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American Bureau of Shipping's ENVIRO notation, signifying certain ?green? characteristics. RIVERHAWK FASTSEAFRAMESBUILDSFORFOREIGNNAVIES On Florida's west coast, RiverHawk Fast Sea Frames remains busy with U.S. Foreign Military Sales or FMS contracts. Jacob Shuford, RiverHawk's Development Director, said ?our offshore support vessels One and Two are scheduled to be delivered to the U.S. Navy in March and June, respectively, and both should be delivered to the Iraqi Navy in third- quarter 2012. They are 60 meters long, 11.2 meters in breadth, with a design draft of 3.9 meters.? The ves- sels are being built under a contract administered by the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command. RiverHawk is the prime contractor, with Gulf Island Marine Fabricators in Houma subcontracted to make the vessels' steel hulls and aluminum deckhousesand to do outfitting. The OSVs will be equipped with helicopter decks,fast attack boats and guns.Meanwhile, RiverHawk's $29 mil- lion Advanced Multimission Platform--a 43.5-meter, coastal-secu- rity craft, built for the Lebanese Navy under the FMS program--is sched- uled for launch in Tampa in January, with a late-May delivery to the U.S. Navy. Shuford explains, ?The hull, made of epoxy resin, was fabricated by VectorWorks Marine facilities in Titusville, Florida, and transited by canal to RiverHawk's yard in Tampa for rigging in of the engineering,mechanical and electrical systems.?The decks and superstructure were fabricated in RiverHawk's Tampa yard. A retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, Shuford adds, ?The AMP is designed from the keel up to be rap- idly and affordably configured as a function of evolving technology and mission requirements.? CATAMARAN PRODUCTION BRISKATONEWESTCOAST FIRMWest Coast firms are also bustling. Joe Hudspeth, Business Development Manager at All American Marine, Inc. in Bellingham, WA, said ?AAM is enjoying a full yard and has back- logged work.? Orders for new alu- minum, catamaran survey vessels will continue to keep the company hum-ming in 2012. ?In January, AAM plans to deliver a new 134-feet multi- mission, survey catamaran for Lafayette, Louisiana-based, C&C Technologies,? Hudspeth said. A 45- feet survey catamaran will be com- pleted in the spring for Middlebury College in Vermont. AAM recently started work on a backlogged order for a 65-feet, dive-and-survey catama- ran for delivery this summer to the Los Angeles Port Police in California. AAM also plans to soon begin con-struction on a new high-speed, alu- minum foil-assisted survey catamaran for the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers' Florida District. Labor constraints, mainly on theU.S. Gulf, are a worry as firms mmÜÜWW==EEPPPPTTFFOOPPTTJJRRMMNNNN

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