Major EC Yards Outline
'Eurotanker' Development
Five of the largest European ship-
builders recently met in Madrid to
join forces and develop a new tanker
design for the 21st century.
The group, which included
Spain's Astilleros Espanoles S.A.,
Germany's Bremer Vulkan and Ho-
waldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Ita-
ly's Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Ital-
iani, and France's Chantiers de l'At-
lantique, agreed to begin work. A
formal framework agreement is ex-
pected to be signed later this
month.
The VLCC design will be environ-
mentally conscious with a strong
emphasis on preventing pollution at
sea. The working title for the pro-
gram is "E-3 Tanker" (European,
Ecological and Economical Tank-
er).
Some of the main features of the
tanker will be a 2-million-barrel ca-
pacity, special collision-avoidance
systems, and a double-hull internal
structure.
The group, which will divide the
research and development work, has
agreed to meet on a regular basis,
with the aim of completing the
state-of-the-art VLCC by the end of
1991.
Lindenau's Latest LNG
Carrier Developments
Detailed In New Paper
A Paper on liquefied gas carriers,
developed, designed and built by
Lindenau GmbH, Schiffswerft &
Machinenfabrik, Germany, has re-
cently been made available by the
Lindenau yard.
The literature lists such main
particulars as dimensions, dead-
weight, speed, tonnage, machinery,
etc., for each vessel, along with me-
chanical drawings. Included is a de-
scription of the M/T Rio Gas, which
received the "Outstanding Ocean
Going Award" from Maritime Re-
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The Lindenau shipyard can de-
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size between 1,600 cbm to 18,000
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MSI/CAORF Offers
Safety Course
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MarineSafety International is of-
fering a tug-barge simulator train-
ing course at the Computer Aided
Operations Research Facility
(CAORF), which is located on the
grounds of the U.S. Merchant Ma-
rine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y.
The course is aimed at increasing
the margin of safety in handling
barges during transit, in traffic, or
while docking at or departing termi-
nals.
The three-day tug-barge handling
course is limited to three or four
officers at a time. It covers maneu-
vering and docking oil-carrying
barges under a variety of opera-
tional and environmental condi-
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the notch or on the hip of a 54,000-
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Among the companies that have
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