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www.marinelink.com MN53US Fab Delivers PaperBarge to Georgia Pacific US Fab LLC, a Vigor Industrial subsidiary, announced the delivery of a 180 x 52 x 10 covered paper barge to Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP. The design for this state- of-the-art barge was provided by Associated Marine Systems from Corbett, OR and the details drawingwas done by Elliot Bay Design Group in Seattle, WA. Multraship Taking Delivery of new DamenASD 3212 tugTowage and salvage specialist Multraship is to take delivery of a new design of ASD 3212 tug from the Galati, Romania yard of the Damen Shipyards Group. The new ASD 3212 Multratug 19 has been built to a completely new design specification developed after a period of intensive research. Multraships specification called for a tug withminimum 80 tons bollard pull (BP), able to serve specific market seg- ments. During its initial sea trials, Multratug 19 achieved over 83 tons BP and a speed of almost 15 knots.The new design has been thoroughly researched over an extensive period, resulting in a tug that can perform to maximum efficiency in rough weath- er conditions. Multratug 19 per- formed well in 3.5 m waves and is very suitable for escort services. Exhaustive research went into the design of the tugs winch, which has been developed by Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam (part of the Damen Shipyards Group) and Bosch Rexroth, in co-operation with Lloyds Register. Multratug 19 is the second vessel to be built by Damen for Multraship, following the 2010 deliv- ery of the newbuilding ASD3213 tug, Multratug 3, built at Damens Vietnam yard. Damen delivered two ASD 3212 tugs earlier this year to an Australian coal terminal operator, and a further 85-ton BP vessel, a sister tug to Multratug 19, has been sold to Intertug S.A. (Colombia) for delivery in June 2012 from Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania.