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Tech Files

Innovative products, technologies and concepts

New ‘Auto Mode’ for FLUME

For decades, Flume Roll Stabilization Systems have been installed on hundreds of vessels aiming to deliver increased comfort levels

Austal/TBHLS and lower fuel consumption. Now Hoppe Marine offers an auto- matic version of the Flume system in development, which automati- ‘Queen Beetle’ gets a Lift cally adjusts the level of the roll damping tank to the current loading

With the help of a total of 80 SPMT axle condition of the vessel by communication with the loading comput- lines, the 83m, 770-ton high-speed ferry Queen er. The company installed the system for the ? rst time on a 15,000

Beetle got from the production hall to the water

TEU container ship of CMA CGM, currently under construction in with help from the heavy goods professionals at

Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding. The newly developed

Tutt Bryant Heavy Lift & Shift.

automatic mode can also be retro? tted to many Flume systems

The Queen Beetle, a high-speed trimaran already in operation without much hardware effort. ferry, will soon connect the Japanese city of Fu- kuoka with the South Korean port metropolis of

Busan and will reach a speed of 37 knots during the crossing. But before it could be used for the ? rst time, the ship had to get from the produc- tion hall to the water. It was less rapid.

Austal, manufacturer of the Queen Beetle, commissioned the heavy goods specialists from

Tutt Bryant Heavy Lift & Shift (TBHLS) to carry out the transport on the site of the ship- yard in Henderson in Western Australia. The

TBHLS lift experts used two 40 SPMT axle lines (Self Propelled Modular Transporter) from

SCHEUERLE.

Credit: HSVA Hoppe Marine

Broco Underwater Cable Tie Cutter Reciprocating Saw Blades Phoenix Master Series for

The BHT-2000 BROCUDA The Xuron Model 2275 Quick- L.S. Starrett launched a series Sturdilite Master Series from

Underwater Hydraulic Tool can Cutter features the patented of “3X Power” Bi-Metal Recip- Phoenix is a low-voltage LED be used for grinding, polish- Micro-Shear bypass cutting rocating Saw Blades featuring ? ood-light with a durable, ing, drilling and cleaning in technology that cuts cable ties teeth that cut more ef? ciently, compact design. The Master underwater applications with square rather than pinching enabling users to make up Series comes in two versions the use of a variety of wheels, them and leaving spikes which to three times the number of – 24W and 48W – producing brushes and attachments. can cut or scratch people. cuts than conventional blades. up to 2500 and 5000 lumens. www.brocoinc.com www.xuron.com www.starrett.com/3xpower www.phoenixlighting.com 54 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • August 2020

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