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www.marinelink.com ticipation in them. Petrobras has initial needs for 146 OSVs to be delivered by 2014. And we also strive to win anchor handlers.? In early April, Incat Crowther, with offices in Australia and the U.S., said it was awarded a contract to design twelve monohull, fast supply vessels to Petrobras. The ships will carry a cargo fuel load of 90,000 liters, in addi- tion to their own fuel, along with 90,000 liters of fresh water. Maersk Supply Service, headquartered in Denmark, has 11 vessels oper- ating for Petrobras and five vessels for international oil companies in off- shore Brazil. Petrobras is Maersk Supply Service's biggest customer. "We have been working with Petrobras since 1977 in ever-increasing water depths, requiring high safety, environmental, specialized operational per- formance and the most advanced and powerful vessels," said Carsten Plougmann Andersen, CEO of Maersk Supply Service. Maersk Supply Service has won three, new major contracts to provide anchor-handling, tug supply vessels to Petrobras--all for four years starting this December. At Des Allemands, La.-based marine transportation company Otto Candies, chief executive Paul Candies said ?we're supplying the rapidly expanding Brazilian market. We have tugs, PSVs and diving support vessels in Brazil.? In Gulfport, Miss., Coastal Marine Equipment delivered deck equipment recently for two, oil-spill response vessels, being built at Brazil's Estaleiro Ilha S.A. Shipyard. Those boats will be outfitted with anchor Chouest's Navship in BrazilMN#5 (32-49):MN 2011 Layouts 5/7/2012 10:06 AM Page 39