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THE SYNCROLIFT: One Idea Carry a Lot Of Weight -J"2*-1-• »• - Todd Shipyards Corporation One State Street Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004 Tel: (212) 668-4700 Cable: "Robin" New York LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE NSW ORLEANS/GALVESTON TODD L.A.'s Syncrolift: The World's Largest Shiplift and Land Level Ship Transfer Facility. Ready to Provide the U.S. Navy with Fast, Cost-Effective New Construction, Repair and Overhaul of • i I-)'" l-J * ll»f«U American New York (continued from page 12) chinery space operation can be maintained under normal seagoing conditions. The fundamental design philoso- phy for the American New York Class ships was to obtain optimum fuel oil savings, easy maintenance, and high reliability. Some of the AMERICAN NEW YORK Major Suppliers Main engine Hyundai/Sulzer Coatings: Propeller Mitsubishi Control consoles Siemens Alarm & monitoring system . Siemens Steering gear .Tong Myung/Kawasaki Steering control system .... Sperry Oil-fired boiler Aalborg Main air compressor Teikoku Fuel oil purifer . . . Nagase/Alfa-Laval Main generators Fuji Main switchboard Terasak SS diesel generator Yanmar Emergency diesel generator Yanmar Distilling plant . . . Nagase/Alfa-Laval Sewage treatment system Hamworthy Incinerator Volcano Gyro plant with course recorder Sperry Satcom & satnav systems .... JRC Navigator unit Racal-Decca Latitude/longitude converter Racal-Decca Main radio system ITT Mackay Weather facsimile JRC Loran C receiver Northstar Radars & CAS II ARPA Sperry Container fittings .... Peck & Hale Cargo Hatch Covers .... MacGregor Side Ports Hyundai MacGregor Anchor & mooring winches Fukushima Lifeboats Water Craft America Exterior hull above waterline . Ameron Cargo Holds Ballast & other tanks (Dimetcote) . . Ameron (Dimetcote) . . Ameron (Epoxy) Shop primer (inorganic zinc) . Ameron Underwater hull International S.P.C. & Vinyl Tar Cathodic Protection N.C.E. Sam-Kong Provisions crane Daewoo Provisions containers Nissin Air conditioning Hi-Press VSG Carrier Ceilings and panels Isolamin Level Indicators Gems Valves Bonny Forge Centerline/Nakakita Fairbanks Farris Lichiyama Lunkenheimer Newco Nibco Velan C02 system Ginge Kerr FO, DO. & LO separators . . .Alfa-Laval Plate heat exchangers . . . Alfa-Laval items considered necessary to achieve this philosophy were: adop- tion of the low-speed main diesel engine, installation of an economiz- er, adoption of gasketless type hatch covers, use of provisions containers in place of reefer rooms, and provi- sion of a data logging system. The $570-million, 12-ship order is said to be the largest commercial shipbuilding contract ever awarded, and represents the biggest single peacetime expansion for an Ameri- can-flag shipping company. Daewoo Shipbuilding is a member of the Daewoo Group, founded in 1967 and today one of Korea's larg- est business combines. AMARAGY Companhia Comercio The first of a new flexible design of container RO/RO-LO/LO vessel, the 3,500-dwt Amaragy, has been delivered to her owners by Compan- hia Comercio e Navegacao (CCN), the leading Brazilian shipbuilder. The new vessel, the first RO/RO- LO/LO ship built in Brazil will be operated by Navemodal, which is owned jointly by the Brazillian ship- ping company Emprese de Nave- gacao Mercantil S.A., and Laurents (continued on page 16) 14 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
