AmClyde Wins Large
Crane Contract
AmClyde Engineered Products,
Inc. recently announced that it has
sold two large multipurpose travel-
ing gantry cranes to Lambert's
Point Docks, Incorporated, a sub-
sidiary of Norfolk Southern Corpo-
ration, for delivery to Norfolk, Va.
The cranes, worth in excess of $8
million, are scheduled for comple-
tion in early 1992.
Lambert's Point Docks is upgrad-
ing its capacity with the AmClyde
contract and is firmly establishing
itself as a major commodities and
container terminal on the eastern
U.S. coast.
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erature on AmClyde Engineered
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World Merchant Fleet
Continues To Expand
THE WORLD MERCHANT FLEET con-
tinued to expand between 1989
and this year, and has reached
the second highest level ever,
latest figures show.
Annual statistics confirm that
the fleet is set firmly in an expan-
sion phase after six years of re-
cession, be-
tween 1982
and 1988. By
the end of
June, the
world fleet had
risen to 423.6
million tons
gross, an in-
crease of
13.1m tons on
the year.
The figures
reveal that Li-
beria has over-
taken Panama
as the leading
country of reg-
istration with
54.7m tons,
but this level
is still more
than 30 per-
cent down on
Liberia's total
of 80.3m.
Panama has
been pushed into second place
with 39.3m tons, followed by
Japan (27.1m), the U.S.S.R.
(26.7m), Norway (23.4m), the U.S.
(21.3m) and Greece (20.5m).
Panama's fall and contraction
of 8. lm tons in its flag fleet ended
a period of strong growth which,
despite the turnaround in 1989/
90, has seen the fleet grow by 62
percent in ten years.
Fleets showing the biggest in-
crease in 1990 are Norway, in-
ns
410 -
405
1980 2000
How the world fleet has fluctuated.
eluding Norwegian International
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flag fleet over
both five and
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ods, with
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percent and
75 percent re-
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Of other Eu-
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bers, all ex-
cept Denmark
and Luxem-
bourg with
their minimal
increases,
show a de-
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last five years.
Apart from
the U.K.,
France has
been particu-
larly badly
hit, losing half its tonnage.
The proportion of the world fleet
over ten years old has increased
to more than 63 percent of the
total, compared with 41 percent
in 1980. The picture is even more
worrying among tankers with 73
percent of ships over ten years old.
Germany had the most modern
fleet at the end of June—69 per-
cent of the fleet was less than ten
years old, followed by Japan with
66 percent.
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Gerard Technology Offers
New Generation Of
Teamtec/Golar Incinerators
After several years of testing and
development, the first production
units of Teamtec/Golar Marine In-
cinerators are being delivered with a
new control system that makes the
operation even simpler.
The flue gas damper, diesel burn-
ers and sludge injection rate are all
automatically controlled so that
maximum capacity will be realized
at all times, while burning with the
greatest efficiency and under the
safest conditions. A mimic diagram
is used to clearly indicate all the
operating conditions, and it digi-
tally displays the combustion cham-
ber and flue gas temperatures and
the combustion chamber pressure.
All alarm conditions are individu-
ally indicated.
Teamtec A/S confirms that al-
though the new system has many
advantages, they have managed
through an improved purchasing
policy and rationalized manufactur-
ing to maintain the existing pricing
for the Teamtec/Golar Marine In-
cmerators
The USCG has now published
their Final Rule for implementation
of Annex V of Marpol 73/78, con-
cerning the disposal of solid waste at
sea. Gerard Technology Associates
offers both the Teamtec/Golar Ma-
rine Incinerators and Custom-Pac
2000 Marine Compactors for help-
ing to manage solid waste in accord-
ance with the new regulations.
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