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KHI Finishes Handymax Bulker

Tanghai For COSCO

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (KHI) has completed the Handymax size bulk carrier, Tonghai for COSCO Bulk Carri- er Co. of China. The ship is the flat deck type with a forecastle and has five cargo holds, and four 25-long -ton deck cranes installed between hatches along the cen- ter line, which allow cargo handling at ports with poor cargo handling facilities.

Tonghai will be transporting mainly cereals, coal, ore, packaged lumbers and steel products.

Main Particulars

Classification ABS

Length, o.a 615 ft. (187.5 m)

Breadth 101 ft. (31 m)

Draft 38 ft. (11.7 m)

DWT 47,980

GT 27,176

Main engine Kawasaki-MAN B&W

NKK Delivers Bulker Stellar

Navigator

NKK Corp. has delivered the 172,000- dwt type bulk carrier, Stellar Navigator, to Karakoram Maritima S.A. of Panama at the Tsu Works. The carrier is the 10th of the 170,000-dwt type built by NKK.

Stellar Navigator has nine cargo holds and hatches of the Dunkirkmax type

Capesize bulk carrier developed by

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NKK, and the vessel provides maximum hold capacity and deadweight within the limitations of the Port of Dunkirk. The carrier is now in service for coal and iron ore transport worldwide.

Main Particulars

Classification NK

Length, o.a 948 ft. (289 m)

Breadth 148 ft. (45 m)

Depth 79 ft. (24.1m)

Draft 58 ft. (17.7 m)

DWT 172,940

GT 87,417

Main engine MAN-B&W

Speed 15 knots

MES Completes Glory Ace For

Blue Valley Shipholding

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding

Co. Ltd. (MES) has constructed the 46,620-dwt bulk carrier, Glory Ace, for

Blue Valley Shipholding S.A. of Pana- ma at Chiba Works. The Glory Ace is the 18th 46,000-dwt type bulk carrier developed by MES. The ship has five cargo holds and four cranes, which were arranged for efficient cargo handling.

Main Particulars

Classification NK

Length, o.a 623 ft. (189.8 m)

Breadth 102 ft. (31m)

Depth 54 ft. (16.5 m)

Draft 38 ft. (11.6 m)

Main engine Mitsui-MAN B&W

MCR 10,100 psx 111 rpm

Speed 16.6 knots

Two IHI Subsidiaries Merge

IHI Marine Co. Ltd. (IMC) and IHI

Marine International Inc. (IMI), which are subsidiaries of Ishikawajima-Hari- ma Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (IHI), merged in early 1999, with IMC contin- uing to cover business operations for both companies. The former business covered sales of parts, offshore repair, and repair supervision of deck cranes and engines, while the latter provided ship design and shipbuilding materials on the package deal basis in addition to offering technical consulting for ship production systems and production facility supply.

Through the merger, IHI intends to establish equipment supply and consult- ing services to meet user's needs in shipyard construction, shipbuilding facilities, ship drawings, shipbuilding materials, offshore repair and machin- ery parts.

Northrop Grumman Granted

Contract From U.S. Navy

Northrop Grumman Corporation's

Oceanic & Naval Systems unit has agreed to a $3.2 million pact with the

U.S. Navy to implement laser line scan- ning technology into the AN/AQS-14A towed array minehunting sonar system — the only one of its kind currently deployed in the U.S. Navy's inventory.