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CHARGE YOUR ELECTRIC CAR ALONG THE WAY: A new generation fast ferry, the 109 meter wave piercing catamaran Express 3 has evolved from Incat’s 112 m catamaran range. It even includes charging stations for electric cars.

Classi? cation: DnV +1A1 HSLC R1

Car Ferry “B” EO

Gross Tonnage: ...................10842

Length: .............................109.4 m

Beam: .................................30.5 m

Draft: ..................................4.05 m

Deadweight: .....1,000 metric tons

Passengers: .........................1,000

Cars: ....411 cars in car-only mode

Engines: ..4 x MAN Diesel & Turbo 20V 28/33D

Waterjets: ......4 x Wartsila Lips LJX 1500SR

Gearboxes: ....4 x ZF NR2H 60000

Loaded Speed on SeaTrials: .....43 knots with in excess of 600 metric tons deadweight

Service Speed: ................40 knots

Lightship Speed: ..............47 knots

Photo: Tim Kingston / Incat Tasmania ing ceremony held at the shipyard was ria, Gippsland Ports is the designated Anderson Inlet to Mallacoota over 720 trance and the Gippsland Lakes system, attended by Tomohiko Ono, Director of waterway manager of 1,431 sq. km. of km of the south-eastern coastline of Vic- which is used by recreational, ? shing

Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., and Ka- some of the largest and most beautiful toria. The new dredger will be used to and supply vessels. To achieve this mis- zuo Ogasawara, NYK Managing Corpo- waterways in Australia, stretching from maintain entry to the port of Lakes En- sion effectively the TSHD 650 has been rate Of? cer, among others. Isuzu Maru will be the ? rst coal carrier for a NYK

Group’s overseas subsidiary to operate for a Japanese electric power company.

The vessel will transport coal mainly from Australia and Indonesia to Chubu

Electric Power’s Hekinan thermal power station, which is located in Hekinan city,

Aichi prefecture, in Japan. Compared to the standard 70,000-ton (DWT) Pana- max bulk carrier, the new Isuzu Maru has a wider beam and a shallower draft to improve transportation ef? ciency.

Dredger Tommy Norton

The Trailing Suction Hopper Dredg- er (TSHD) 650 ordered by Gippsland

Ports of Victoria, Australia, in Decem- ber 2015 has recently been launched at

Damen Yichang Shipyard in China. The vessel, named Tommy Norton, is now alongside the yard’s new quay under- going ? nal commissioning, after which she will sail for Shanghai to undertake sea trials. Once those are completed she will sail for Australia on her own keel for dredging trials and delivery. The of- ? cial delivery will take place in August.

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