Contents Fast Ferry International, Volume 37, 1998

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Hovering Craft & Hydrofoil

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January-February 1998 Vol 37 No 1

5 Orders and developments

13 MMC proposes ban on P&O Stena fast ferry services

19 Star Cruises introduces Auto Express 82 catamaran

27 1997 Deliveries & orders

49 WaveMaster International delivers third pair of monohulls

53 Three more Oma Baatbyggeri catamarans enter service

57 Catamaran production booms in United States

70 30 years ago - The Urbmobile - A hostage to fortune?

Cover: The first fast feny to enter seiyice with Star Cndses, Auto Express 82 catamaran

Superstar Express, was delivered by Austal Ships in November

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March 1998

37 No 2

5 Orders and developments

Editor

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16 First Iris 6.1 catamaran to enter service in Guadeloupe

19 UK operators implement major structural changes

25 Lindstol 33m catamaran joins German ferry fleet

27 Cargo catamaran concepts unveiled at Exhibition

35 Leased catamarans fill the breach in Lisbon

38 30 years ago - Their Lordships opine

Cover: The trials programme of tlie first Iris 6.1 catamaran was recently completed off' France's Atlantic coast and the vessel is due to enter seiyice next month in Guadeloupe

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Hovering Craft & Hydrofoii

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April 1998

Vol 37 No 3

5 Orders and developments

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17 Car ferry service experience discussed at Conference

33 NGA updates Pentamaran designs

36 Seabus 24m catamaran enters service in Pliilippines

38 30 years ago - Riots, race and rivers of blood

Cover: Leroux & Lotz Corsaire 11000 monohull N G V Asco returned to Nice this month for a third season on SNCM Fenyterranée's four routes to the island of Corsica

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May 1998

Vol 37 No 4

5 Orders and developments

15 Lürssen Werft delivers 70m monohull to Indonesia

19 Dakota Creek completes two more AMD catamarans

23 First Hitachi Superjet-40 enters service in Japan

27 AP.1 -88/400 hovercraft launched in Canada

31 Hoverspeed makes pitch for Channel Islands franchise

34 Austal Auto Express 48 delivered to Caribbean operator

38 30 years ago - Paris pandemonium, Czech uncertainty

Cover: Austal Ships Auto Express 48 catamaran Jade Express manoeuvring o f f tiie company's yard in Henderson, Western Australia

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June 1998

Vol 37 No 5

5 Orders and developments

15 IHI Super Slender Twin Hull vehicle ferry enters service

17 Passenger traffic plummets on Hong Kong-Macau route

25 CFI unveils two Incat Designs wavepiercing catamarans

29 Kveerner Fjellstrand delivers Flying Cat 46m to Egypt

32 Caterpillar 3618 powered 91 m wavepiercer completed

34 Yards cast doubts on short term fast freight breakthrough

38 30 years ago - De Gaulle rises from the ashes of Paris

Cover: The first vessel completed at FBM Aboitiz Marine's yard in Cebu, The Philippines: TriCat Universal M K 2008, was delivered to CTS-Parkview Feny Seiyices in December

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July-August 1998

Vol 37 No 6

5 Orders and developments

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15 Austal Auto Express 86 catamaran delivered to Turkey

22 Hoverspeed's wavepiercing catamaran fleet quadruples

25 Second Incat wavepiercer breaks trans-Atlantic record

29 First Lürssen Werft 70m monohull arrives in Indonesia

33 Policies and practicalities aired at aluminium conference

38 30 years ago - The first fast car ferry appears

Cover: The first fast feny built by Fr Lürssen Werft, 70m monohull A m b u l u , on trials in Germany earlier tins year. The vessel lias since been.delivered to Indonesia

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October 1998

Vol 37 No 8

5 Orders and developments

15 Fincantieri Jupiter monohulls complete first season

21 First Incat/Afai K50 catamaran arrives in United Kingdom

25 Kveerner Fjellstrand switches production to car ferries

28 Larger FBM Solent catamaran introduced by Red Funnel

31 Sabre Catamarans delivers sixth ferry to the Philippines

35 British manufacturers announce hovercraft orders

38 30 years ago - Dreaming their dreams away

Cover: The first FBM Marine Solent class 33m catamaran, R e d Jet 3, entered service on Red Funnel's Southampton-West Cowes route at the end of July

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November 1998

Vol 37 No 9

5 Orders and developments

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17 Incat/Gladding-Hearn 37m enters service in Boston

19 P&O reports on first cross-Channel season

23 Companies join forces to promote SES concept

29 San Francisco-Airport feasibility study published

35 NQEA delivers first River Runner low wash catamarans

38 30 years ago - America gets a new president

Cover: Tlie first TMV 70 Aquastrada binlt by Rodriquez Cantieri NavaU, Isola d i Capri

was delivered to Caremar in late September and has entered servive in the Bay of Naples

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December 1998

Vol 37 N o l o

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13 Incat Tasmania completes first 96m wavepiercer

23 Western Australian yards undergo rationalization

31 First car ferry launched by Marinteknik Shipbuilders

35 Kveerner Fjellstrand switches production in Singapore

36 New vessels appear on Singapore-B'atam routes

38 30 years ago - All is not well in the world of hovercraft

Cover: Sabre Catamarans International 22m catamaran Royal Feny 1 is one of 22 fast ferries delivered by Western Austrahan yards during. I997-I998