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NEWPORT NEWS

SHIPBUILDING

WORLD S MOST ADVANCED SHIPBUILDER

Shipbuilding, it's another in a long line of firsts. In fact, American

Progress is the first in a series of totally new double hull product tankers built in the U.S. to meet OPA '90 standards. Mobil moves two million barrels of crude oil and refined petroleum products

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PB^^B^j^B success sails, in part, on the innovations UmKmbAAm^H and quality only Newport News

Shipbuilding can deliver. "The importance of this ship goes beyond her outward beauty.

It's the things you don't see — her design and construction — that tell of her importance to Mobil..." Gerhard Kurz, President of Mobil

Shipping and Transportation Company commented at the delivery ceremony.

American Progress is now earning ^VTj j^^WMJH its name for our customer, Mobil Oil ^M SaLp3U

Corporation. For Newport News ^ MSij © 1998 Newport News Shipbuilding

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