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Port of Goteborg Invests In Post-Panamcw Capacity To

Sustain Deep-Sea Role

The board of the Port of Goteborg

AB, Sweden, has decided to adapt the Port's container facility, the

This illustration shows a comparison between a container crane/container vessel of standard dimensions (in black) and crane/vessel of post-panamax dimensions.

Skandia Harbor, to the demands of post-panamax vessels. The Port is demonstrating its determination to keep and develop its role as the direct deepsea port for

Scandinavian trade and industry.

The adaptation, which will cost approximately $23 million, includes the pur- chase of two new post-pana- max cranes, dredging, an erosion protection wall along a 1,312.3-ft. (400-m) stretch of quay, and two new straddle carriers, in addition to the 21 already in use at the terminal.

Deepsea container vessels are now increasingly being built larger than the Panama Canal locks can handle — so-called post- panamax vessels.

Approximately 80 such vessels now either exist or are in order- books. Maersk Line, one of the deepsea shipping lines making direct calls at Goteborg, already calls at the port with its post-pana- max vessels.

The investments at Skandia

Harbor will include two new con- tainer cranes with 159.1-ft. (48.5- m) outreach, with crane arms to be set higher to be able to handle a post-panamax vessel with a full deck load.

The Goteborg investment in post-

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The entire investment package is expected to be operational by 1998.

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A revolutionary closed propor- tional hydraulic system that runs both a roll fin stabilizer and bowthruster has been introduced by Wesmar Marine Electronics.

The advantages of the single hydraulic system include extended operating capacity and cost effec- tiveness. A yacht owner can reportedly save thousands of dol- lars on bowthruster and stabilizer packages by relying on a single operational system rather than using two separate hydraulic pack- ages — one for the thruster, one for the stabilizer. Wesmar's first 750- psi hydraulic system, designed for both the thruster and stabilizer, was recently installed by Mark

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Connecticut Analytical Corp., a manufacturer and distributor of gas detection equipment and prod- ucts, has announced the newest addition to its line of products, a helium leak detector. The Varian

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