Overing Yacht Design of Ocean Springs, Md., was tapped to perform the design and provide working drawings for the project.

From 1987 to 1993, Dohrman

Machine Production manufactured modular cargo delivery systems for the U.S. Naval Sea Systems

Command, and recently delivered a series of powered mooring and towing hawser reels to Avondale

Industries for installation on the

USCG WAGB icebreakers. The

West Point facility will manufac- ture the shafting and steering sys- tems for the USCG self-propelled buoy tending barges.

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Stolt Comex Seaway

Awarded Contracts

Stolt Comex Seaway was award- ed its first-ever contracts in

Mexican waters. A contract from

Pemex, the Mexican state oil com- pany, commenced in early Decem- ber 1995, and involves hyperbaric repairs to an offshore installation

Circle 272 on Reader Service Card damaged by Hurricane Roxanne in

September. Seaway Pelican, Stolt

Comex's repair vessel, is commit- ted to a minimum of three months of work on this project. The other contracts for work in March 1996, have been awarded for Stolt

Comex's Seaway Condor to under- take umbilical installation work for Agip on the East Breaks

Development and for Mobil Yukon on the Green Canyon field.

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CATERPILLAR

MARINE PROPULSION

ENGINES RAN6IN6 FROM 8 S TO 8050 HHP.

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SETS RAN6IN6 FROM 8 5 TO 4840 EKW.

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