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2.29 OPERATORS

Freccia Adriatica, operated by Aliscafi, Messina, in conjunction with Condor Ltd, Guernsey, on the Geurnsey-St Malo route

in association with Societe Aljscafi, Messina) Office addresses and telephone numbers: I Joffre Street, San Juan, Puerto Rico Telephone: (809) 724-7570 PO Box 3185, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Telephone' (809) 744-6535 c/o J. R. O'Neal, Tortola, Brit.ish Virgin Islands Tele.phone: Tortola 2292 Type(s): I PT 50 (Rodriquez) Services: See United States Corporation Trinidad & TobagQ Hydrolines lIIeitetsll Kaijo Kanko Co Ltd (A subsidiary of International Hydrolines, Inc) Type(s): PT 20, 2 () 34 Sackville Street, -of-Spain, Trinidad Route: Nagoya-Gamagori; Toyohsahi-Toba Type(s): , 1; Kometa, 1 (Sormovo) Kansai Kisen Co Ltd Serviees: See International Hydrolines, Inc, USA Type(s): PT 20, 2; PT 50, I (Hitachi) Bahama Hydro lines Ltd Route: Osaka-Takamatsu VICE-PREsIDENT SALES AND OPERATIONS: Setonaikai Kisen Co ltd S. Panunzio Type(s): PT 20, 3 (Hitachi); MH 30, (Mitsubishi) Type(s): Dolphin, I (Blohm and Voss/Grumman) Route: -Hiroshima.; Onomichi-Imabari Route: Freeport (Grand Bahama Island)-Miami Beach Hankyu Maikai Kisen Co ltd Type(s): PT 20, 2 (Hitachi) Route: Kobe-Naruto Biwako Kisen Co Ltd Iwasaki Kisen Co Ltd Type(s): PT 3A, 1 (Hitachi) Type(s): PT 20, I (Hitachi) Route: Biwa Lake Route: Matsuyama-Hiroshima Kyushll Shosen Co ltd lIIeitetsll Kaijo Kanko GO ltd Type(s): PT 3A, I (Hitachi) Type(s): PT 50, I (Hitachi) Route: Misumi-Shimabara Route: N agoya-Gamagori lIIishissklltajimamllra Kotsllbu Nihon Kosokllsen Co Ltd Type(s): PT 3A, I (Hitachi) Type(s): PT 50, I (Hitachi) Route: -Hakamakoshi Route: Enoshima-Atami Innoshima suiehu Yokllsen Co ltd Shimakatsllurakankokisen Type(s): PT 3A, I; PT 3B, I; PT 5, 2 (Hitachi) Type(s): MH 30, 3 RoiIte: Onomichi-Innoshima Route, Gamagori-Toba-Nagoya

One of two Hitachi PT 20s owned by Hankyu Lines; Kobe, ana operated between Kobe and Naruto 230 HYDROfOil OPERATORS

HONI:} KONG Shun Tak Co Type(&): PT 20, I (Rodriquez) Route: -Macae Hong Kong Macao Hydrofoil Co Type(s): PT 20, 4: PT 40. .J- (Rodriquez) Route: Hong Kong-Macao far East Hydrofoil Co Type(s): PT 50, 3 (Hitaf'hi) Route: Hong Kong-Maf'ao INDONESIA Indonesian Government Type(s): PT 20. I (Rodriquez) Service: Patrol CEYLON Royal Ceylon Navy 'I'ypets) : Waterman. I (Lnt e-rnatiosial Aquavion) Communications and patrol AUSTRALASIA AUSTRALIA Port .Jackson & Manly Steamship Go, Sydney Type(s): PT 20. I: PT 50.1 (Hitachi and H.o,iI·i"w'z\ Route: Svdney bay and coastal sprvif'e" Kerridge Olleon Corporation A Rake ta 50-seat passenger on the lrtysh river Type(s): PT 20. I (Rodriquez) Route: Auckland-\Vaiheke Island HAMBURG DEPT Type(s): Seaflight P46, 2 (beaflight) EUROPE Routes: In Hamburg harbour CHANJ'\EL ISLANDS John t.atsts Condor Hydrofoil Services, Guernsey Type: PT 50 (Rodriquez) Type(s): PT 50, 1 (Rodriquez) Route: At.hens-Passalimini..Hydl'a A second PT 50 is being operated on the route in association with Societa Aliscafi, Messina Hungarian Navigation Company Route: Guernsey-Jersey-St Malo Type(s): Raketa. 2 (Kra,mo'ye-S()rn1o;lO) Route; - DENMARK Dampskipsselskapet Oresund ENIT Type(s): PT 50,2 (1 Rodt-iquoz, I Westermoenj Type(s): P 46, 2 (Seaflight) Route: Copenhagen-Malmo Route: Cruise routes FINLAND SNAV, Messina Paijanteen Kantesllp] Oy Type(s): PT 50, 3; PT 20, (Rodriquez) Type(s): Raketa, 1 (Krasnov» Sormovo) Route: N ilpies,·CE,pr'l-lscjrna Route: Lahti-J~-vaskyla, across Lake Paijanp Aliscafi SpA Type(s): PT 20, PT 50, 3 (Rodriquez) Route: Messino-Reggio-Isole Liparre Water Police SAS, Trapani Type(s): PT 4, ~ (German Sbipyard) Type(s): PT 50, 1; PT 20, 3 (Rodriquez) Route: Patrol service on the Rhine Route: 'I'raparu-Egadi Islands Tourist ferryboat Co Type(s): P 46,2; H 57,1 (Seaflight) Routes: Mossina-Reggio Calabria Adriatica SpA IIi Navigl1zione Venezia Type(s): PT 50, I (Rodriquez) Route: Tremoli-Isoledi Trernit.i Ministry of Transport, Milan Type(s): PT 20, 3 (Rodriquez) Route: Lake Garda Compagnil1 IIi Navigazione Type(s): PT 20, I (Rodriquez) Route : Compagina IIi Navigazione Type(s): PT 20, 1 (Rodriquez) Route: Lake COIno Lauro Navigation Cll Type(s): H 57, 2 (Seaflight) Routes: - ; Naples-Ischia

Seaflight H57 operators include two Italian companies, Tourist Ferryboat Co and Lauro Navigation Co. and one in the United Kingdom-Red Funnel Steamers of 231 HYDROfOil OPERATORS

The 76-seat ZRYW-I, operated for the Polish Central Board of Inland Navigation in the Firth of

Fiera Internatienale Genoa Svellska Rederialdiebolaget Oereslllld Type(s): PT 20, 1 (Rodriquez) Type(s): PT 50, 2 (Rodriquez) l.igllria Riviera, Genoa Route: Copenhagen-Malmo Operator: SAS and SNAV Gothenburg-Friedrishall1/1l Line Type(s): PT 50, 1 (Rodriquez) Type(s): PT 150 (Westermoen) Route: Palermo-Eolain Islands Route: Gothenburg-Aalborg-Fredrikshavn SoeietaSirena, Palermo Type(s): PT 50, 2; PT 20, 1 Societe de lIlay, Sill' te I.ac Leman Route: Palermo-U stica Type(s): PT 20, 1 (Rodriquez) seeleta Teseo Sarlia Ili lIIav Porto Ferralo Route: Lake Leman Type(s): PT 20, 2 Red Funnel Steamers ltd Route: Piornbino-R, Matiua-P. Azzutto Type(s): SeaRight H57 MALTA Route: Southampton- Malta Aliscafi Ltd Speed Hydrofoils !..td Type(s): PT 20, 1 (Rodriquez) 7 Gilham House, Silwood Street, London E.S.16 Route: Malta-Gozo Telephone: Bermondsey 5574 NORWAY Managing Director: 'V. T. Ludgrove Stavangerske DamllSkibsselskab Type(s): , 2 (Sormovoffsatumi) Type(s): PT 50, 2; PT 20, 1 (Rodriquez) Service: Tourist trips, Greenwich Route: Stavanger-Haugesund-Bergen Taurus Yacht Services Ltd Hardanger SlInnhordelandske Dampskibsselskap 52 Port.chester Road, Bournemouth Box 268, 5001, Bergen Telephone: Bournemouth 20419 Type(s): PT 20, 1 (Rodriquez) Managing Director: Maurice Cutler Route: Bergen-Tittelsness Type(s): Volga, 1 (Sormovo/Batumi) Hydrofoilrlltelle, Oslo Service: Tourist trips, Boscombe Pier, Poole Harbour Type(s): PT 20,2 (Westermoen) William Hudson Ltd Route: Oslofjord 8 Lloyds Avenue, London, EC3. Haanes Rederi, A/8 Telephone: 01-488 3171 V. strandgt, 42, Kristiansand 4600 Type: Watermane (International Aquavion) Type(s): PT 50 Flipper, PT 50 Tumleren (Westermoen} Services: Company transport on the Thames Services: Charter work in Scandinavian waters YUGOSLAVIA f()sen Trafikklag A/S Split AirportlGlobtoUf Skansekaia 6, 'I'rondheim Type(s): Kometa, 6 (Sormovo) Type(s): PT 20 Nisen Route: l:'ula-Dubrovnik Services: Trondheim area doh. Presthils Rederi NORTH AfRiCA EGYPT Bergen Ministry of Commerce, Cairo Type(s): PT 150, 2 (Westermoen-under construction) Type(s): PT 20, 3 (Rodriquez) Services: Canary Island" Route: Abu Simbel-Asswan Central Board of Inland Navigation SlIez Canal Administration Type(s): PT 4, 1 (Werf Gusto) Type(s): ZRYW-l Route: Suez Canal Route: Szczeein-Swinoujseie MOROCCO SWEDEN Touristilllles intecontinentalix, Tangier AS Sundfart Malmo Type(s): Kometa, I (Sormovo design) Type(s): PT 50,1; PT 20, 2 (Westermoen) Routes: Tangier-Algeciras, Tangier-Marbella Route: Copenhagen-Malmo 232 HYDROfOil OPERATORS

The ISO-passenger Burevestnik during trials on the Volga. The craft cruises at 52-53 knots and is now operating between Gorky and Kuibyshev

PACIFIC powered Typhoon, built by a Leningrad yard. The craft seats 90 P-HILIPPINES passengers, and has an autostabilised system. Tourist Hote! and Corporation Two new hydrofoil passenger ferry designs were announced in Type(s): PT 20, 2 (Rodriquez) 1969-the Cyclone, a gas-turbine powered craft with seats for 250 Route: Manila-Corregidor and capable of 38 knots and the (Sunrise), a Raketa re­ Philippine Navy placement. The Voskhod will provide greater comfort and improved Type(s): PAT 20, 2 (Rodriquez); PT 32, 2 (Hitachi) facilir.ies for passengers and crew and air-conditioning will be in­ Coastal Patrol stalled. As with the Raketa, a family of variants will be available Sundaharya Corp, Djakarta to suit a wide variety of operating and traffic conditions, Con­ Type(s): PT 26 struction of this craft will start in 1971. Fastest of the series will Route: Indonesian Coast be the Voskhod 3, powered by a gas-tut-bine and capable of 43 knots. The Raketa has given excellent service and has extremely low operating costs. The cost of carrying passengers on the craft is stated by a leading transport writer, Dmitry Sasorov, to be lower than that of either displacement-type passenger or auto­ Ministry of the River Fleet mobiles. Similar low-cost operation is demonstrated by the 260­ The Soviet Ministry of the River Fleet, operates well over 1,000 passenger Sputnik on the -Astrakhan route. It has been hydrofoil passenger ferries. on routes which cover practically all the found that the cost of operating a Sputnik on this service is only S % major rivers, lakes, canals and reservoirs from Central to of that of the latest displacement-type passenger ferry of the United Siberia and the Far East. Volga Steamship Line. Time-saving is one of the most important In 1958, when hydrofoils were first introduced to the rivers of the considerations. Sasorov says that in many cases, hydrofoils take USSR, they carried ten thousand passengers. By 1968 the number passengers to their destinations faster than trains. For example, a of passengers carried had grown to three million. During the Raketa service covers the 516 miles (800 km) from Gorky to current navigation season (196,9-70) there are 80 hydrofoil services in 12 hours, while trains take 20 hours for the same journey. Price on the Volga alone, operated by vessels of the Raketa, Meteor, of the tickets is the same, however, whether the journey is under­ Sputnik and Burevestnik series. The Burevestnik prototype is taken by hydrofoil or rail. now operating between Gorky and Kuibyshev, a distance of 435 The Meteor service from Moscow to Sormovo takes 13 hours 40 miles (700 km). The craft is powered by gas-turbine driven water­ minutes to cover 559 miles (900 km). A conventional passenger jet units and has a service speed of 52-53 knots (95-97 km/b). requires about three days to cover this distance. In addition to the many hundreds of craft on inland waterways In March 1969, a Raketa of the Soviet Shipping Admin­ employing the Alexeyev shallow draft submerged foil system, istration inaugurated a new high speed international passenger Strela-type craft, with surface-piercing foils, operate in the Gulf service on the Danube. The craft completed the first round voyage of Finland, and supported by Kometas and Vikhrs, provide year­ from Izmail to the Rumanian of Galati, Braila and Girugiu round services between ports on the Black Sea. and the Bulgarian port of Ruse. In April a Meteor, with twice the Strelas were expected to be joined in 1969 by the new gas-turbine Raketa's seating capacity, was put into service on the same route.