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Southwest Marine Awarded $26 Million Contract

The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift

Command (MSC) has awarded

Southwest Marine, Inc. (SWM) a $26 million, cost-plus-award-fee contract for the repair, overhaul, dry-docking and upgrade of the

U.S. Navy ammunition ship USNS

KISKA (T-AE 35).

With options, the total value of the contract could exceed $30 mil- lion.

The work is scheduled to begin

December 1, 1997 and will be com- pleted by October 26, 1998. "Winning this contract is a real tribute to our employees and a much-deserved reward for the great work they do every day," commented Ed Ewing, SWM's president and COO.

While at SWM, the habitability spaces currently configured to U.S.

Navy standards will be re-outfitted to meet the requirements of MSC's civilian crew.

The primary mission of MSC is to provide sea transportation of equipment, supplies and ammuni- tion to sustain U.S. forces world- wide during peacetime and in war.

Schuyler Awarded Crowley

Contract

Crowley Maritime Corporation subsidiary Vessel Management

Inc. (VMS) has awarded Schuyler

Rubber Co. a contract to outfit its new class of six Voith Schneider- driven harbor tugs.

The model SR3D type fendering and Schuyler's new model SR-SI (Shibata) type fenders will be fea- tured.

This unique combination of fendering will reportedly result in the highest energy absorption and load deflection.

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NASSCO Contracts For

Bardex Deployment System

National Steel and Shipbuilding

Co. (NASSCO) has contracted with

Bardex Corp. for a sideport ramp shipside deployment system for use in a new strategic sealift ship construction program.

The Bardex system will consist of a push-pull capacity hydraulic gripper-jack assembly and a hold- ing gripper each with operating pressure of 2,600 psi and proof pressure of 3,900 psi, a hydraulic power unit fitted with extensive filtration and a control console equipped with remote control pen- dant capability for operating and monitoring the gripper-jack assembly.

The unloading ramp will be car- ried onboard ship and the Bardex system will be used to skid the ramp laterally from its amidships stowed position on A-deck, a dis- tance of 21 ft. (6.4 m) toward a portside position where a ship's cranes can reach the ramp.

Hamworthy Marine

Receives First Dutch Order

For Advanced Rudder

System

Hamworthy Marine has secured an order for its Schilling Monovec rudder system for installation in a sand and gravel suction dredging vessel for South Coast Shipping

Company Ltd. of Southampton.

The 4000 sq. m. Sand Falcon is currently under construction at the Merwede shipyard in the

Netherlands.

The vessel is the first to be equipped with the Schilling rudder at a Dutch yard.

The rudder, scheduled for deliv- ery in December 1997, features low-speed maneuverability and coarse keeping performance, mak- ing it suitable for dredging applica- tions.

Pennzoil, Spirit Energy 76

Team Up With Boatracs

Pennzoil and Spirit Energy 76 have contracted with Boatracs Inc. to develop a common data inter- face between marine operators and their customers to provide a faster, more reliable and confidential means of communication.

The Boatracs system reportedly will allow companies to transmit data directly from a vessel via satellite into their own information system. The incoming data is then routed to the appropriate depart- ment for report generation, thus eliminating the need to re-key.

Boatracs is working with several offshore marine companies includ- ing Seabulk Offshore, L&M Bo-

Truc and Trico Marine to develop this module.

Lisnave And Falcon Drilling

Sign Contract

Lisnave and Falcon Drilling have signed a contract worth $60 mil- lion for the conversion of the 129,077 dwt bulk/oil carrier

Coastal Golden into a drill ship.

The project is named Peregrine VI.

Originally, negotiations for this project were begun between Falcon

Drilling and Blohm+Voss. At that time, Lisnave and Blohm+Voss were negotiating an association which, under the restructuring plan for the new Lisnave, has paved the way for the present situ- ation, where Thyssen Werften

GmbH became 20 percent share- holder in the newly incorporated

Lisnave-Estaleiro Navais, S.A.

The main objective for the associ- ation was to have Lisnave diversi- fy its scope of activities by taking advantage of Blohm+Voss's experi- ence in the field of offshore conver- sions and repairs.

Blohm+Voss advised Falcon

Drilling of the advantages of hav- ing the Peregrine VI project carried out by Lisnave, at its Mitrena Yard facilities, which comprise drydocks able to accommodate vessels up to 700,000 dwt and a gantry crane of 500 t capacity, a large steel fabri- cation shop, flexible manpower capacity, mild climate and compet- itive pricing.

Lisnave and Blohm+Voss have formed a joint project management 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

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