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maintenance, PCS Marine enhances its tire fighting, life saving and egress safe- ty plan services by providing no cost amendments and secured off-site media storage for five years. The Ontario- based company's accomplishment that remains on the forefront is its recent installation and refinement of its Hull

Structure Maintenance Management

System for 40 ships operating within the St. Lawrence River and the Great

Lakes Basin. This precedes the updated version of PCS Hull Manag- er, providing database replication, 2- way synchronization and ship struc- ture inspections.

Family owned and operated

Dynamic Engineering in British

Columbia is the largest turbocharger facility of its kind in Canada. Split into two divisions — Small and

Large, the company was appointed last year by MAN B&W as autho- rized repair station for its turbocharg- ers in Western Canada. Known for its computerized dynamic balancing and specialized welding techniques, the company is celebrating 35 years of ser- vice this year.

Quebec-based Hermont Marine has a mission — to help cruise ship operators with two common problems. The first is the difficulty of oil removal from the complex mess of oily bilge water on

HFO burning ships, the second is the necessity of being viewed as an operator of an environmentally-safe ship. Her- mont aids the cruise ship industry with its bilge water polishing system. Com- prised of functions responsible for oil, emulsion and solids removal, the prod- uct proves that oil free discharges are possible.

Construction of the first phase of Van- couver Shipyards salmon farming ocean catamaran net cage systems was completed in March. Launched from the

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ECTUG Nabs New Addition

Indicative of Canada's investment in the latest maritime technology,

Eastern Canada Towing Ltd. (ECTUG) purchased and received a premier azimuthing stern drive (ASD) harbor tug for $3.7 million.

With a bollard pull of 45 tons, the

Point Valiant will run out of the

Port of Halifax. Replacing the 24 ton bollard pull Point Vigour built in 1962, the Valiant is an upgraded version powered by twin 2038 bhp

Mitsubishi engines driving

ZP-21 (Z-drive) propellers for increased power and maneuver- ability. Ectug's newest 80 ft. (24.4 m) tug is designed specifically for the handling of smaller vessels, in addition to operating in tightly closed situations.

Main Particulars

Name Point Valiant

Flag Canadian

Length, o.a 80 ft. (24.4 m)

Engines Two 16 cylinder Mitsubishis

Horsepower 2,038 bhp

Bollard pull 45.9 metric tons

Speed 13.5 knots

Propulsion Niigata

Throttle Mechtronics

Fuel 14 gallons

Fresh water 100 gallons

Lube oil 100 gallons

Waste water 75 gallons

Radar Racal Decca

Autopilot Navigat

GPS receivers Trimble

VHF radio Sailor

Depth sounder Furuno

Compass Ritchie

Bow winches Timberland

Liferafts DBC r

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Our client's needs for

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