Contents Fast Ferry International, Volume 36, 1997

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Founded October 1961 as

Hovering Craft & Hydrofoil

Published 1979-1988 as

Higti-Speed Surface Craft

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Milroy House Say ers Lane Tenterden Kent T N 3 0 6BW, UK Editor Alan Blunden Tel: 01923-827262 Fax: 01923-835278 e-mail: info@fastferry.co.uk

Editorial & Conferences

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January-February 1997 Vol 36 No 1

5 Orders and developments

17 Australian yards continue to dominate world market

43 Smaller Kvaerner Fjellstrand Flying Cats start to appear

47 1996 Deliveries and orders

67 MTU and Detroit Diesel launch two new engine series

71 Mine sale halts AP. 1 -88 hovercraft re-enginning

75 Delivery of second batch of FBM TriCats begins

78 30 years ago - News from the world

Cover: One ofthe exports from Western Australian yards in 1996, Austal 40m catamaran

Zeng Cheng Y i Hao, was delivered to Zeng Cheng City Port Development in the PRC

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March 1997

Vol 36 No 2

5 Orders and developments

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15 First Incat 86m wavepiercer enters service with Condor

19 The Philippines says mabuhay to fast ferries

31 South Australian Ships completes first fast ferry

34 Mixed traffic catamarans delivered to Valfajre-8

38 30 years ago - Hovermarine enters the business

Cover: Yet another Incat Tasmania vessel on the cover of Fast Ferry International/ This time it's 86m wavepiercer Condor Express on trials in December

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14 Details of passenger/truck ferries released at Exhibition

19 Changing traffic patterns on Hong Kong-Macau route

27 First New Tech Shipbuilding catamaran enters service

29 Caterpillar releases 3618 engine details

35 Semo switches to non-SES production

38 30 years ago - Booming times in North America

Cover: Boeing Marine Systems Jetfoil Horta is one of 14 currently operated on the Hong Kong-Macau route by Far East Hydrofoil (Photograph: Mike McSorley)

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May 1997

Vol 36 No 4

5 Orders and developments

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15 Kvaerner Fjellstrand Flying Cat 35m deliveries underway

17 Present and future projects detailed in Singapore

27 New York Fast Ferry introduces catamarans

30 Dakota Creek Industries completes first AMD vessels

35 RINA conference focuses on High Speed Craft Code

38 30 years ago - Politicians add their contribution

Cover: New York Fast Feny 38m catamaran Finest, built by Derecktor and designed by Nigel Gee & Associates, passing part of one ofthe world's better known skylines

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June 1997

Vol 36 No 5

5 Orders and developments

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15 Holyman Sally introduces second cross-Channel route

19 Fincantieri delivers three MDV 1200 monohulls

25 Stena Line reviews HSS 1500 performance

31 Hitachi completes first high speed vehicle ferry

35 Third Auto Express 82 arrives in Northern Europe

38 30 years ago - Any vehicle as long as it hovers

Cover: The first Fincmitieri MDV 1200 SuperSeaCat monohull was delivered to Sea Comainers last momh and should have now entered sewice in Scandinavia

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July-August 1997

Vol 36 No 6

5 Orders and developments

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19 Day to day operational problems reviewed at conference

23 A fast ferry design for Dutch inland services

27 Macau hosts fast ferry safety seminar

32 Racal launches European Marine Differential GPS

35 Buquebus vehicle ferries move between hemispheres

38 30 years ago - Turn on, tune in and drop out

Cover: Not unsurprisingly, the only HSS 900 to be completed, Stena Carisma, looks remarkably similar bow on to Stena Line's three HSS 1500s

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September 1997

Vol 36 No 7

5 Orders and developments

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19 Design diversification at Western Australian yards

33 Relative stability reappears on Rottnest Island routes

37 Incat Tasmania developing larger designs and facilities

43 High speed vehicle ferry returns to Bass Strait service

46 30 years ago - New worlds to conquer

Cover: Tiie latest Incat Tasmania 86m wavepiercing catamaran to be delivered, Sicilia

Jet, entered sennce in Italy with Snav, behveen Palermo and Naples, on July 2

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October 1997

Vol 36 No 8

5 Orders and developments

15 Stena HSS 900 makes its debut

19 Four new car ferries enter service in northern Denmark

27 Massachusetts looks to fast ferries

30 FBM Marine launches faster TransCat catamaran

32 Pacific Marine & Supply developing hydrofoil catamaran

34 Western Australian yards expand in Asia

38 30 years ago - Inventing a brand new wheel

Cover: Bazan Alhambra monohull Silvia Ana L entering Denmark's Hirtshals harbour last month at the end of a Color Line crossing from the Nonvegian port of Kristiansand

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17 Stena reports on 18 months of HSS 1500 services

24 First 91 m wavepiercer launched by Incat Tasmania

28 Griffon Hovercraft unveils first of a new design range

31 Canadian car ferry completes first operational season

35 Image Marine releases details of 24m catamarans

38 30 years ago - The hovercraft industry continues to grow

Cover: The third time this year that an Incat Tasmania vessel has appeared on the cover but we couldn't resist this view of the first 91m wavepiercing catamaran built by the company, initially called Incat 046, on trials last month (Photograph: Richard Bennett)

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Decennber 1997

Vol 36 No 10

5 Orders and developments

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17 Bazan delivers first catamaran ferry

23 TriCat 45m completes trials programme in United States

27 Sea Containers to transfer SuperSeaCat to Irish Sea

30 Batservice Sea Lord 36 catamaran enters service

34 Austal Ships stretches 40m catamaran design

38 30 years ago - Technology breaking out all over

Cover: Bazan B60 Luciano Federico L, designed in partnership with Advanced Multi-Hull Designs, entered sen'ice on Buquebus's Buenos AiresrMontevideo route on November 4

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Fast Ferry Operators Directory 1997

In tills Fast Ferry Operators Directory, the thirteenth in the annual series to be published

by Fast Ferry International, we list details of those companies that were operating fast

ferries at the end of December 1997, or had operated seasonal services earlier in the year,

or were awaiting delivery of vessels. As always, we have

eiTed

on the side of caution and

have not included those companies whose operational status we could not confirm. There

are undoubtedly current operators who are not listed.

As i n previous years, a fast ferry is considered to be a vessel able to caixy a minimum of

50 passengers and having a full load speed capability of at least 25 knots. The operators

are listed alphabetically with details of fleets in date acquisition 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.

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