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Bethlehem Steel Awarded $25 Million Navy Contract

To Overhaul Drydock

Bethlehem Steel Corporation's

BethShip, Sparrows Point Yard was awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to overhaul the Sustain floating drydock, president of the shipyard

David Watson, recently an- nounced.

The contract for work on the drydock is in excess of $25 million and is expected to employ an aver- age of more than 650 people during the five-month contract period.

The Sustain, a 552-foot-long by 124-foot-wide multisection drydock, is normally in service at the Norfolk

Naval Base.

The contract work includes steel repair and replacement, piping re- newal and tank blasting and coat- ing. continuous duty, 730-bhp at 2,000 rpm medium duty, and 825 bhp at 2,100 for pleasure craft applications.

Advanced design features of the engine include individual four-valve cylinder heads, a freshwater-cooled turbocharger and after-cooler, one- piece nodular iron pistons, and re- placeable wet cylinder liners.

For more information on L6170A and other Luggers from 61 to 1,300 hp,

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Gibrepair To Reopen

Following Kvaerner Deal

Norway's Kvaerner Group has fi- nalized the takeover of Gibrepair shipyard of Gibraltar. The yard should reopen in March 1992.

Initial plans call for Kvaerner to spend $4.7 million in investment and operating costs. Under the terms of the 20-year lease agree- ment reached with the Gibraltar government, Kvaerner will virtu- ally pay no rent for the first three years, after which it will pay accord- ing to its profits anywhere from a minimum of $179,000 to a maxi- mum of $1.79 million per year.

The facility, which has three drydocks and is able to handle ships up to 80,000 dwt.

Kvaerner has been interested in the yard for quite some time be- cause of its key location. More than 70,000 ships transit the Strait of

Gibraltar every year. $20.1 Million Contract

Won By Bath Iron Works

Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath,

Maine, was recently awarded a $20.1 million contract for lead yard ser- vices of the Arleigh Burke Class (DDG-51) Aegis destroyers. The contract (N00024-91-C-2800) was awarded by the Naval Sea Systems

Command.

Carnival, Seabourn

Agree To Form

Joint Venture

An agreement in principle to form a joint venture with Seabourn Cruise

Line has been announced by Carni- val Cruise Lines Inc.

Carnival said in September that it was in talks to make an invest- ment in Seabourn, which is based in

Oslo, Norway, and is owned by its founder, Atle Brynestad. Two luxury liners are operated by

Seabourn, which charge about $600 a day, compared with the typical $ 180-a-day cost for a Carnival cruise.

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Carnival said it could eventually own as much as 50 percent of Seabourn.

Alaska Diesel Introduces

New Big Boat Engine For

Larger Commercial Vessels

Alaska Diesel Electric, Seattle, I

Wash., manufacturer of Lugger marine diesels and Northern Lights generator sets, has introduced a new big boat engine for larger commer- cial vessels.

The Lugger 6170A is an in-line six-cylinder, 23 liter, 170-mm bore, turbocharged-after-cooled diesel. It is rated 640 bhp at 1,800 rpm for

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