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ISSN 0954-3988

Founded October 1961 as

Hovering Craft and Hydrofoil

Published 1979-1988 as

High-Speed Surface Craft Editor Alan Blunden Tel: 0923-827262 Fax: 0923-835278 Editorial Giles Clark Tel: 0580-240202 Fax: 0580-240098 Editorial Address 24 Leaf Close, Northwood,

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43 SES Ride Control System investigation and development

51 First Rodriquez Seagull 400 catamaran enters service

57 Hitaciii delivers Superjet-30 foil assisted catamarans

62 30 years ago - 1964: The year of the hovercraft?

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Cover: The first Seagull 400 catamaran built hy Rodriquez, Achernar, entered service on Campania Regionale Marittima's Napoli-Capri route on October 2

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ISSN 0954-3988

Higfi-Speed Surface Craft Editor Alan Blunden Tel: 0923-827262 Fax; 0923-835278 Editorial Giles Clark Tel: 0580-240202 Fax: 0580-240098 Editorial Address 24 Leaf Close, Northwood,

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March 1994

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33 No 2

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15 Designs and customers diversify in Western Australia

23 Fares fall on Fremantle-Rottnest Island route

27 Incat Australia launches first 78m wavepiercer

35 New marine evacuation system developed for fast ferries

38 30 years ago - Hovercraft Channel link proposed

Cover: The latest wavepiercing catamaran delivered by International Catamarans Aus¬ tralia, Biiqiiebiis's 74m Juan L, on pre-delivery trials in Tasmania

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ISSN 0954-3988 Founded October 1961 as

Hovering Craft and Hydrofoii

Publistied 1979-1988 as

High-Speed Surface Craft Editor Alan Blunden Tel: 0923-827262 Fax: 0923-835278 Editorial Giles Clark Tel: 0580-240202 Fax: 0580-240098

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15 More catamarans enter service in Hong Kong

25 Car ferry designs unveiled at Exhibition

35 Incat Designs developing cargo wavepiercer

38 30 years ago - Hovercraft, hydrofoils and hybrids

Cover: Nineteen years after being delivered, the Hong Kong Feiry Company's Hover-marine 216 HYF 103 remains in daily service on the Central-Tsim Slia Tsui East route

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Editor Alan Blunden Tel: 0923-827262 Fax: 0923-835278 Editorial Giles Clark Tel: 0580-240202 Fax: 0580-240098 Editorial Address 24 Leaf Close, Northwood,

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May 1994

Vol 33 No 4

5 Orders and developments

13 Austal 40m gas turbine catamarans enter service

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16 Operational experience discussed at Conference

26 First 49m catamaran completed by WaveMaster

31 Royal Schelde unveils new vehicle and river designs

35 Gold Coast Yachts delivers first wavepiercer ferry

38 30 years ago - From our 'special correspondent'

Cover: The three fastest ferries buih to date by Austal Ships, 40m catamarans powered l Textron Lycoming TF40 gas turbines, rtmning in formadon offFremantle in Februaiy

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High-Speed Surface Craft Editor Alan Blunden Tel: 0923-827262 Fax; 0923-835278 Editorial Giles Clark Tel: 0580-240202 Fax: 0580-240098 Editorial Address 24 Leaf Close, Northwood,

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June 1994

Vol 33 No 5

5 Orders and developments

David Woodgate

13 Kvasrner Fjellstrand prepares for the future

20 Hovertrans delivers first hovercraft to Indonesia

23 Legislating, operating and cooperating

38 30 years ago - What a difference 30 years make

Cover: Kvcerner Fjellstrand's first FoiiCat foil assisted catamaran making a banked high speed turn during trials in Hardangeifjord last month

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Vol 33 No 6

5 Orders and developments

19 First Incat 78m wavepiercer arnves in northern Europe

23 Four vessels and seven routes across the Irish Sea

27 Latest Sea Containers fleet movements confirmed

29 Austal completes first high speed monohull

35 FFR introduces another fast ferry in North Norway

39 USA Catamarans enters the fast ferry market

43 Costa del Sol operators anticipate better days

46 30 years ago - Summer months of contrast

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Cover: The first fast ferry built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Heavy Machinery, F-CAT40

Royal Ferry, entered sen'ice in Korea with Seokyung Shipping Corporation in June

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ISSN 0954-3988

Higfi-Speed Surface Craft Editor Alan Blunden Tel: 0923-827262 Fax: 0923-835278 Editorial Giles Clark Tel; 0580-240202 Fax; 0580-240098 Editoriai Address 24 Leaf Close, Northwood,

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September 1994

Vol 33 No 7

5 Orders and developments

13 Rodriquez delivers first Foilmaster hydrofoil

16 Engine monitoring system installed in US catamaran

18 Kometa hydrofoils continue to appear in Greece waters

27 Corsaire 6000 monohull delivered by Leroux & Lotz

30 Further consideration of a "High-Speed Craft" definition

32 Marine evacuation systems for high speed ferries

35 Westport Super Express II monohulls enter service

38 An SR.N4 hovercraft returns to the Solent

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Cover: The first Foilmaster hydrofoil laimched by Rodriguez Cantieri Navaii, Tiziano,

entered sendee in Sicily with Siremar in July

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Higfi-Speed Surface Craft Editor Alan Blunden Tel: 0923-827262 Fax: 0923-835278 Editorial Giles Clark Tel: 0580-240202 Fax: 0580-240098 Editorial Address 24 Leaf Close, Northwood,

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October 1994

Vol 33 No 8

5 Orders and developments

15 Traffic booms on the Helsinki-Tallin route

20 Morye Olympia hydrofoil completes first yéar of service

23 Rodriquez Aquastrada enters service on second route

28 Holen Mek Verksted delivers two MM 24PC catamarans

31 HSD introduces a hub and spoke network

35 SeaCat Sweden celebrates a successful first year

38 30 years ago - The first rustlings from Australia

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Cover: Tlie second MM 24PC catamaran delivered tliis year to Hardanger Sunnhord-landske Dampskipsselskap by Holen Mek Verksted, Baronessa, entered service in August

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Vol 33 No 9

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15 Orders and developments

Bazan delivers first Mestral to Buquebus

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27 New companies and new designs appear in Russia

Large fast cargo ships move a step closer

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29 First ABS M-10 composite hovercraft launched

32 MTU and Detroit Diesel cooperate on new engines

35 Asenav delivers live fish cargo catamaran

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38 30 years ago - We'd never had it so good

Cover: The first Mestral monohull built by Bazan, Albayzin, left Spain towards tlie end of October on its deliveiy journey to Sea Shuttle in New Zealand

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Higfi-Speed Surface Craft Editor Alan Blunden Tel: 0923-827262 Fax: 0923-835278 Editorial Giles Clark Tel: 0580-240202 Fax: 0580-240098 Editorial Address 24 Leaf Close, Northwood,

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December 1994

Vol 33 No 10

5 Orders and developments

15 First FBM Marine Tricat 45m completes trials in Solent

19 ACV developments discussed in Canada

23 Integrated bridges for fast ferries proposed at SMM

27 Iris Catamarans unveils a novel design

30 Griffon delivers emergency response hovercraft

32 A new name in the fast ferry fire protection market

35 Fast Ferry International index 1993

38 30 years ago - Familiar routes begin to appear

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Cover: The first of five FBM Marine Tricat 45m catamarans ordered by CTS Parh'iew Ferry Holdings for its Hong Kong-Macau route during trials in the Solent last month

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Fast Ferry Operators Directory 1994

In this Fast Ferry Operators Directory, the eleventh in the annual series, we l i s t details of 214 companies and 780 vessels. Included in the following pages are those companies that were operating fast ferries at the end of September 1994, or had oper-ated seasonal services earlier in the year, or were awaiting the delivery of new ves-sels.

The majority of the new operators listed have introduced vessels during the past 12 months but some have been included for the first time, or reinstated, because we have only received confirmation during the past year that they have fast ferries in service.

Companies that have entered the fast ferry business in the past year include Bali Hai Cruises, Bay Harbor Whale Watch, Bintan Resort Ferries, Ferrovie dello Stato, Heymen Shipping Company, the

Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, Mackenzies Island Cruises, the Munici-p a l i t y of Piraeus, Rottnest ExMunici-press, SPI Maritime, Sukkula, Valfajre 8 Ship-ping, Viking Express and White Dolphin Cruises.

Those awaiting delivery of their first fast ferries include Cat-Link, Corsica Ferries, Diamond Ferry Company, Grenaa Hun-dested, Kyushi Ferry Boat Company, New Zealand Rail, Q Ship and Société National Corse MediteiTanee. A l l but one of which have ordered or leased car feiTies.

As always, we have erred on the side of caution and have not included those com-panies whose operational status we could not confirm. There are undoubtedly some current operators who are not listed, notably in Greece and Asia.

Several companies have been deleted for the same reason. Only three are missing

because they have definitely closed down, merged with other companies or w i t h -drawn their fast ferries: A l m a r Lines, Sing-Batam Ferries and Whitsunday Con-nections.

As in previous years, for the purposes of this directory a fast ferry is considered to be a vessel able to carry a minimum of 50 passengers and having a f u l l load speed capability of at least 25 knots.

The operators are listed alphabetically with details of their fleet in date acqui-sition order. Where there are two dates, the first is the year of construction and the second is the year in which the vessel was introduced by the current operator. Details of multi-stop services are included at the end of the directory.

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Pictured on the cover is one half of the fast ferry fleet of Finnmark Fylkesrederi og Ruteselskap in Hainmeifest harbour: Fjellstrand 38.8in catamaran Varangerfjord and Westamaran 86s Brynilen and Horn0y. Above, Hong Kong Parkview Feny Services Kvcerner Fjellstrand Flying Cat Universal M K I I , Hongkong Macao Hydrofoil Marinteknik 41m Oregrund and Chu Kong Shipping WaveMaster 39m Wu Y i Hu at the Hong Kong China Ferry Terminal in Kowloon. Below, Municipality of Piraeus Meteor Nattem X I I and one ofthe Ceres Hydrofoil Group's fleet of 24 Kometa hydrofoils leaving Piraeus for Salamis and Aegina

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