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1999 Fast Sea Transportation

Fifth International Conference 31 August - 2 September 1999

Bell Harbor International Conference Center

Seattle, Washington, USA

Join the international high-speed maritime community in the shipbuilding and maritime design center of the beautiful US Pacific

Northwest.

Four Exciting High-Tech Tracks:

Theoretical Track

Operations Track

Design Track

Aviation Track

Monohull - Catamarans - SES - WIG - SWAS

This will provide a valuable opportunity to exchange ideas and information with owners, builders, designers, suppliers, and policy makers directly involved in this FAST-paced field of the future.

Contact: Ken Lane

Elliott Bay Design Group, Ltd.

Tel: +(206) 782-3082

Fax: +(206) 782-3449 http://www.FAST99.org

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SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION "Sea Patch" Promises Quick, Cost Effective Repairs

At the recent Ship Repair & Conversion exhibi- tion in London, Trident Technologies introduced the Sea Patch repair system, which was designed to pro- vide a cost effective solution to problems associated with spills, cargo loss and environmental dam- age prevention and control. The Sea Patch allows the ship owner to have, on board, an effective method to quickly and easily seal leaks on the high seas or on the inland waterways. Available in standard six, 12 and 18-in. sizes (different sizes available on request) to accommo- date a variety of jobs and vessels, large and small, the Sea Patch is designed as an easy on, easy off apparatus which offers a temporary seal over a variety of leak sizes. Trident, working under license from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, has developed the new technol- ogy for addressing the problems associated with hull punctures.

Circle 30 on Reader Service Card of two moonpools; installation of third thruster (650 kW output); fitting of two new auxiliary gener- ators (1,170 kW output each); and installation of helideck (capable of accommodating Super Puma

AS332L2 helicopters).

During early October 1998,

Dubai Drydocks was awarded the contract for the extensive refit of the floating production vessel

Cossack Pioneer by owners

Woodside Energy Ltd. The vessel, which is currently moored about 130 km northwest of Dampier,

Western Australia, will be taken off station this month and is scheduled to dock at the yard in

February. The work includes major improvements to the gas export system, improvements to the existing four gas turbines and two stern turbines, the installa- tion of an additional gas turbine and generator, improvement to emergency generators and the uninterrupted power supply, and upgrades of electrical switch gear and fire pumps. Extensive pipe renewals are planned throughout the ship during the upgrading of the process plant. The product

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Dubai, the vessel will be taken through its sixth special survey, under ABS regulations. Apart from winning this contract, Dubai

Drydocks' figures for ships being handled during its financial year - to the end of October - is running at the same levels as 1997, with

ULCCs and VLCCs totaling 38, compared with 35 at the same period last year. Ships of this type recently at the yard include: NT

Argonaut's 285,640-dwt VLCC

Argo Athena; Frontline's 491,120- dwt ULCC Sea World (reported to be the world's largest vessel);

Olympic Shipping's 302,789-dwt

ULCC Olympic Legacy; Livanos' 357,053-dwt ULCC Stavros GL;

World-Wide Shipping's 276,422- dwt VLCC Pisa; and Ceres

Hellenic's 412,098-dwt ULCC

Kapetan Hatzis.

Despite the increasing competi- tion within the shiprepair industry, particularly from the yards in South

East Asia, Bahrain's Arab

Shipbuilding & Repair

Yard (ASRY) has experi- enced satisfactory demand during the third quarter of 1998, record- ing sales for the first nine months of the year slight- ly above budgeted levels at $61.5 million. Once again, demand during the summer period increased, with the total productive man-hours in the third quarter up 16 percent

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