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CTR Looks To Build An Instant Floot, Calling For 59 Ships In Four Yoars

CTR Group of Woodcliff Lake,

N.J., has stirred considerable excitement in the maritime world with its recent tender for a fleet of 59 ships to help it lay and main- tain 328,980 km of optic fiber cable. The company initially launched its project — dubbed

Project OXYGEN — to build a

Global Super-Internet last July.

The Request For Proposal (RFP) was sent to 22 shipyards in Asia,

Europe, and North America, calls for a fleet of 59 ships of various sizes to be delivered between 1999 and 2003. "This is one of the largest numbers of vessels ever contracted for at any one time in the commercial shipping industry," said Larry Cahill, vice president,

Cableship Finance at CTR Group,

Avondale Restructures For

New Century

From left to right: R. Dean Church; Ronald McAlear; and

Edmund Mortimer.

Avondale Industries has reorga- nized into six strategic units in order to catch up on a $3.7 billion backlog of work (including options).

Avondale introduced six new vice presidents that will head each of the new units. Thomas Doussan was named corporate vice presi- dent and COO. He will be respon- sible for the engineering, produc- tion, material and estimating departments. Thomas Kitchen was named corporate vice presi- dent and CFO. His duties will include all corporate finance departments, business practices and integrated product and data environment (IPDE). Edmund

Mortimer was named vice presi- dent of Government Programs.

Kenneth DuPont was named cor- porate vice president of

Commercial and Offshore

Programs. He is responsible for the Industrial-Commercial group, commercial boat construction, the

Steel Sales Division and the UNO-

Avondale Maritime Center of

Excellence. R. Dean Church was appointed corporate vice president and Chief Administrative officer.

Ronald J. McAlear was named corporate vice president of

Advanced Programs and

Marketing. He will be responsible for advanced programs, marketing, proposal management and public relations.

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Ltd., the company building OXY-

GEN Network.

CTR has planned a bidders' con- ference for the potential suppliers on March 16 in Miami, where it will instruct them on bid submis- sion procedures as well as the time line for completing negotiations, and give them a detailed briefing on the OXYGEN Network. The bids are due March 27. On April 25, CTR will announce a short list of bidders and begin commercial negotiations with them, with the goal of signing a shipbuilding con- tract on June 1. CTR expects the fleet to be based in 59 locations throughout the world under

Project OZONE, the global mainte- nance system for the OXYGEN

Network. It reasons that spread- ing the armada will make possible an average response time of three days for a ship to reach a repair site. The RFP calls for the con- struction of several sizes of ships, which vary according to the water depth they are to operate in and the equipment they will carry.

When the smoke clears, the CTR fleet could look like this: nine 4,000-dwt ships; 38 2,000-3,000- dwt ships; and 12 1,000-dwt ships. . • . • mm-

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