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DECK MACHINERY & CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT REVIEW

Owen Short Marine for installa- tion onboard U.S. Coast Guard self-propelled buoy tenders.

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Thern Inc.

Thern Inc., a manufacturer of industrial quality winches, hoists and cranes, offers a product line which includes spur and worm gear hand winches with capabili- ties up to 5 tons; electric, pneumat- ic and hydraulic powered winches with capacities up to 25 tons; and deck mounted davit cranes with capacities up to 2,200 lbs. Thern has redesigned its entire line of power winches, introducing more than 100 new standard production models.

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J.D. Neuhaus Hebezeuge

GmbH & Co.

J.D. Neuhaus Hebezeug GmbH &

Co. (JDN) specializes in all types of lifting equipment. All JDN crane systems are equipped with tested technology and are tailored to fit individual space requirements and to lift and transport heavy loads.

The drive medium is either com- pressed air, hydraulic fluid or elec- tric current. JDN crane systems are alternatively equipped with rope or chain hoists in trolleys.

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Timberland Equipment

Limited

Timberland designs and manu- factures a variety of winches including anchor, mooring and towing winches. Winches are available with diesel, electric or hydraulic drives. New product introductions for 1996 include a double drum anchor/towing winch with 200,000 lb. line pull and rope capacity to suit customer require- ments. Power units can also be supplied to meet speed perfor- mance requirements.

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Fetterolf Corporation

Fetterolf Corporation manufac- tures line blinds for marine ser- vices, including for ocean-going product carriers and tankers, as well as oil and chemical barges.

These blinds are used to isolate holds, preventing cross-contamina- tion and assuring there is no leak- age from the holds.

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McElroy and BP Join Forces

McElroy Machine and BP oil have teamed up to build mooring winches for two of BP's oil tankers which will tranport oil from Alaska to Japan. The winches are of a self-contained electro hydraulic deisgn. The 125-hp water/explo- sion proof units reportedly develop 60,000 lb. of line pull at 40 fpm and haul in light line at 110 fbm. Split drums hold 1,000 ft. (304.8 m) of 1.75 in. wire rope with 900 ft. (244.3 m) on the storage side and and 100 ft. on the working section, and are fitted with brakes rated at 192,000 lb. The McElroy model

DMMW556-125 winch in complet- ed by a single 27-in. CAT head.

ABS reportedly witnessed the rig- orous testing at the facotry test facilties.

Cargo Pumps Receive

Japanese Contract

Svaneh0j International, a Danish electric drive deepwell cargo pump supplier, has reportedly received

Japanese recognition in an order from Daiichi Tankers. The con- tract is for deepwell cargo pumps for use in Star Phenix, a 3,000-sq.- m. LEG carrier built for ISC ship- yard in Japan, as well as for an 11,000-dwt molten sulfur carrier which has been built at Shin

Kurushima Dockyard Co. Ltd. in

Taihei, Hiroshima Prefecture.

Daiichi Tankers is also using

Svanehoj pumps on a 6,450-sq.-m.

LEG carrier being built at Korea's

Hyundai Heavy Industries.

SHANGHAI MACHINERY IMP. & EXP. (GROUP) CORP., LTD.

SHIPS COMPANY

General Agent for Shipyards in the Shanghai Area.

All kinds of Shiprepairs-

Conversions etc. can be undertaken.

Drydocks up,to about 150.000 DWT available.

The flexibility is great as there are many shipyards in the area.

Contact us for further information.

Representative In the U. S. A.:

WHEELER ASSOCIATES 60 Sutton Place South

New York, NY 10022^)168 (212) 371-9590 fax 9661 & 4544 email: wheeler@imex. com http: //www. imex. com/wheeler/wheeler. html

Head office:

SMIEC Mansion. 445 jiangning Road,

Shanghai 200041, China

Tel: +86-21-62711558

Telex: 33066 SHCMC CN

Fax: +86-21-62150530, 62153544

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