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New CaterpHJarEngine Tops 7,000 kW

Caterpillar's Engine Division has developed the CAT 3618, a hie power-to-weight ratio, 18-cylujfaer design with a fast commercial ves- sel application rating of^200 kW at 1,050 rpm. The nem engine is the product of a cooperative effort between Caterpillar Inc. and vanish diesel engine builder

Bazan Motores. The QAT 3618 is designed specifically fo\the fast marine transport indust^. Its 7,200-kW fast commercial ves rating is application specific, based on a realistic fast ferry load profile of 85 percent of operating hours at rate power, with 15 pgj»e£rit of hours maneuvering^Hess than 50 percentratedno^er. The 3618 will use the^B£fTPL65 E, a new, high lency, single-stage turbocharg- er design. The new crankshaft is counterweighted for optimum bal- ance of rotary mass, and new

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Dockwise Adc

Vessels To Fli

Swan Class

Dockwise NfV. has announced the addition of four Swan class vessels — Swan, Swift, Teal and Tern — to its fleet. Th\ addition to the

Dockwise fleet^ias reportedly resulted in greater scheduling flex- ibility and reduced xiobilization time and cost.

The Swan class of vesselY similar in concept to the Super anl Mighty

Servant class, have dulil cargo capacity and can carry Weavy lifts up to 25,000 tons on deck or up to 32,000 cu.-m. of cl/m product cargo in their cargp tanks. The vessels also have/i sophisticated ballasting system with more than 50 tanks — 12yof which are cargo tanks — and^wo additional slop tanks.

Norex Industries Listed On

Oslo Stock exchange

An offshore and shining invest- ment company — Norex n^dustries

Inc. — was approved for secondary listing of its common sharespn the

Oslo Stock Exchange's mairylist.

Norex Industries (forme* Norex

America) is an investment compa- ny with holdings in ojf and gas industries, and the offshore and shipping sectors. /Investments include holdings w the Oslo listed companies Djrc Sondenfjelds-

Norske iLimpskibsselskab,

Transocean Ofi^hore and

Norwegian Cruise Line>

The move by Norex Industries represents the first OSE hating of an investment company specializ- ing in the offshore and pipping sector.

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