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Safety/Claims Seminar

Planned For September

The American Club has sched- uled its annual Safety/Claims

Seminar to be held at the Grand

Bay Hotel in Coconut Grove, Fla., on September 11. Experts will address a broad range of topics, including oil spills and cleanup costs, investigating maritime per- sonal injury claims, criminal liabil- ity in maritime accidents, environ- mental damage calculations, and the benefits of arbitration/mitiga- tion in lieu of litigation. Among those speaking will be representa- tives from NOAA, the

International Tankers Owners

Pollution Federation Limited (ITOPF), and the National

Pollutions Funds Center. Contact

Don Moore at tel: (212) 908-2411.

Caterpillar Seeks to Acquire

Krupp Engine Business

Caterpillar Inc. signed a memo- randum of understanding with

Fried. Krupp AG, whereby

Caterpillar would acquire the shares of Krupp's German-based diesel engine subsidiary, MaK

Maschinenbau GmbH. The acqui-

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Circle 31 on Reader Service Card sition is reportedly subject to

Caterpillar's completion of due diligence, and to final approval by the companies' boards and appro- priate regulators. A final agree- ment between the two parties is expected to be reached in the third quarter. "MaK's product line rep- resents the state-of-the-art in large diesel engines, and would be a nat- ural extension of the upper end of

Caterpillar's diesel engine line," said Donald G. Western,

Caterpillar vice president with responsibility for the Engine

Division. He said that Caterpillar would retain the MaK brand name and operate the company as a dis- tinct unit in association with its engine business.

NYK Orders MAN B&W

Engines For Containerships

Three 5,750-TEU containerships ordered by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) of Japan will be powered by

MAN B&W Diesel's 12K90MC low speed engines. Two vessels will be built by Mitsubishi Heavy

Industries (MHI), and Mitsui

Engineering and Shipbuilding (MES) will build the third vessel, as well as the three engines.

MAN B&W claims that this order underlines the popularity of large bore MC designs for containership propulsion, extending the refer- ence list for 80MC or 90MC sales in this market to 208 engines.

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