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NASSCO Lays Keel On First Of Two

Trailerships For TOTE

Robert R McGee (at left), president and CEO of Totem Trailer Ocean Express (TOTE), and

Richard Vortmann, president of NASSCO, at the keel laying ceremony for Midnight Sun, the first of two ORCA-class RoRo trailerships being built for TOTE's Tacoma to Anchorage service.

The vessels, which will feature the latest in envi- ronmental protection technology, are scheduled for delivery in October 2002 and April 2003.

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V. Ships To Manage Seven

Primorsk Ships

Primorsk Shipping Corporation of Nakhodka, the Russian-based shipowner and operator has appointed V.Ships. Singapore as technical manag- er to seven crude/product and product/chemical carriers.

Stolt-Nielsen, Vopak And

John T. Essberger Combine European

Chem Tanker Fleets

Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stolt-Nielsen S.A.;

Vopak Chemical Tankers B.V.: and John T. Ess- berger GmbH & Co, subject to regulatory approval by the European commission, intend to establish a joint venture to combine their respective European chemical tanker coastal fleets commencing

December 1, 2001 under the name of Vopak Ess- berger Stolt ChemPool.

SNTG's European chemical tanker fleet has operated under the name of Stolt-Nielsen Inter

European Service (SNIES) and comprises 11 chemical tankers totaling 56.000 dwt.

Since July 2000, Vopak Chemical Tankers B.V. and John T. Essberger GmbH & Co have operated under the name Vopak Essberger ChemPool, and consist of 24 chemical tankers totaling close to 96.000 dwt.

With the addition of the SNIES fleet, the Vopak

Essberger Stolt ChemPool fleet will comprise 35 modern double hull chemical tankers with a total capacity of approximately 150,000 dwt.

The new combined fleet will be managed from

ChemPool offices located in Hamburg, Germany and Dordrecht, the Netherlands. SNIES will trans- fer its marketing and operational personnel to

Hamburg and Dordrecht.

Ensolve Earns Type Approval

EnSolve Biosystems has received U.S. Coast

Guard and International Maritime Organization (IMO) type approval for its new PetroLiminator® 100 Oil Water Separator. The PetroLiminator 100 uses a patented biotechnology process to remove oil and other hydrocarbon wastes from ships' bilge water, so it can be safely discharged overboard in environmentally sensitive waters. The system contains safe, non-pathogenic bacteria that actual- ly "eat" the oil, grease, transmission fluid and other hydrocarbons in the bilge water.

The U.S. Coast Guard type approval certifies that the system meets U.S. and international clean- water regulatory standards for overboard dis- charge. "The PetroLiminator 100 type approval tests revealed that the highest oil concentration in the effluent was 1.36 parts per million (ppm), well below the 15 ppm level required for legal dis- charge," said Dr. Jason Caplan, president of

EnSolve Biosystems.

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Gladding-Hearn Gets Pilot Boat Orders

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding is building a new class of pilot boats. The Virginia, Maryland, and

Tampa pilots will be the first to operate the ship- yard's new Chesapeake class of 53-ft. (16.1-m) launches.

The first two boats will be delivered to the Vir- ginia Pilot Boat Corporation and Association of

Maryland Pilots next October. The Tampa Pilots' boat and a sister ship for the Maryland pilots will be delivered in 2003. The Chesapeake class repre- sents some subtle changes to the hull of the ship- yard's popular "St. Johns" class of pilot boats, said

Winn Willard of C. Raymond Hunt Associates, the designer.

The new all-aluminum boat measures approxi- mately 52.5 ft. (16 m), with a 17-ft. (5.1-m) beam and a 4.8-ft. (1.4 m) draft. It is six inches longer, and wider on deck than the St. Johns class.

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ABS Announces

Executive Appointments

The ABS Board of Directors announces execu- tive appointments. Effective January 1, 2002 the following staff will assume new leadership posi- tions: Robert J. Bauerle, Senior Vice President &

CFO: Gary A. Latin, Senior Vice President &

Chief Information Officer; Dr. Donald Liu, Exec- utive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer; and Vincent F. Roth, Senior Vice President &

Chief of Staff; ABS promoted James C. Card to

Senior Vice President, Technology. Card will assume the overall management responsibilities of

ABS' global technology and research team.

The Board also approved the election of

William J. Sember to a new corporate officer position of Vice President. Offshore Development.

Sember is currently serving as Vice President

Technology & Business Development, ABS

Europe. He will relocate to ABS Worldwide Head- quarters in Houston,Texas. 44 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News