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Silver Ships, Inc. has been awarded a fi rm-fi xed price, indefi nite-delivery/indefi nite-quantity multiple award contract for the construction of High Speed Maneuverable

Surface Targets (HSMST’s). The U.S. Navy maintains an inventory of HSMST’s to be utilized mainly for weapon system test and evaluation and fl eet training exercises at nine seaborne target operating activities (“ranges”). This effort of 100 HSMST’s also includes trailers, shipping cradles and spares for a 1st year awarded contract value of $11,683,129.00, with a total estimated ceiling value of $48,000,000.00 for both awards. Work is expected to be completed by November 2018. This contract was com- petitively solicited as a small business set aside through the

Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC.

Louisiana-based aluminum boat manufacturer Metal

Shark Aluminum Boats LLC has been awarded a contract to produce up to 350 specialized vessels for the United

States Navy. The fi xed-price contract is for the construc- tion of the Navy’s High Speed Maneuverable Surface

Target (HSMST) vessels. Based on Metal Shark’s 26-foot

Relentless center console model, the twin engine, welded aluminum HSMSTs will be utilized by the Navy primarily for advanced weapons system testing and fl eet training ex- ercises. The Navy has issued an immediate production or- der for nearly $14 million worth of Metal Shark HSMSTs, with nearly three times that amount expected to follow by the contract’s conclusion in 2016.

On Station – On Target!

Metal Shark to Build 350 Navy Boats

Raceland, LA-based Adriatic Marine LLC has entered into a contract with Master Boat Builders, Inc., of Mobile,

Alabama, for the construction of six 220’-class DP-2 Off- shore Supply Vessels (OSVs). Construction is scheduled to begin in January 2014. Delivery of the fi rst vessel is sched- uled for the fi rst quarter of 2015, with deliveries of the fi ve subsequent vessels following every four months thereafter. Adriatic Marine also currently has fi ve 200’ and two 260’ DP-2 OSVs under construction at C&C Marine and

Repair, LLC, of Belle Chasse, Louisiana. Adriatic Marine accepted delivery of the fi rst 200’ DP-2 vessel, the M/V

Celtic, in October 2013. Deliveries of the additional sev- en vessels from C&C Marine are slated to continue every three months through the fi rst quarter of 2016. With the construction of the six 220’-class OSVs from Master Boat

Builders and the seven remaining 200’ to 260’ OSVs from

C&C Marine, Adriatic Marine will have a fl eet of thirty (30) DP-1/DP-2 OSVs by fi rst quarter of 2016. Adri- atic Marine’s current fl eet has an average age of four years, making the fl eet one of the newest and most sophisticated in the Gulf of Mexico.

Adriatic Marine Orders Six

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