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Information System (AIS) transponders and communications network to transmit their position, identity and other vessel informa- tion. Information from the real time ITOS database will be provid- ed by the Puget Sound Marine

Exchange to the U.S. and

Canadian Coast Guard Vessel

Traffic Centers. The first ITOS tugs were equipped with the MCC

AIS in October, and the entire net- work is expected to be fully opera- tional by the end of the year.

Moran Continues Tug

Conversion Program

Moran Towing Corp. has complet- ed its third MORTRAC conversion.

The Drum Point, like the previous- ly converted tugs Sewells Point and Harriet Moran, is now equipped with a forward-mounted, fully-retr actable, 360-degree azimuthing thruster, in addition to the tug's conventional single screw propulsion system. Drum Point now has 3,005 hp and is equipped with a remodeled pilothouse with unobstructed 360 degree visibility and a very low profile. Moran has also dispatched Drum Point's sis- ter tug, Town Point, to Norfolk

Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp.'s

Berkley Yard to undergo the same conversion, which is expected to be completed in December.

Construction Of EBDG

Project Underway passenger vessels under 46 CFR

Subchapter H and will be classed with the American Bureau of

Shipping as a passenger vessel under 298.5 ft. (91 m). It will mea- sure approximately 237 ft. (72.2 m) long with a beam of 95 ft. (29 m) and a depth to the main deck of 46 ft. (13.7 m) In addition to 1,200 passengers, the vessel will carry a crew of 150. Propulsion will be provided by AC/DC silicon-con- trolled rectifiers (SCR), with four 1,050 kW Detroit Diesel gensets driving two 1,500 hp DC motors plus a bow thruster. The boat is scheduled to make four trips a day from its berth at the Port of Miami cruise ship terminal.

Machine Works Nabs Coast

Guard Contracts

Machine Works at Essex has been awarded two new contracts by the U.S. Coast Guard for its 110

Construction of one of Elliot Bay

Design Group's (EBDG) largest marine engineering projects is underway at Atlantic Marine. The design of what will reportedly be the largest known passenger

SWATH (Small Waterplane Area

Twin Hull) vessel built in the U.S. is for a 1,200-passenger gaming vessel for International

Hospitality America Corp.

Completion is scheduled for March 1998. The vessel design features variable displacement, taking on or discharging ballast water to vary the draft, with the goal of optimizing its seakeeping charac- teristics. The vessel will be certi- fied under USCG rules for large

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