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Austal Delivers Third Auto

Express To Europe

Austal Ships' most recent Auto

Express 82 completion, in associa- tion with Ferries Australia, is set to debut for Swedish and Danish part- ners Sweferry and DSO. The vessel, dubbed Felix, is the third such cata- maran delivery to Europe this year.

The ship's quadruple diesel/water- jet/gearbox propulsion system com- prises four MTU 20V 1163 TP73 diesel engines, each developing 6,000 kW, driving four KaMeWa 112

Sll waterjets through four Reintjes

VLJ 4431 gearboxes. The electron- ics package includes fully integrat- ed Kelvin Hughes navigational equipment with twin ARPA radars and MRD electronic chart naviga- tion. Satellite telephone and ship communications is provided by

Satcom M and GMDSS equipment.

Provisions have been made to install Austal's Ocean Leveller sys- tem in the future, if ride control is deemed necessary. Manually oper- ated stern flaps were fitted for trim optimization.

The 270 x 75.4-ft. (82.3 x 23-m) ship achieved a maximum speed of 41.5 knots during performance tri- als. Felix, with capacity for 676 pas- sengers and 156 cars, is scheduled to begin operating on the Limhamn-

Dragor route between Sweden and

Denmark on December 1. The ves- sel was built to Germanischer Lloyd +100A5, HSC-B, OC3, Passenger

RoRo. Felix is registered to the Port of Malmo, and is the second fast ferry worldwide to fly the Swedish flag.

Schuyler Wins Crowley

Contract

Schuyler Rubber Co., Inc. of

Woodinville, Wash., has been awarded a contract to provide tend- ering for two Crowley Marine

Services' new 120-ft. (36.5-m),

Voith-driven tractor tugs. The com- pany's new Model SR3D type rubber will be used in the critical contact areas. The SR3D reportedly has the highest deflection and energy absorption rate as compared with conventional fendering designs. "This is our fifteenth award to pro- vide SR3D fendering for a new con- struction tug this year. We have also expanded applications to docks, piers and offshore facilities," said

Schuyler Acting President Dennis

Kerber.

For more information on Schuyler Rubber

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Merewido Participates In

Vessel Overhaul

Merewido Holland BV, a special- ist in the development and instal- lation of pneumatic transport sys- tems, was recently involved in the overhaul of cement carrier

Fortune R.

Sea Trading SRL was commis- sioned by the vessel's new owner to carry out a comprehensive over- haul after the ship was recovered from a partially submerged state in an Italian port, where it had floundered for a considerable time.

According to Warner Boer, deputy technical manager at

Merewido, "On inspection, the ship proved to lack vital electronic components. Merewido had to rewrite the entire pneumatic oper- ation program in the Netherlands.

The original program was miss- ing.

Other vital components of the ship's unloading installation were also missing or out of order."

The ship is now fully opera- tional, transporting cement between Seville, Spain, and

Nouakchott, Mauritania.

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