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Austal to Build Circle Line's

First High Speed Vessel

Austal USA has signed a contract with New York operator, Circle Line-Statue of Liberty Ferry, Inc. (Circle Line) for a 143-ft. (43.5-m) passenger cata- maran, which will be the first aluminium high- speed vessel for this operator and the third contract

Austal USA has secured for the New York area in the last six months. When delivered in late June 2003, it will be part of an association between New

York State and the Austal Group with the 136-ft. (41.4-m) Cloud Nine dinner cruise vessel being delivered by Austal USA in the previous month and the delivery the following month of a 280-ft. (85.3- m) High Speed Catamaran into Rochester, N.Y. by

Austal Ships of Australia.

Capable of 29 knots and with the capacity for 600 passengers, the new vessel has been developed through close co-operation between Austal USA and Circle Line and will expand their harbor sight- seeing cruises, evening charters and longer distance runs.

The catamaran's interior incorporates numerous features that will enable Circle Line to quickly change the configuration for these different operat- ing modes. Power for the vessel will be supplied by four Cummins KTA38M2 diesel engines, each cou- pled to a Hamilton 571 waterjet through a Reintjes

WVS 440 reversing gearbox.

This configuration allows the catamaran to be operated with either two or four engines, giving the vessel two distinct service speeds to match its var- ied operating profiles.

The vessel is scheduled to enter service in early

July 2003, and Circle Line has an option to pur- chase a second vessel.

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MHI Receives Dredger Order from Suez Canal Authority

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order for a large size dredge from the

Suez Canal Authority of Egypt. The vessel, which will be the largest dredger ever built in Japan with a hopper capacity, will be built at the Kobe Ship- yard and Machinery Works of MHI and is slated for the delivery in June 2004.

To date, MHI has delivered six dredgers to the

Suez Canal Authority, and this order is the first dredger order for MHI to receive from the Suez

Canal Authority in the past 18 years, to which MHI delivered a dredger with the hopper capacity of 6,500 cu. m. in 1984, which was ordered in 1983.

The vessel is of a trailing suction hopper dredger having hold capacity of 10,000 cu. m., the vessel is capable of dredging silt, mud, sand and gravel by means of two drag arms situated on both sides of the vessel. The dredged materials are to be dis- charged through the conical bottoms valves equipped on the bottom of the mud hold.

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Main Particulars

Length, (o.a.) 143 ft. (43.5 m)

Beam, (molded)... 38 ft. (11.5 m)

Hull depth, (molded) 12 ft. (3.6 m)

COI 600

Main engines 4 x Cummins KTA 38-M2

Gearboxes 4 x Reintjes WVS 440 DL

Wateijets 4 x Hamilton 571

Speed 29 knots

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