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MES Delivers Bulk Carrier Frontier Star;

Tanker North Star

Frontier Star, a 46,676-dwt bulk carrier built at the Tamano Works of Mitsui Engineering &

Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES), has been complet- ed and delivered to its owner Valpo Shipping SA.

Frontier Star is a medium-sized (handy-size) bulk carrier with five cargo holds and four cranes.

In addition, MES has also completed and deliv- ered 148,561-dwt tanker North Star, built at its

Chiba works. The vessel was delivered to owner

Astron Industries SA of Panama, and is the sev- enth MES-built double hull Suezmax class tanker.

The cargo oil space of North Star has a full dou- ble hull structure to prevent massive oil spills in the event of collision or stranding, satisfying

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North Star

IMO's MARPOL requirements.

The tank structure also meets the standards of OPA 90. North Star has 14 cargo oil tanks and 12 segre- gated ballast tanks partitioned by three longitudinal and six trans- verse bulkheads. The cargo oil tanks are equipped with heating coils, and the cargo handling system is designed to permit stowage of three different kinds of oil at the same time.

The segregated ballast tanks in the cargo oil space are equipped with an inerting system to prevent explosion of oil leaks, in addition to devices for detecting any gas in the tanks. They are also equipped with ventilators to let in fresh air during inspection of the tanks. A system to collect ashore oil gas generating from cargo oil tanks during their loading is provided to prevent air pollution. The vessel is equipped with a GMDSS and has reportedly acquired ABS' Safe Hull and OMBO notations.

Frontier Star

Station 12 Debuts New

Service

Station 12, a provider of satellite communications, has introduced the

Station 12 Call Back service. The new service is intended to make it easier, and in many cases cheaper, to call Inmarsat A, B and M satphones from a fixed telephone connection.

Automatic rerouting and abbreviat- ed codes enhance the ease of service; call charges are also, according to

Station 12, itemized more clearly.

Station 12 says the service will be particularly useful in countries where it is difficult or impossible to call a satphone directly. The Call

Back system first establishes the connection between Station 12's earth station and the caller, and then dials the caller. All the caller then has to do is dial the number of the satphone.

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