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SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION al tanker was completed. The ves- sel is now reportedly at Saipem's

Sardinia shipyard for the installa- tion of offshore modules. During early May, offshore semi-sub- mersible drilling rig Scarabeo 7 arrived at the yard to be converted, under a $54 million contract, from an accommodation rig to a drilling rig. The project involves 680 tons of steel work to increase the unit's number of legs from six to eight, over the next 14 months.

The yard has also purchased a 1,082.6 ft. (330 m) long concrete floating dock which has been in

Genoa since the 1970s. The yard is currently working in cooperation with the Italian Registry (RINA) to get the dock seaworthy for a tow to

Turkey, which was expected to begin in June. It has been project- ed that the dock will to be fully operational by the end of the year.

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What is believed to be the first lengthening contract ever carried out in a mainland Chinese ship- yard is currently underway at

Qingdao Behai Shipyard, part of

China State Shipbuilding Corp. (CSSC).

The vessel involved is the 4,007- dwt, 1984-built general cargo ves- sel China Seaways, owned by

South Korea's Resource Trading.

The project involves 1,200 tons of steel and installation of three new cargo tanks weighing 290 tons, 167 tons and 135 tons, respective- ly.

The ship will be lengthened by the insertion of a 57.3-ft. (17.5-m) midbody section and converted into a specialized asphalt carrier.

China Seaways reportedly arrived at the yard in March and was expected to leave in June.

During the latter part of 1996, the yard took delivery from its own shipbuilding section of a 100,000- dwt capacity floating dock, mea- suring 755.8 x 147.6 x 59-ft. (230.4 x 45 x 18-m), with a lifting capaci- ty of 28,000 tons.

Since then, the yard has report- edly docked 26 ships in the new facility. Apart from the new float- ing dock, the yard operates two graving docks, with the largest accommodating ships up to 37,500 dwt.

Rotterdam-based ship repair company Niehuis & van den Berg is set to extend its market poten- tial by purchasing a larger floating dock.

Expected to be operational this month, the dock will raise the com- pany's ship size capability by an extra 25,000 tons of lifting capaci- ty. Just as important, it will increase the Dutch company's scope by facilitating vessel widths of 104.3 ft. (31.8 m), compared with the current 82 ft. (25 m) limi- tation.

The floating dock has been pur- chased from Hamburg, Germany's

Blohm + Voss AG for an undis- closed sum.

U.K.'s Cammell Laird has announced that it intends to seek a listing for its shares on the London

Stock Exchange by way of an insti- tutional placing this summer. "We believe that flotation will offer Cammell Laird significant benefits as it enters its next phase of development, particularly as the yard's additional drydock capacity comes on stream later in the cur- rent year. We intend to expand the

Technical Services department and plan additional expenditure

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