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MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS NAVAL TECHNOLOGY & SHIPBUILDING BBBBH3 .SB EH3SH3.EB w DECEMBER 1989 ISSUE To Design & Build . WATE The Western Hemisphere's Most Experienced Swath Designer & Builder U.S. and European affiliates and production plants.© adopted trademarks. Patented and other patents pending. Availability subject to prior sale. Write Swath Ocean at 979 G Street, San Diego, CA 92011, fax U.S.A. (619) 426-2196, (301) 224-2175 or (619) 756-2980 or phone (619) 426-2179 or (301) 224-2174. Circle 245 on Reader Service Card Maritime Radio We'll help you ride out the storm. Regardless of time or weather, you can always be assured of And our charges for MF/HF/VHF radio telephone and excellent maritime radio telephone, telex, Radio Telex Letter, radio telegrams are amongst the most competitively priced. telegram, paging and facsimile services. 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Circle 210 on Reader Service Card 45 December, 1989 ON THE MARITIME REPORTER Your one source for COVER and Engineering News COMMANDER® Editorial and Executive Offices Photos: Cover—Clockwise from logo: Star 118 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010 bearings Princess, Joseph and Clara Smallwood, Del (212) 477-6700 • ITT Telex: 424768 MARINTI Monte Planter, Hummel, Henry Larsen, Telefax: (212) 254-6271 (center) Isabella. Page 25—The USNS Rigel (foreground) and the U.S.S. Canopus in the large building basin of Bethlehem Steel Cor- also has poration's Baltimore Marine Division ship- yard. the nickel- Publishers: JOHN E. O'MALLEY Forecast 2000 CHARLES P. O'MALLEY chrome-boron Forecast 2000 is a comprehensive Editorial Director: CHARLES P. O'MALLEY series of articles authored by lead- Editor: JOHN R. SNYDER ing marine industry professionals Senior Editor: THOMAS H. PHILLIPS shaft sleeves offering their outlook for the final Consulting Editor: ROBERT WARE decade of the 20th century. The Advertising Sales Director: JOHN C. O'MALLEY marine sectors covered include Regional Sales Manager: LUCIA ANNUNZIATA weld-on world shipbuilding, U.S. shipyards, Production Manager: LILIAN IRVINE the short cruise market, the shal- Production Coordinator: SHELLY RECCHIO low-draft vessel industry, and op- Circulation Manager: DALE L. BARNETT knee portunities for U.S. companies in Europe 1992. bumpers, PAGE 12 Advertising Circulation and Sales Offices Outstanding Oceangoing 118 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010 Vessels of 1989 Telephone (212) 477-6700 PAGE 20 and extruded Naval Technology & Shipbuilding bumpers you —Supplement— REPRESENTATIVES PAGE 25 U.S. Gulf states MR. JAMES N. McCLINTOCK Wheelhouse One Building 634 Village Lane North, Suite 205 $576-Million Contract Mandeville, LA 70448 Telephone: (504) 626-7990 Awarded By U.S. Navy Telefax: (504) 624-5163 Italy MR. VITTORIO F. NEGRONE To Electric Boat Ediconsult Internazionale Piazza Fontane Marose, 3-16123 Genova, Italy Telephone: (010) 543.659-268.334-268.513 The Electric Boat Division of Telex: 211197 EDINT I General Dynamics was recently Editorial Consultant: DR. VICTORIA MUNSEY awarded a $576-million contract to Munsey Consultants Strada Del Nobile 59 construct an Ohio Class nuclear 10131 Torino, Italy submarine for the U.S. Navy. The Telephone: 11-68-3639 Fax: 11-650-3478 contract brings the number of Tri- Scandinavia MR. STEPHAN R. G. ORN dent submarines on order or under AB Stephan R. G. Orn Box 184, S-271 24 Ystad, Sweden construction at the Groton, Conn.- Telephone 0411-184 00 based company to seven. Telex: 33335 Orn S Telefax: 411 10531 United MR. MICHAEL J. DAMSELL Kingdom Euromedia, Ltd. With the lasting Houston Ship Repair Tern House, Upper West St., Reigate, Surrey RH2 9HX, England Awarded $13.4-Million Telephone: 07372 42558 Telefax: 0737 223235 quality and performance Telex: 932699 KENPUB G. MarAd Contract Korea MR. CHRIS MAENG you count on. IPR Int'l PR, INC. Yongsan, P.O. Box 100, Seoul, Korea A $13.4-million contract has been Telephone: 273-7765 Telex: MOCNDM K23231 awarded by the Maritime Adminis- Japan MR. TOSHIO EGUSA tration to Houston Ship Repair Inc. Publinetwork, Inc. to convert the tanker Chesapeake to C407. 2-22-6, Tsukuda, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104 Japan an offshore petroleum discharge Telephone: (03) 459-9618 DFGoodrich ship. Fax: 436-1931 Telex: 2425280 BESNA J The work will be completed with- PO. Box 5550, Akron, Ohio 44313 Singapore MR. VICTOR CHIA in a year by Houston Ship Repair of Market Trends Pvt. Ltd. (216)374-4123 Fax (216) 666-6788 122 Middle Road. #07-08 Channelview, Texas. Midlink Plaza, Singapore 0718 © 1989 BFGoodrich For more information and free lit- Telex: HENSAL RS20006 erature on Houston Ship Repair Circle 21 on Reader Service Card Circle 349 on Reader Service Card Member MARITIME 118 EAST 25th STREET Maritime Reporter/Engineering News is published monthly NEW YORK, N.Y. 10010 by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. Mailed at Second Class (212) 477-6700 Postage Rates at Waterbury, CT 06701 and additional mail- ing offices. REPORTER Telex: MARINTI 424768 AND BPA Telefax: (212) 254-6271 V Postmaster send notification (Form 3579) regarding undeliverabie ENGINEERING NEWS magazines to Maritime Reporter/Engineering News, 118 East 25th Business Publications Street, New York, NY 10010. Audit of Circulation, Inc. ISSN-0025-3448 ESTABLISHED 1939 No. 12 Volume 51 4 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Client satisfaction VESSEL DATA OWNER VESSEL TYPE SIZE UNITS Del Monte Reefer 370.000 cu ft 4 In shipbuilding, as in almost any kind of Reefer 580.000 cu ft 5 business, satisfied clients represent one of Tanker Knutsen 112.500 DWT 3 your most valuable assets. Chemical carrier 12.500 DWT 2 Chemical carrier 14.625 DWT 1 But how do you measure just how C.N.N. Tanker 140.000 OWT 2 satisfied a client actually is? Seatankers Phosphoric acid carrier 25.000 DWT 2 Tanker 140.000 DWT 2 There are many ways, but one of the Phiasud Trawler 33,0 m. Lbp 5 most obvious (and reassuring) indications Trawler 33,0 m. Lbp 9 is the number of clients who return to Albacora Tuna purse seiner 91,0 m. Lbp 1 Tuna purse seiner 66,6 m. Lbp 1 place orders for further newbuildings. ASTILLEROS At Astilleros we are proud of all our ESPANOLES clients, but,we take a special pride in those clients who come back to us time For further information: Astilleros Espanoles, S.A. Padilla, 17 and again. 2800B Madrid Tel. 13411 435 78 40 And of course, that's particularly Telex. 27648 ASTIL-E satisfying for us. Fax. 13411 276 29 56 Circle 153 on Reader Service Card The Shipbuilders of Spain This artist's impression portrays the vital electrical systems and circuitry on which the ship's mission depends. The Power Behind the Power Behind every advanced weapons system is an Matching the electrical system to the weapons equally advanced electrical system. Consider today's system is where MagneTek comes in. fighting ship — and tomorrow's. In battle its every action Every AEGIS cruiser and destroyer in the U.S. and reaction will depend on clean, uninterruptible, sur- Navy fleet receives controlled 400-Hertz power from vivable electric power. MagneTek frequency converters. MagneTek is the only Such a fighting ship doesn't simply "plug in." The manufacturer of both 60- and 400-Hertz naval Mil- electrical network contained within its hull and super- Spec distribution transformers. MagneTek fault isola- structure must be highly secure and perfectly tuned to tion units and current limiting devices are now being meet its every performance requirement. installed on Navy vessels. And MagneTek is the leading ©1989 MagneTek, Inc. supplier of secondary propulsion systems and Service-A Contact Magnelek Defense Systems. In the motors to the Navy. United States: 901 E. Ball Rd., Anaheim, CA 92805, On land and in the air? MagneTek electrical (714) 956-9200, FAX: (714) 956-5397. In Europe: products perform critical power supply functions on Zum Panrepel 2, 2800 Bremen 45, Federal Republic of advanced land-based weapons systems and combat air- Germany, (0421) 48693-0, FAX: (0421) 48693-41. craft as well. Wherever the "battleground" may be, if you are working on a new weapons system, or retrofitting an Magnelek existing platform, MagneTek can help you deliver the Circle 222 on Reader Service Card power behind the power. M Magnelek means power solutions for the military. manager of project management. ment, field service and marketing this promotion, Mr. Walker stated, IMO Delaval Names Gary Walker, vice president communications for the Delaval "She has the strong background Three New Managers and general manager, stated that Turbine Division needed in the area of project man- the new assignments "are a reflec- Mr. Jadney has been with IMO agement which will enable us to pro- For Turbine Division tion of our growing interest in the for over 17 years, holding positions vide close cooperation between the new unit business, as well as our in project management, marketing Delaval Turbine Division and its The Delaval Turbine Division of continued commitment to our tradi- and field sales.
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