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Aker Engineering. The meeting resulted in the selection of five dif- ferent cases to be studied, four for a relatively mild fatigue environment typical of the Gulf of Mexico, and one for a harsh fatigue environ- ment typical of the Norwegian Sea and the Atlantic Ocean west of the

Sheltered Islands. A medium deck weight will be studied for both 3,000- ft. and 5,000-ft. (914-m and 1,524- m) water depths in the mild envi- ronment, as well as 3,000 ft. in the harsh environment. A heavy deck weight will be studied for both 3,000- ft. and 5,000-ft. water depths in the mild environment.

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SAIC Wins NOAA

Hydrographic Contract

Science Applications Interna- tional Corp. (SAIC) has won a con- tract to support hydrographic sur- veys by the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Ocean Service. The one-year contract is valued at more than $1 million, with a potential value of more than $2 million. SAIC and its two major subcontractors,

Reson, Inc. and Ocean Surveys, will obtain sounding data in western

Long Island Sound, Vineyard Sound and, optionally, Nantucket Sound, using multibeam and side-scan so- nar equipment.

Giannotti And AK-WA Merge

Giannotti Marine Services, Na- val Architects and Marine Engineers, and AK-WA Shipyard announced a merger. Dr. Julio Giannotti pur- chased the controlling interest pre- viously owned byO.F. (Fred) Olson.

The new entity will be the Giannoti

Corp., with headquarters in the Port of Tacoma, Wash.

Operating divisions will be: AK-

WA Shipyard Div., with a yard in

Tacoma; the Engineering Div., with offices in Everett, Wash., and

Ventura, Calif.; and the Field Ser- vices Div., with facilities in Tacoma and San Diego.

The Giannotti Corp. will continue to offer a broad range of shipyard, engineering and operating services to the predecessor companies' long- time commercial and government marine customers.

The executive management will be: Julio Giannotti, president and

CEO; Frank Johnson, executive vice president and COO; Terry

Jenkins, vice president, finance and administration ;Thomas Dyer, vice president, new programs; Phillip

Grasser, vice president, engineer- ing division; and Douglas

Johnson, vice president, AK-WA shipyard division.

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NEW ORDERS

Construnaves Member Ya

Bolster Orderbooks

Spain's Construnaves me shipyards have reported im newbuilding contracts of late.

Astilleros de Huelva signed a ( tract to build a pair of RoRo ($20 million per) for Eston Ro.

Shipping of Estonia, with an opti for two additional ships. The ya also building four 5,600-dwt mul purpose containerships ft

Lithuanian Multipurpose Ship

Finally, the yard will soon deliver pair of advanced-design ferries

Spanish owner Isnasa.

At the end of last year, CI

Freire, located in Galicia, won contract to built a pair of 5,500- refrigerated cargo carriers for tt

Spanish owner Maritima del Norte.

Member yard Astilleros Armon won an international contract for three 2 x 2,000-bhp tugs for Union de Remorquage et Sauvetage of Bel- gium. There is also the possibility of three additional tugs. Armon, along with Construnaves members

Gondan and Zamacona, share an order for seven tugs for the Boluda

Group, one of the more active tug and salvage companies in Spain.

The contract is pending financing arrangements.

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Ship

Meyer Werft Books Cruise

Orders

The Republic of Indonesia ordered two more passenger ships from

Meyer Werft shipyard. These ships are replicas of the 14,000-gt

Dobonsolo-type vessels, which mea- sure 481 ft. (146.5 m) long and have a capacity for nearly 2,000 passen- gers. After delivery of the newbuildings by the fall of 1997, the shipyard will have built a total of 24 ships for Indonesia.

Presently, the sixteenth passen- ger ship (6,000-grt/l,000 passengers) is nearing completion, with delivery scheduled for next month.

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Kvaerner Govan Contracted

To Build Vessel

A contract was signed between

Glasgow-based shipowner

Harrisons (Clyde) Ltd. and ship- builder Kvaerner Govan Ltd. to build a platform supply vessel, a vessel to be operated by Stirling Shipping

Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of

Harrisons. The vessel is intended to be based in Aberdeen and operated in the U.K. sector of the North Sea.

It is scheduled for delivery in

June 1996. The contract is the third this year by an affiliate of Harrisons for vessel construction with Clyde- based shipbuilders.

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