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Southwest Wins $34 M

Navy Repair Contract

The Navy has awarded South- west Marine Inc. (SWM) a five- year, phased maintenance contract for repair work on three LSD class ships. Work on the first vessel,

USS Anchorage (LSD-36), will begin in June. The entire contract goes through August 2001. The other two ships scheduled for work are USS Fort Fisher (LSD-40) and

USS Mount Vernon (LSD-39). The package includes advance plan- ning, repair and alterations on the hull and mechanical and electrical systems on each ship. "We've been concerned about the

Navy's recently announced plan for severe cuts in the ship repair bud- get, so this award was very good news to us. With the help of our

Congressmen, Duncan Hunter and Randy Cunningham, we were able to have millions of dol- lars restored to the Navy's repair budget in San Diego this fiscal year," said Herb Engle, SWM president. All work will be per- formed at SWM's San Diego facili- ty, the company's headquarters.

Additional shipyards are located in

San Pedro, American Samoa and

Ingleside, Texas. , T^^J^L To be held at Lubeck Congress

L V jTO & Exhibition Centre, Germany

Conference Programme on 21-22-23 May 1996 10.30 DAY ONE-Tuesday May 21

OPENING ADDRESS: Matthias Wissmann, Minister of

Transport, Federal Republic of Germany

KEYNOTE PAPER: The role of Ports in the Trans-European network with emphasis on the Baltic region — the

European Commission's View jtirgen Erdmenger,

Director, Directorate-General for Transport of the European

Commission, Brussels

WHAT DOES SPEED MEAN TO THE RORO

INDUSTRY?-Session 1

Fast or conventional - the economics ArnulfHader, Senior

Researcher, Institute for Shipping Economics and Logistics,

Bremen

Fast at Sea - Fast in Port but RoRo or LoLo? Kai Levander,

Senior Vice President, Kvaerner Masa-Yards, Technology,

Finland

A 40-knot wave piercing freighter for RoRo or LoLo transport Philip Hercus, Executive Chairman, Incat

Designs, Sydney

Two fast newbuildings for Fred Olsen permitting a higher sailing frequency on their Norway - UK

Continent services Tor Erik Andreassen, Vice President -

Roy Beswick, Vice President Technical, Fred Olsen & Co,

Oslo

NEW SHIP TYPES AND SERVICES - Session 2

Deepsea RoRo now and for the Future Sverre Svenning,

Project Manager, Barber Ship Management AS, Norway

Anew generation of multi-purpose car carriers capable of accommodating 700 TEU's or 3350 lane metres are under construction for Grimaldi Angelo Cumin, Project

Leader, Fincantieri, Trieste - Antonio Barbaro, Technical

Manager, Grimaldi Group, Italy

RoRo systems to improve the logistics of steel transportation Evert Wijkander, Logistics Director, A vesta

Sheffield AB, Stockholm

Four levels of freight decks - two for trucks and two for rail wagons plus 600 passengers make a monster RoRo for the Hansa route Bo Severed, Managing Director,

SweFerry, Helsingborg

Panellist Erik Ostergdrd, Manager, Business Development and Planning, DSB Ferries Ltd, Copenhagen

NEW THINKING FOR RORO TRANSPORT

AND HANDLING - Session 3

The real problem in RoRo transport is the lack of cargo securing inside the trailer Marten Carlcjuist, Operations

Director, Tor Line AB, Gothenburg

CPT - Container Pallet Transfer - an automatic, high capacity ship/shore RoRo system Bjorn Hansen,

Managing Director, TTS Drebak AS, Norway

A new concept for RoRo transport Sven-Olof Berntsson,

President, Ancra ABT AB, Sweden

THE FUTURE RORO UNIT? - Session 4

From Road to Sea - The seaworthy Swap Body Ulrich

Cramer, Managing Director, CONTEC, Germany

What do we need for rational Door-to-Door Transport?

Paper to be confirmed, Norsk Hydro, Oslo

Panellist Horst Hebeler, Technical Director, EUROKA1,

Hamburg

STARTING A NEW RORO SERVICE OR

ROUTE - THE PRACTICAL AND LEGAL

ASPECTS - Session 5

The practicalities and tribulations of starting a RoRo service from scratch Colin Crawford, former General

Manager ofMannin Line, Great Yarmouth, UK

EU Competition Law raises serious issues for RoRo operators Trevor Soames, Partner, Norton Rose, Brussels 18.30 RORO 96 WELCOME RECEPTION HOSTED BY THE

HANSEATIC CITY OF LUBECK IN THE RATHAUS 09.00 DAY TWO - Wednesday May 22

RORO SHIP SURVIVABILITY - Session 6

The new survivability requirements for RoRo passenger vessels from the 1995 SOLAS conference - including regional agreements made up to May 1996 Tom Allan,

Chief Surveyor, Marine Safety Agency, UK (Member of 1MO Panel of Experts)

Safety initiatives from SNAME Ad Hoc RoRo Safety

Panel Bruce Hutchison, Panel Chairman, The Glosten

Associates Inc, USA - Patrick Little, Lieutenant, US Coast

Guard - Robert Tagg, Vice President, Herbert Engineering,

USA - David Molyneux, Senior Research Officer, Institute for Marine Dynamics, Canada - Peter Noble, Vice President,

ABS Americas, USA

Meeting the new SOLAS regulations for RoRo ships without the need for transverse bulkheads on the vehicle decks Ian Winkle, Department of Naval

Architecture and Ocean Engineering, University of Glasgow

Survivability tests with a damaged RoRo passenger vessels according to the new IMO - regulations and further activities planned by CONFITARMA & HSVA

R Marsano, Compagnia Sarda di Navigazione, Genoa -

M Nattero, Studio Associato di Ing. Navale, Genoa -

P Blume, Hamburg Ship Model Basin, Hamburg

Cost Effective Solutions to enhance RoRo survivability - practical developments of SOLAS 90 Dracos Vassalos and

Osman Turan, Ship & Marine Technology Department,

Strathclyde University, Scotland - RolfKjaer, Technical

Director, Color Line, Norway

New Stability Standards for New Ships - The Way Ahead

Tor E Svensen, Project Leader - Joint North West European

Project, Del Norske Veritas, Norway

FOREST PRODUCTS TRANSPORT BY RORO -

Session 7

A new series of 20-knot newbuildings designed for multiple handling methods including StoRo, RoRo and

LoLo containers on the upper deck Torsten Grandell,

Technical Manager, Transfennica Ltd, Helsinki

Computerised cargo planning for forest product distribution Peter Andersson, Naval Architect, MariTerm

AB, Helsingborg

Lashing covers for RoRo paper cargoes have replaced traditional cargo securing lashings Johan Wik, Wisapak

Oy Ab, Finland

Ro-Ro Cassette development Ulrich Cramer, Managing

Director, CONTEC, Germany

RORO PORT DEVELOPMENT - Session 8

Fixed link competition can stimulate short-sea ferry port development John Gerrard, Services General Manager,

Dover Harbour Board, UK

The Ports of Lubeck - their role within Europe

Hans-Gerd Gielefien, Managing Director, Liibecker Hafen-

Gesellschaft mbH, Germany

CAR DISTRIBUTION AND HANDLING -

Session 9

Sailing with the Market Kjell-Ake Andersson, Manager-

Group Coordination & Contracting, Volvo Transport

Corporation, Gothenburg

A middle-sized Port has become a main player for the automotive industry - 550 000 new cars p.a. together with 850 000 trucks and 195 000 RoRo TEU's Luc Maertens,

Assistant Manager, Economic Study Department, Bruges-

Zeebrugge Port Authority

Logistical Strategies for securing the customer's commitment Dietrich Hupke, Managing Director

Automobile Division, BLG Bremen/Bremerhaven

The influence of changing patterns in car distribution on port terminals Paul Plomteux, Commercial Department,

Car and RoRo, Hessenatie NV, Antwerp

ON VIEW: THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN

RORO HANDLING AND SHIP DESIGN -

Session 10 (outside visit)

At Skandinavienkai/Travemiinde delegates will see

TT's new "green" RoPax "Robin Hood" with its unique arrangement of 2400 lane metres permitting full utilisation of tanktop, maindeck and upperdeck for fast handling. Skandinavienkai has seven more RoRo berths for inspection, with 400 000m2 of trailer and vehicle parking and transshipment by rail and road.

Three of the berths are devoted rail terminals - including one for the world's largest rail ferry. The passenger access facilities for "Finnjet" will be seen.

Then to Nordlandkai terminal which has four RoRo berths, one being the new twin level ramp serving the world's largest combi - RoRo "FinnPartner". It has 3200 lane metres handling roll trailers and roll cassettes.

Delegates will be able to study at first hand the most advanced RoRo cassette handling of paper products and their storage and warehousing, together with general and unitised cargo. 1930 - RORO 96 GALA EVENING RECEPTION 09.30 DAY THREE - Thursday May 23

RORO SHIP DESIGN FEATURES - Session 11

Bow loads on RoRo ships Jan Lundgren, Project Manager,

SSPA Maritime Consulting AB, Gothenburg

RoRo ship bow door design: first principle analysis of wave loads and strength Carsten Ostergaard, Head of

Basic Research Department - Helge Rathje, Hydrodynamics & Structural Mechanics - Pierre Sames, Hydrodynamics &

Numerical Methods, Germanischer Lloyd, Hamburg

New solutions for improved gas turbine efficiency

David Nordlander, Sales Manager, ABB Stal, Sweden

Fire Safety: active cooling versus passive insulation

Otto M Weiler, Naval Architect, Mardoc BV- Jan ter Haar,

Salvage Inspector, Smit Tak BV - Jos Lems, Marketing

Manager, Pyro Cool Safety Products BV

Increased safety and payload achieved by in-service stability measurement Horst Halden, Managing Director,

Inter ing GmbH, Germany

TERMINAL DESIGN AND PORT PLANNING

FOR RORO - Session 12

Combined RoPax terminals - recent experience and recommendations Richard Marks, Associate, Posford

Duvivier, UK

Port planning with particular reference to the RoRo mode in the Baltic trades Rainer Ebert, Harbour Planning Engineer -

FalkOhlig, Marketing Manager, Liibecker HafenGmbH, Germany

The new large fast ferries have made new demands on linkspan design - can they be met? John Rose, Managing

Director, Marine Development, Scotland

Transition of a newsprint receiving facility into a premier roll-on/roll-off handling facility Nigel Nixon,

Chairman, Nigel Nixon & Partners, UK "GREEN" RORO SHIPS - Session 13

SINOx - Catalysts on TT-Line RoRo for a more economical and cleaner mode of operation Frank Witzel,

Manager Research & Development - Raimund Miiller,

Manager Engineering - Wieland Mathes, Manager SINOx -

Systems and Plants - Jurgen Zurbig, Deputy Director and

Head of Catalytic Systems, Siemens AG, Germany

Reducing Emissions from RoRo ship propulsion machinery Wolfram Lausch, VP Marketing, Medium-Speed

Engines Department, MAN B&W Diesel AG, Augsburg

RORO AND THE ISM CODE - Session 14

Emergency Preparedness for RoRo Ships Martin

Brooking, Head of Emergency Technology Group, Lloyd's

Register of Shipping, London

RoRo Safety with special reference to the new Chapter

IX of SOLAS '74' 90 Gianni Faraguna, Head of Safety

Department, Adriatica di Navigazione, Venice

Operational Legislation, Safety Management and the

ISM Code Speaker to be advised: ABS Europe, London

The Legal consequences for owners and operators of the introduction of the ISM Code Roger Heward, Partner,

Norton Rose, London 13.00 Conference ends 16.00 Exhibition closes

For the full conference programme and registration details, please fax or phone:

RoRo Secretariat, 2 Station Road, Rickmansworth, Herts, WD3 1QP, UK Tel: +44 1923 776363 Fax: +44 1923 777206

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Merwede Awards Contract

To Schelde

Schelde Shipbuilding in Vlis- singen, the Netherlands, has re- ceived a contract from Merwede

Shipyard to build the final vessel in a series of three containerships which Merwede contracted to build for Mammoet Shipping Company.

The vessel is to be delivered on

December 1, 1997.

Schelde is the shipbuilding com- pany within the maritime group of companies of Royal Schelde, which is undergoing a strategic restruc- turing aimed at providing a secure future for the company as a whole.

Investments in new facilities at

Schelde-Oost have reportedly increased its building capabilities and broadened the market in which Schelde Shipbuilding is interested.

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Particulars

Length o.a. 452.7 ft. (138 m) 75 ft. (22.8 m)

Draft 31.2 ft. (9.5 m)

DWT 15 700

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USCG Awards Bollinger

Contract For First Coastal

Patrol Boats

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has awarded an $8.9 million con- tract to Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. of

Lockport, La., to design and con- struct an 87-ft. (26.5-m) coastal patrol boat. The initial contract award includes the design and con- struction of a lead ship with options for up to 50 additional cut- ters. According to the shipyard, the contract will create approxi- mately 100 new jobs. Bollinger constructed forty-nine 110-ft. (33.5-m) Island class cutters between October 1984 and March 1992.

The new coastal patrol boat will be the first of an expected 31 to 51 cutters, and will be named Condor.

This marks the construction of a new cutter class to replace the 82- ft. (25-m) Point class cutters cur- rently in service.

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USCG Targets Repeat

Offenders Under Foreign

Shipboarding Program

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has released its 1996 list of target-

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