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structural items at all of the assembly, thus contributing to a reduction or complete elimination of excess material; • offer significantly reduced welding by suitable selection from a greatly increased number of bevel options. For example, mini- mizing extra machining resulting from chamfers; • lead to extremely low rework levels because of the reliable, auto- mated process which reduces the possibilities of human error; • present the true cross-sections of joints; and • facilitate the output of appro- priate bevel notes and boring sketches from the nesting module.

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Circle 115 on Reader Service Card tership to Quadrant Express, which we took delivery of last year and which has performed extreme- ly well," said Mike Meehan, man- aging director of Griffin. The new- building order is of the B170-class, and will have a service speed of 19.7 knots. It will be self-sus- taining, with three 40-ton cranes.

Griffin will manage the ship from its Hong Kong office, and expects to place it on long term charter with a first class liner operator. "This will bring to four the number of Szczecin-built ships which we own," said Mr. Meehan. "The three we already operate have proven themselves commercially attractive to good charterers, and I am confident that this new vessel will substantially enhance our already growing earnings from containerships."

Mr. Meehan expects the overall cost of the vessel on delivery to be approximately $310 million, but the actual contract price is confi- dential. Financing will be through traditional bank finance, as well as the company's own resources.

Griffin holds an additional three options for similar vessels at

Szczecin for delivery in 1999.

Griffin Shipping Holdings owns and manages a fleet of multi-pur- pose vessels, mid-size container- ships and handy-size bulk carriers through Hong Kong-based Griffin

Shipping (Asia).

Intergraph Upgrades 3-D

Mechanical Design And

Drafting Software

Intergraph Corp. announced that

Solid Edge, the company's new 3-D mechanical design and drafting software, and Imagineer, a 2-D precision drawing program, have been added to the

NAVAIR/SPAWAR CAD-2 contract.

Solid Edge combines advanced parametric, feature-based, solid modeling tools with the Windows environment. Solid Edge incorpo- rates Object Linking and

Embedding for Design and

Modeling (OLE D&M) extensions that provide users with the famil- iar Windows cut-and-paste, drag- and-drop integration when using 3-D mechanical parts and assem- bly models. Imagineer Technical is a 2-D precision drawing tool that bridges the gap between complicat- ed CAD software and basic draw- ing packages. "Both products share the remark- able ease of use provided by lead- ing-edge Windows technologies, making them intuitive in practice and eliminating the need for com- plex, costly training," said Tom

Baybrook, vice president of mar- keting, Intergraph Federal

Systems.

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Griffin Orders New

Containership

Durban-based Griffin Shipping

Holdings has ordered a 1,728-TEU containership from Poland's

Szczecin yard. The 23,000-dwt vessel will be delivered in the sec- ond half of 1998. "This ship will fit neatly with our strategic focus on the super feeder sector of the con- tainership market. It will be a sis-

July, 1996

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