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June 26, 2002

Guangzhou Panyu Lingshan Shipyard

The tug's Dutch-built Mampaey Off Shore Industries towing hook.

The welders and fitters are busy at the Guangzhou Panyu Lingshan Shipyard. A pair of self-dumping hopper barges are shaping up in one building shed on the shore of the Pearl River, while a 19 x 4.5-metre patrol launch for the Hong Kong Immigration Department awaits the installation of a pair of Cummins QSK19 engines with 3:1 ZF gears in an adjacent shed. The launch, built to Hong Kong Marine Department standards, has a pair of Cummins/Onan generator sets and a 15-knot running speed.

One of the tugs twin KTA38 main engines being fitted.

 On the inland side of the building sheds, steel is being cut and shaped for additional projects. At the fitting out dock, a handsome 29.4-metre tug is having a pair of 12-cylinder 1200-HP Cummins KTA38-M2 engines fitted. The engines will drive through a ZF 6:1 reduction gears to turn four-bladed propellers in kort nozzles. The boat has an 8.7-metre beam and a moulded depth of 4.1 metres.   The tug, T.B.Martha I, was ordered by a Singapore-based broker on behalf of an Indonesian customer. The 2400 horsepower Bureau Veritas classed ocean-going tug will have a free running speed of 12 knots. The bollard pull on the Dutch-built Mampaey Off Shore Industries towing hook will be 40 tons. A large hawser winch on the bow equips the tug well for ship handling.

Tug T.B.Martha I at the fitting out dock.

The Lingshan Shipyard in the Pearl River deltas near Panyu was privatized in 1985. Now, under the direction of shareholder and Factory Director Luo Chao Neng it has become a highly productive yard with tugs such as the one here being build in only eight months.

Lingshan Shipyard Directory Luo Chao Neng with
Cummins Southern China Marine marketing manager Fred Chin.

For more information contact:

Mr Fred Chen
Marketing Manager, Southern China
Marine Cummins Inc. USA
EABO Marine 2/F., Unison Ind.,
Centre, 27-31 Au Pui Wan St., FoTan, N.T.H.K. HK
Office: 852 2606 5678 HK Moblie: 852 6190 5136
China Mobile: 86 1333 285 3313
E-mail: fred.chen@cummins.com

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