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Your one source for COMMANDER® bearings also has the nickel- chrome-boron shaft sleeves, weld-on knee bumpers, IlIFGoodrich RO. Box 5550, Akron, Ohio 44313 (216)374-4123 Fax (216) 666-6788 © 1989 BFGoodrich Circle 237 on Reader Service Card ON THE COVER Artist's conception of the 5,600-passenger megaliner Phoenix World City. U.S. ship- builder Avondale Industries is currently pre- paring a bid for the lucrative construction project. INSIDE Avondale Bids for Phoenix World City SMM 90: The Hamburg Show Naval Technology & Shipbuilding Naval Propulsion Systems Review ASNE Symposium— Destroyer, Cruiser Frigate Technology 18 26 35 39 58 McDermott Awarded Shell TLP Contracts Worth $200 Million McDermott International, Inc., recently announced that McDer- mott Marine Construction, through the company's McDermott Incorpo- rated subsidiary, received contracts from Shell Offshore Inc. for deck fabrication, mating of the deck and hull, and installation of the Auger Project Tension Leg Platform (TLP), its mooring system, and deepwater pipelines off the coast of Louisiana in the Garden Banks area of the Gulf of Mexico. Total value of the work is approximately $200 mil- lion. Shell's Auger TLP is the largest structure of its kind offshore and will be installed in 2,860 feet of water in Garden Banks Block 426. Installation is scheduled for comple- tion in early 1993. For more information and free lit- erature on McDermott Internation- al, Circle 58 on Reader Service Card MARITIME REPORTER and Engineering News Editorial and Executive Offices 118 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010 (212) 477-6700 • ITT Telex: 424768 MARINTI Telefax: (212) 254-6271 Publishers: Editorial Director: Editor: Senior Editor: Advertising Sales Director: Regional Sales Manager: Regional Sales Manager: International Sales Manager: Production Manager: Production Coordinator: Circulation Manager: JOHN E. O'MALLEY CHARLES P. O'MALLEY CHARLES P. O'MALLEY JOHN R. SNYDER THOMAS H. PHILLIPS JOHN C. O'MALLEY JUDITH A. LEE LUCIA ANNUNZIATA LAURA CONNOLLY SHELLY M. RECCHIO MAY LOUIE DALE L. BARNETT REPRESENTATIVES U.S. Gulf States MR. JAMES N. McCLINTOCK Wheelhouse One Building 634 Village Lane North, Suite 205 Mandeville, LA 70448 Telephone: (504) 626-7990 Telefax: (504) 624-5163 Italy MR. VITTORIO F. NEGRONE Ediconsult Internazionale Piazza Fontane Marose, 3-16123 Genova, Italy Telephone: (010) 543.659-268.334-268.513 Telex: 211197 EDINT I Scandinavia MR. STEPHAN R. G. ORN AB Stephan R. G. Orn Box 184, S-271 24 Ystad, Sweden Telephone 0411-184 00 Telex: 33335 Orn S Telefax: 411 10531 United MR. MICHAEL J. DAMSELL Kingdom Euromedia, Ltd. Tern House, Upper West St., Reigate, Surrey RH2 9HX, England Telephone: 07372 42558 Telefax: 0737 223235 Telex: 932699 KENPUB G. MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS No. 9 ISSN-0025-3448 Volume 52 118 EAST 25th STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10010 (212) 477-6700 Telex: MARINTI 424768 Telefax: (212) 254-6271 ESTABLISHED 1939 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News is published monthly by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. Mailed at Second Class Postage Rates at Waterbury, CT 06701 and additional mail- ing offices. Postmaster send notification (Form 3579) regarding undeliverable magazines to Maritime Reporter/Engineering News, 118 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010. Publishers are not responsible for the safekeeping or return of edi- torial material. Member VBPA Business Publications Audit of Circulation, Inc. With the lasting quality and performance you count on. and extruded bumpers you need. 4 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News