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Contracts cle. This multi-purpose T2000 hover- craft will measure 90 ft. (27.4 m), with a total weight of eight tons. Maximum speed is expected to be 50 knots.

Designed to operate year-round, the ves- sel will not be hindered by difficult coastal conditions. In addition, stealth properties will be maximized, with inclined surfaces that will give a small radar cross section.

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Hyundai Wins Container

Terminal Order

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering &

Construction has won a $510 million order to build a container terminal in

Hong Kong. Hyundai was reportedly awarded the deal by a group of Hong

Kong companies; including Modern

Terminals Ltd. Work is to begin May 12 for completion by October 2004.

South African Navy Taps GE

GE Marine Engines will install its

LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines in a combined diesel and gas turbine- waterjet and refined propellers (CODAG-WARP) configuration on four of the South African Navy's innovative

MEKO® A-200 corvettes.

Each Blohm + Voss-constructed A- 200 will utilize one LM2500 directly connected with a gearbox to a 20- megawatt waterjet. Propulsion will be provided by two interconnected shafts powered by diesel engines propelling two independent propellers.

The first gas turbine is scheduled for a 2001 installation, with commissioning of the first vessel slated for 2004.

GE Marine Engines is set to supply

Motoren- und Turbinen-Union (MTU),

Friedrichshafen, Germany with a pair of

GE LM2500+ aeroderivative gas tur- bines. The units will be utilized to power the Corsaire 14000-class mono- hull fast ferry being constructed for

Maritime Company of Lesvos (NEL),

Piraeus, Greece.

France-based Alstom Leroux Naval

Shipyard is building this innovative new vessel class of fast ferry for NEL. The yard also constructed the Corsaire 13000, which is scheduled to enter ser- vice this June for Societe Nationale

Maritime Corse Mediterranee (SNCM).

LM2500+ gas turbines will be used in a Combined Diesel And Gas turbine (CODAG) configuration with two diesel engines. With a total propulsion of 66 megawatts, the 460 ft. (140 m) fast ferry will be designed to transport 1,800 passengers with a cruising speed of 42 knots on its route from Piraeus to the island of Lesvos.

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June, 2000

Jumbo Dredgers Will Be

Wartsila Powered

An order for a 23,700 cu. m trailing suction hopper dredger contracted in

December 1999 by Ham Dredging at

IHC Holland, which is due for delivery in Autumn 2001, will be powered by a pair of Wartsila 12V46C main engines of 25,200 kW, in conjunction with a 1,860 kW Wartsila 6L26 auxiliary engine. The dredger will measure 556 ft. (169.5 m), with a Panamax beam of (32 m), a draft of 12 m and deadweight of 36,450 tons.

Similar machinery will also be imple- mented in the 21,500 cu. m dredger,

Rotterdam, which was ordered last year by Ballast Nedam for a 2001 delivery.

Twin Wartsila 12V46 main engines, as well as a 6L26 auxiliary were also installed on each of two 23,400 cu m dredgers — the WD Fairway and Queen of the Netherlands — built in 1997 and 1998, respectively for Royal Boskalis

Westminster.

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