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MARINE FINANCE

Bellingham Bay Completes

USCG Contracts

Bellingham Bay Shipyard recently completed a pair of U.S.

Coast Guard repair contracts worth $2.8 million for the 378 ft. (115 m) cutters Mellon and

Midgett. In addition to mainte- nance and voyage repair work, both projects involved drydocking, complete blasting and painting of freeboard and underwater body, rudder bearing replacements, and cooler and piping renewals on the ships' supplementary gas turbine engines.

Oceaneering Wins Navy

Contract

Oceaneering Technologies has been awarded a contract with the

U.S. Navy to provide worldwide engineering, production, research, and search and recovery support to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

The value is reported to be approx- imately $20 million. The work scope includes design, alterations, repairs and improvement activi- ties on U.S. Navy Deep Submer- gence assets, submarines and sur- face support vessels in both dry and underwater environments.

Sperry Marine To Supply

IBS To U.S. Navy

Sperry Marine, a Litton Marine

Systems company, has been awarded a contract worth more than $1.1 million to supply a

Smart Ship integrated bridge sys- tem (IBS) for the U.S. Navy's newest amphibious assault carrier,

USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7). The pro- ject involves supplying a complete suite of integrated navigation, steering and control systems for the new ship, which is scheduled to be completed in December 2000.

The Sperry system on the Iwo

Jima will take advantage of the latest advances in high-resolution flat-panel display technology, which will provide significant space savings in the bridge layout.

December, 1998 15 Orders Confirmed For

Sulzer Low-Speeds

The Sulzer RTA96C low-speed diesel engine is steadily becoming established as the one of the lead- ing new super-bore engine for large fast containerships. Wartsila

NSD recently received 15 con- firmed engine orders for container- ships contracted in Germany,

Korea and Taiwan. Five 5,000

TEU ships for P&O Nedlloyd con- tracted at Kvaerner Warnow-Werft and Aker MTW Werft will each have a Sulzer 10RTA96C engine of 74,700 bhp, built under license by

Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Hyundai will also be building the same engines for five 5,551 TEU

Yangming ships being built at

Hyundai and China Shipbuilding.

The five 5,600 TEU ships being built at Hanjin Heavy Industries for Conti/NSB Niederelbe Schif- fahrts GmbH & Co KG will be fit- ted with the Sulzer engines.

THE ULTIMATE & COMPLETE TREATMENT

FOR VIBRATION & NOISE

LO-REZ SOFT MOUNT SYSTEM

Over 350 propulsion applications in place in all types of vessels.

Typical isolation efficiency 97%.

Typical noise levels 62-70dBA.

Lo-Rez RT Coupling • Takes Reverse Thrust * Low Stiffness • Noise Attenuation • Non-Lubricated • No Thrust Bearing Req. • High Damping

Lo-Rez BR-T Isolator • Carries Full Thrust • Damping • Height Adjustment • Controlled Motion • Isolation over Speed Range Designed & Manufactured By:

LOflEZ VIBRATION CONTROL LTD. 186 West 8th Ave., Vancouver.

B.C.. Canada. V5Y 1N2

Tel: (604) 879-2974

Fax: (604) 879-6588

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JACK-OF-AI JL-TRADES.

The Lang Range is built to suit the varying needs of all types of marine galleys. • Blue and brown water vessels. • Cooktop arrangements: griddles, hot tops, french plates. • Bake and Roast or Convection Cooking.

To learn more about Lang's line of heavy- duty marine galley equipment, call: 1-800-882-6368 6500 Merrill Creek Parkway

Everett, WA 98203

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PANELS

When Space, Weight or Cost is a Problem,

Technology Takes Over!

You can take a large amount of bridge control and monitoring functions and shrink them down to 8*'2 x 11 inch sheets of technology, solving the space problem associated with bridge design.

It also lets you take advantage of an ABS, USCG approved data buss that eliminates the cable runs to the bridge while still controlling and monitoring all systems assigned.

The process is as easy as faxing us an 8'(* x 11 inch sheet of control and monitoring items and we will provide a return fax of a panel design which does it all in a fraction of the space, weight, cable and labor associated with the traditional method. Two wires to the panel shown does it all.

Call today for more information!

ELECTRONIC MARINE

SYSTEMS, INC. 800 Femdale Place

Rabway, NJ 07065 732.382.4344 732.388.5111 fax [email protected] e-mail http://www.emsmarcon.com

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