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News shore based cranes, or offshore using onboard Navy lighterage. An additional ship — called Maritime Prepositioning

Force (Enhanced) Ship — is being added to each MPS Squadron to support the U.S. Marine Corps' at-sea preposi- tioning program.

Joint Venture To Construct

Second Jones Act RoRo Vessel

Pasha Hawaii Transport Lines (PHTL), the joint venture of The Pasha

Group and Van Ommeren Shipping have exercised their option with Halter

Marine for the construction of a second

U.S.-built Jones Act Pure Car and Truck

Carrier. A second vessel, which will be a sistership to the 13,000-dwt vessel, which is currently under construction at

Halter Marine in Pascagoula, Miss., will enhance the service offering of PHTL by providing increased frequency.

The 579-ft. (176.4 m) inaugural vessel has a capacity for 4,300 vehicles, 10 decks and a 100-ton stern ramp. Com- bined with its sister vessel, the two ships will provide weekly service between

Hawaii and two California ports.

Primar Signs ENGC Agreement

With Institute Hidrografico

Primar, the regional electronic naviga- tional chart (ENC) coordinating center has concluded a cooperation agreement with Spain's Institute Hidrografico de

La Marina. The agreement, which was signed on November 16 by Captain Juan

M. Nodar Criado, the Institute's director, brings the amount of hydrographic offices offering their ENCs through Pri- mar to 11. In addition to extending Pri- mar's growing coverage, the agreement also means that the center now has com- mitments in place that will result in

ENC availability from Finland to the

Mediterranean, up to and including the coast of France.

American Superconductor

Choses Alstom For Project

American Superconductor announced the selection of Alstom Power Conver- sion of Philadelphia as its subcontractor in a program to design an ultracompact high-temperature superconducting (HTS) ship propulsion. The project involves a U.S. Navy Office of Naval

Research (ONR) contract for the design and development of high temperature superconducting (HTS) motors for elec- tric ship propulsion. Alstom will be responsible for the design of the stator and drive systems as well as for propul- sion system integration motor for the

U.S. Navy.

Casino Princesa Selects Vessel -

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Vessel-Net.com began implementation of its Marine Administration and Plan- ning, (MAP), Solution for Casino

Princesa. MAP will provide Casino

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Furuno Wins NMEA Awards

Furuno won seven awards at the 2000

National Marine Electronics Associa- tions (NMEA) Convention in Ft. Myers,

Fla. Furuno's new FCV1200 Dual Fre- quency Fish Finder was selected this year's Best Of The Show. This product features a 10.4-in. color TFT LCD and comes with an easy to set 1,2 or 3kW (RMS) transmitter. Additionally, this unit has a Furuno Free Synthesizer (FFS) transceiver, which allows easy selection of a broad range of operating frequencies from 15 to 200 kHz. Hold- ing the title for the Radar-Commercial category was Furuno's FR2105 series of radars. This unit represents advanced microprocessor engineering and colli- sion avoidance features. The FR2105 radar provides a 21-in. multi-color CRT display with plenty of space for on- screen alphanumeric data.

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