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Astilleros Astander Makes

Repair Inroads for example, now take much less time, allowing the remaining three cranes' lifting capacities to be devoted to other simultaneous activities.

Astilleros Astander has received ISO 9002 accreditation by Lloyd's Register

Quality Assurance Ltd.

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Assured Sure Footing

ViSpa Aquatic matting is being mar- keted to vessel owners as a solution to slips and falls aboard vessels and dock- side.

ViSpa, a 3M product, is reported to be durable, able to outlast by three or four times some marine carpeting. ViSpa is designed to be UV resistant and imper- vious to seawater, chemicals and fuel spills.

The matting consists of non-woven continuous filament bonded vinyl that resembles "vinyl spaghetti" hence its name.

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Astilleros Astander, which has built a solid reputation of providing quality ser- vice in a timely manner, significantly upgraded its facilities last year with the purchase and commissioning of a 200- ton tower crane, purchased from the ex

Boelwerf yard in Temse. The 200-ton crane has considerably reinforced the lifting capacity of the yard's biggest drydock, drydock No. 2 which measures 230 x 33 m.

In fact, Drydock No. 2 is now served by four cranes of 200, 40, 15 and 10 tons, which helps to markedly enhance the drydock's operations and further increase the yard's productivity ratios.

A variety of lifting operations, from removing/refitting heavy hatch covers, shrubs lining the street to the entrance of

Norshipco. "This facility will be restored to the standard where some- body cares. If you look at pictures of the yard when it was built, it was pristine."

The new attitude seems to be yielding great dividends, in that Mr. Ewing claims that the yard — in just its first five days under new management, helped to obliterate an estimated 4Q 1998 loss of $14 million, while raising efficiency 15 to 20 percent within the first 90 days. "If we demonstrate the ability to turn around some of the biggest private ship repair firms in the country, maybe we will be afforded the opportunity to partner with our Navy customers to help them realize the same achievements in the public yards.

Together, we can set a new standard for the ship repair industry."

Southern Arrives At Norshipco

Norshipco announced the LNG

Southern arrived for its reactivation and upgrade. The contract — reported to be the largest commercial contract ever awarded — is for re-activation and upgrade of the vessel to re-enter the commercial market. The ship will be chartered to Shell Marine U.K., and the current schedule calls for the ship to be delivered by October 1999.

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