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June 2006 15 of cement and anything that might be needed up river. Most cargo is stowed on the rounded cabin top, tucked in behind a windbreak and lashed to rails provided for that purpose. Plastic cages of live ducks and chickens go onto the small aft deck behind the engine room.

Passengers wanting to go further up the Rajang River from Kapit board slightly smaller 500 hp Cummins

KTA19 M powered express boats. These boats will, except in the dry season, take them another four or five hours upriver to Belaga. The narrowing river above

Kapit, flows through a number of tricky spots including the notorious Pelagus

Rapids.

Texas-Sized Offshore

Wind Farm

A proposal to build the biggest off- shore wind farm in the nation won approval from Texas state officials, the latest development in the fast-growing segment of the alternative-energy indus- try, the Washington Post reported..

Texas General Land Office, which man- ages state lands and mineral rights, said that it reached an agreement granting

Superior Renewable Energy LLC the rights to 39,900 acres of submerged lands in the Gulf of Mexico, just off the coast of Padre Island and south of Baffin

Bay. The big wind turbines, expected to number more than 100, will be erected as few as three and as many as eight miles offshore.

Concordia Orders Two

Ships

Concordia Maritime's and Brodosplit shipyard's boards have issued final approval of the newbuilding contract for vessels number seven and eight in

Concordia Maritime's P-MAX-series.

Estimated time for delivery is the 4Q 2009.

New CEO at ShipNet

ShipNet named

Tormod Haavi as its new Managing

Director, succeeding

Sven Erik Dølvik.

Haavi will assume his new role from

July 1, 2006. Haavi was ShipNet's

Commercial Director until the end of 2000. During the years since he left

ShipNet, Haavi has worked as an inde- pendent management consultant. His projects, amongst others, have been related to business development, merg- ers and acquisitions on an international level. "ShipNet`s unique asset in the form of its global customer base and shipping competence, is a great basis, but without adapting to tomorrows tech- nology and changes, is worth nothing, " said Tormod Haavi. "Our job is to fur- ther build on this basis in order to main- tain and further develop ShipNet`s lead- ing market position."

Tal Anniversary

On May 19, Avi Tal, a 27 year veteran of the marine and cruise industry, cele- brated his first year at the helm of

Callenberg Engineering. He is busy directing Callenberg's growth and expansion activities as a marine techni- cal support company, specializing in electrical, control, automation and

HVAC technologies.Prior to pursuing his entrepreneurial career, he spent 13 years with Carnival Cruise Lines in sev-

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