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Emmi Corporation Suite 30, 10 Country Line Road Somerville, N.J. 08876. U.S.A. Phone: 908-725-8112 Fax: 908-725-8511 Pusnes Offers Marine and Offshore Products as follows: • Deck Machinery and Mooring Systems • Offshore Anchoring Systems • Offshore Loading Systems • Emergency Towing Systems ,PUSNES' Member of fb MARITIME CROUP P.O.Box 102 N-4818 Faervik, Norway Phone: 47 37 08 73 00 Fax: 47 37 08 65 50 Circle 339 on Reader Service Card Manufacturers of: SANI-SYSTEM™—TYPE II MSD's SWEETWATER™—DESALINATORS SPARE PARTS for Marland, Clearwater and Allied Water Products EXSTAR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION 301 E-1 North Green Meadows Drive Wilmington, NC 28405 Tel: (910) 452-4737 • Fax: (910) 452-4738 Circle 336 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News IGBE Special Supplement page 11 Pusnes Products Made for Rough Conditions New agent for the U.S. Nelson Firestop's Mutli-Cable Transit TriPes Materia,s chosen To Market Czech En9ines System: Approved By USCG, Navy Nelson Firestop Products pro- vides a wide range of products de- signed to arrest the spread of fire aboard vessels. Nelson Firestop's "Multi-Cable Transit™" system provides an al- ternative to the age-old method of supplying individual stuffing tubes for each cable that transited through an integrity bulkhead or deck. The system, which was first introduced in 1966, was subjected to a test program by the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), after which the system was awarded ap- proval. The testing on MCT in- cluded: • A one-hour ASTM E-119 fire test on a bare (no insulation) six-foot by eight-foot by 1/4-inch thick steel bulkhead — no flaming on the cold side occurred. Nelson Firestop supplies a variety of firestopping products. • Another test was performed on a bare (non-insulated) deck plate six feet in diameter and the same 1/4- inch thickness. The results were equally successful. • Shock testing to Mil-S-901C and vibration testing to Mil-STD-167 reportedly did not cause loss of 25 psi of air pressure out of the "MCT" test chamber. • Confinement of 25 psi of air hydro- static water pressure for a sustained period; reportedly, no dislodgement or movement of parts occurred. • A Mil-P- 16685C thermocycling test was performed in which repeated heated 212° F and ambient water temperatures were applied to tran- sits, reportedly resulting in minimal leaking by the transit system. Nelson reports that a 53 percent savings in space, pulling and back- ing time gained immediate accep- tance of the system by waterfront personnel. Nelson Multi-Cable Tran- sit systems have reportedly been installed on several hundred vessels for the U.S. Navy, USCG, USCG- certified vessels and offshore plat- forms. These include steel vessels, steel hulls with aluminum super- structures, aluminum vessels, wood minesweepers, fiberglass mine- sweepers, various auxiliaries, fer- ries and pleasure craft. For more information on Nelson Firestop Prod- ucts, Circle 81 on Reader Service Card Chevron Christens New Double-Hull Tanker Breaking with its long-standing tra- dition of naming its ships after geographical regions or members of the company's board of direc- tors, Chevron recently christened its newest oil tanker the Chevron Employee Pride, to honor 43,000 employees. The double-hulled, 900-foot ship (274.2 m)isthel 1th double-hulled ship in the 39 vessel Chevron ship- ping fleet. The 149,000-ton ship will carry up to 1.1 million barrels of oil per trip to points between the U.S. and West Africa, Indonesia and the Middle East. Tripes Materials was chosen as the U.S. agency for CKD Hradec Kralov of the Czech Republic. Tripes Materials of El Cajon, Calif, is the U.S. Agency for CKD Hradec Kralove, a producer of me- dium-heavy and heavy diesel en- gines from the Czech Republic. The U.S. and Latin American markets are to be serviced by the father and son team of George and Marty Tripes. George Tripes has many years of experience in international sales and speaks flu- ent Czech and Spanish. Diesel engines and gen- erating sets have been manufactured under the CKD trademark since 1973. Several se- ries of the diesel gener- ating sets are manufac- tured, with individual unit output ranges from 405 to 3,250 kVA, and are exported to more than 40 countries around the world. Engines in marine executions cover the output range from 340 to 2,600 kW. For full technical details on the entire CKD line of propulsion and generating engines from Tripes Materials, Circle 123 on Reader Service Card