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Fincantieri Lands $600M Holland America Dual Ship Order

Carnival Corporation announced that it had reached an agreement with Fincantieri Cantieri Navali

Italiani, S.p.A. for the construc- tion of two cruise ships for its

Holland America Line (HAL) sub- sidiary at a combined cost of approximately $600 million. Both ships are expected for delivery in 1999, one early and the other late in the year. Estimated at 65,000 gt with a capacity of 1,440 passen- gers, the two new vessels will reportedly be 20 percent larger than HAL's Statendam class ships, which have been introduced over the last three years. With a maximum speed of 23 knots, the vessels will have higher than average speed but will be slower than the 25-knot of Rotterdam VI, currently under construction at

Fincantieri. Kirk Lanterman,

HAL's president and CEO pointed out that the two newest ships rep- resent a new generation for

Holland America and are not a continuation of the Rotterdam class vessel. These two newest ships will operate on a variety of

Holland America's popular itiner- aries including Alaska, Europe,

Caribbean and Panama Canal voyages. "The company is extremely pleased with Holland

America Line's performance. It has undergone tremendous growth since our acquisition in 1989," said

Micky Arison, chairman and CEO of Carnival Corporation.

Reinauer Deploys Ground

Guard Technology

Reinauer Transportation will install an advanced positioning and vessel grounding prevention system and optional black box radar target and voice recorder manufactured by

Electronic Marine Systems of

Rahway, N.J. This technology places an "extra watchstander on board," which alerts navigators to charted rocks, historical grounding sites and depths lower than those preset by the captain. This technol- ogy was originally developed for the tanker trade operating in Valdez,

Ark.

Mid-Coast Marine To Build

Freezer Longliner

Jensen Maritime Consultants, Inc. (JMC) has completed the design for a new generation 59 x 24-ft. (18 x 7.3 m) freezer longliner. The

Seattle-based naval architecture firm has designed the new vessel for

Jim and Rhonda Hubbard of

Seward, Alaska. Mid-Coast Marine

Oregon will build the vessel at the company's Coos Bay, Ore., shipyard.

Construction began in June, and delivery is scheduled for January 1997.

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NETEC Involved In Barge

Project

NETEC, Inc. (formerly known as

New England Trawler Equipment

Company) is involved in a project for Lafarge Cement Corporation's new barge Integrity. For this pro- ject, NETEC developed a constant tension mooring winch which is reportedly capable of maintain- ing the barge's dockside position as part of a highly automated, self-trimming, self- loading/unloading barge. Other projects include a series of nine diesel-hydraulic winches for

MarAd; diesel and hydraulic tow- ing and escort winches for

Kinsman Condor, Kinsman Eagle and Kinsman Venture, all owned by Hvide Marine; and windlasses, capstans, power units and moor- ing winches for barges owned by

Bouchard Transportation Co.,

Moran Transportation Co. and

Allied Towing Company.

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Manufacturers, please see the

MR/EN Deck Machinery & Cargo

Handling Equipment review, which starts on page 38.