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News

Klyne Tugs Orders AHTS

From Yantai Raffles

The contract was signed on November 23, 2001 in Yantai by Carl Beare, managing director of Klyne Tugs; and Brian Chang, chairman/CEO of Yantai Raffles Shipyard.

Yantai Raffles Shipyard announced that

Klyne Tugs ( Lowestoft ) Limited,

U.K. has placed an order with the ship- yard to build a repeat UT719-T 220 ft. (67m) Anchor Handling Towing Supply

Vessel.

The contract was signed on November 23, 2001 in Yantai by Carl Beare, man- aging director of Klyne Tugs and Brian

Chang, Chairman/CEO of Yantai Raf- fles Shipyard. Yantai Raffles Shipyard is currently building 20 vessels for various international owners. The vessels include some of the largest DP2 Anchor

Handling Towing Supply Vessels for

Tidewater Marine; UT 719-T Anchor

Handling Towing Supply Vessels for

Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft ) Ltd.; Mainte- nance Support Vessel for SMIT Salvor

B V; a FSO (Floating Storage Offloading

Vessel) for Total-Thai land/MODEC

Japan Inc.; and an External Turret for

FMC/SOFEC Inc. The yard, which will have a 10,000 work force within three years including subcontractors, has a 1,410 x 394 ft. (430-m x 120-m) dry dock, a 1,214 ft. (370-m)-gantry crane.

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S G Brown Launches

Lightweight Marine VDR

A lightweight

Voyage Data

Recorder (VDR) has been launched by the S G Brown

Division of TSS (U.K.) Ltd. which is part of the Vosper

Thorny croft group.

The new VDR is reportedly the lightest and most com- pact VDR on the market. Its design has set a new standard for the industry and is expected to prove particularly attrac- tive to fast ferry operators and owners of smaller ships subject to the new IMO regulations.

Despite its compact size, the Ocean 2000 VDR offers the same range of ben- efits and performance specifications as the standard (larger) Ocean 3000 VDR launched by S G Brown earlier this year.

It is fully compliant with IMO resolu- tion A86K20) and the revised SOLAS regulations that came into force on July 1. It features a central data hub with optional flat screen display which will enable the VDR to be accommodated more easily on vessels where space may be limited.

The new VDR interfaces with the full spectrum of bridge, navigation and engine room equipment aboard the ship and contains two 20Gb removable hard drives that provide a huge storage capac- ity capable of recording data continu- ously for up to four months. The Ocean 2000 is supplied with a Hardened Voy- age Recorder (HVR) capsule. This con- tains a 1.5 GB solid state memory that automatically retains the last 12 hours of voyage data in a protective capsule with- in the HVR. It is fitted with an underwa- ter locator beacon that remains active for 30 days at depths down to 6,000 m so that the capsule can be recovered by divers or by remotely operated vehicle in the event of a sinking. Operators can install a float-free capsule if they prefer.

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IZAR has built some of the fastest ferries in the world, but also three dual drilling units for the Gulf of Mexico incorporating the latest offshore technology, and was the pioneer in FPSOs.

IZAR is designing a new generation of fast Ro-Pax ships, but also has the most advanced and environmentally-friendly technology in double-hull tankers and in chemical carriers.

And. most importantly, we are ready to meet any demand.

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