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Singmarine Receives

Shipyard Contracts From

China And Vietnam

Aluminum Craft (88) Pte Ltd., the Singapore-based subsidy com- pany of Singmarine Industries, a division of Keppel Corporation, re- cently won 2 shipbuilding contracts for the construction of passenger ferries for China and a shiprepair contract from Vietnam to refurbish an anchor handling vessel.

The Guangdong Province

Donguan City Humen Hong Kong/

Macau Passenger Ferry Co. has or- dered a 35-meter (114.8-foot) cata- maran ferry with a 30-knot service speed from

Aluminum Craft. Costing S$6 million (approximately US$3.2 mil- lion), the catamaran will accommo- date 250 passengers and 10 crew, will be fully air-conditioned and have 2 VIP lounges on the upper deck.

A second South China transpor- tation company is having a 28-meter (91.84-foot), 138-passenger monohull ferry built by Aluminum

Craft for S$3 million (approximately

US$1.6 million). The ferry's 28- knot service speed will be developed by 2 marine diesel engines, generat- ing a total output of 1,700 kW.

Both vessels will be classed and surveyed by the China Classifica- tion Society (ZC), and should be de- livered in the first quarter of 1993.

The ferries will operate between

Hong Kong and Guangdong, South

China.

Singmarine's major shipbuilding and shiprepair arm, Singmarine

Dockyard & Engineering Pte Ltd., won its third repair contract from

Vietsov Petro, a Vietnam/Soviet joint-venture oil company, for the refurbishing of the anchor handling vessel Lam Son 01. The work will involve overhauling the vessel's en- gines and repairing the bow thruster, tail-shafts, piping and machinery.

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Bergesen Receives 2

New LPGs From NKK

Tokyo-based NKK Corp. has re- cently delivered the second and third ships in an order for 4 multipurpose liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) car- riers from Bergesen DY A/S of Nor- way.

One of the world's major LPG operators, Bergesen will receive the last of the 4 vessels in November 1992, according to NKK.

The 2 LPGs delivered to the Nor- wegian company were the 56,945- dwt Berge Captain and the Berge

Clipper of 48,120 dwt.

All 4 of the LPGs constructed at

NKK's Tsu City, Japan, shipyard will have the capability to transport a variety of liquefied gases, includ- ing propane, anhydrous ammonia,

June, 1992 naptha, butadiene and propylene.

For additional information about the shipyard services available from

NKK Corp.,

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Three U.S. States Planning

Own Vessel Inspections

The states of Texas, California and Washington have all announced that they intend to institute their own vessel inspection programs.

These programs could go beyond the

U.S. Coast Guard rules for inspec- tions.

Texas has already passed legisla- tion which permits state officials to board vessels entering Texas's terri- torial waters, and it is the only state to have done this so far. California and Washington have passed legis- lation which require investigation of the Coast Guard's spill preven- tion and ship inspection rules. If results indicate that the states would benefit from their own inspections then the laws which have been passed would come into effect.

According to reports, the conflict between states and the Coast Guard is growing and the legality of the individual inspections is still uncer- tain.

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