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facility in Green Cove Springs, Fla.

Constructed entirely on-site by Sun

State Marine Services, Inc., the 190-ft. 'landing craft' type freight vessel is spe- cially designed and ideally suited for conducting trade with Bahamian and

Caribbean markets that have minimal or unimproved facilities. The vessel was built for G & G Marine, Inc.

Kawasaki Establishes GOM

Service Station

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. of

Japan has added a service center to its worldwide network for marine machin- ery. The new operation was established in New Orleans to support Kawasaki's marine propulsion systems, and is a result of an agreement with AmClyde

Engineered Products Co., a division of

Friede Goldman Halter, to utilize

Amclyde's parts and service center in

Covington, La. Kawasaki has found

GOM business to its liking, recently supplying a set of four propulsion thurster for Tidewater's ROV support vessel Nautical tide. The equipment

Nera

WorldPhone

Marine

A GE TION OF RELIABLE COMMUNICATIONS AT SEA

Nera has led maritime communications since 1919 and is the world's leading satellite equipment manufacturer. Nera WorldPhone

Marine and Nera Saturn Bm provide secure satellite communications at sea.

Nera WorldPhone Marine

Cost effective telephone service

Telephony, fax and data (2400 bits)

Easily installed below deck unit

Small Gyrostabilized antenna to secure stability in all weather conditions

Flexible and self-explanatory menu

INMARSAT*

Nera Saturn Bm

Bi-directional fixed global communications system

Telephony, fax, telex and data (9.6 and 64 kbps)

Auto-polling for real-time information

Navigational, safety and meteorological features

The sea does not accept compromise and neither should you.

Just one call to Nera — that's all you need.

Tel: +47 67 24 47 00 Fax: +47 67 24 46 21 e-mail: [email protected] www.satcom.nera.no

Nera WorldPhone

Marine antenna

Nera Saturn Bm antenna lUHdJ CHANGING THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE includes two azimuth thrusters for main propulsion, one tunnel bowthruster and one retractable azimuth bowthruster.

The vessel was built at Yantai-Raffles

Shipyard in China, under subcontrcat from their U.S. partner FGH.

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A& B Industries Gets Contract

A & B Industries has been awarded the contract to build a new 76 x 23 x 10 ft. model tug for Sacramento Tug Compa- ny. The vessel will be powered by two

Cat engines producing 1,700 bhp.

Bender Joins NSRP

The Executive Control Board of the

National Shipbuilding Research Pro- gram (NSRP) accepted the membership application of Bender Shipbuilding and

Repair Co.. Inc., bringing the number of member shipyards to 11.

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As easy as 2D

From US $995

Free demo CD available

ShipConstructor

Complete ship design and construction inside AutoCAD

ShipCAM NC-Pyros

CAD-Link ShipReport

ARL - Albacore Research Ltd.

Tel: 1-250-479-3638

Toll free: 1-888-210-7420

Fax: 1-250-479-0868

E-mail: [email protected] O Autodesk"

Web: www.albacoreresearch.com *.,„,„«, „;,, •„.",' . Ilhaeore Research Ltd.

ARL

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FirstWave/

Newpark

Honored

FirstWave/New- park Shipbuilding was recognized by the Shipbuilders

Council of America for its "Excellence in Safety" award for 1999. Recipient of the award for the sixth year consecu- tive year, First-

Wave's president

Gerry Walker com- mented: "There is nothing more important to us than safety. We've worked hard to con- tinuously reduce injury rates."

Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

VULKAN

Flexible

Couplings

RATO Family • Main Propulsion • EZR •

Auxiliary Propulsion • Vulastik-L • GenSets

Vulkardan • Cardan Drives • Propflex •

Composite Shafts • Monitoring Devices •

VKE • Torflex • Up to 464,660 Ib-ft. torque.

American VULKAN

Sales and Service 863-324-2424 Fx: 863-324-4008 www.vulkanusa.com • ISO 9002 and QS 9000

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Protecting Gears and

Shafts from Vibration

JRC Taps GOM

JRC is involved in an aggressive cam- paign to win increased market share in the electronics market in the Americas.

JRC offers exciting new developments including a fully daylight-viewable echo sounder for the small commercial mar- ket; IMO-compliant radars for the bur- geoning oil industry support fleet in the

GOM; soon-to-be-released High-Speed

Data options for the JUE-310B Inmarsat

Standard B Terminal. JRC has added five people to its staff in the last 10 months and is — n •muniwiM geared up for prod-M uct line expansion and continued growth.

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