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High Rates For

North Sea Supply Vessels

A large number of recent North

Sea rig movements have made rates for rig support vessels hit new record levels

Sun Oil recently paid over $29,000 a day to charter the anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel Maersk

Pacer to move the rig Glomar Arctic 3 in the U.K. North Sea, brokers reported. In the same rig move, the AHTS Far Sword was char- tered for $26,600 a day.

During a recent week-long pe- riod, Shell Oil company carried out four rig movements and had six vessels on spot market char- ters, while British Petroleum char- tered four vessels to conduct four rig moves.

In the southernNorth Sea, jack- up rig movements have also re- sulted in heavy chartering.

Brazil's Transroll

And Sea-Land Extend

Port Service Agreement

Sea-Land Service Inc., of Edison,

N.J., and the Brazilian shipping com- pany of Transroll Navegaco SA have agreed to extend their joint service agreement to several additional At- lantic seaboard ports, as a result of increased market demand.

The partnership, known as

Transroll/Sea-Land Joint Service, recently began a regular service between Baltimore and the Brazil- ian port cities of Imbituba and Itajai.

Under the extended agreement, the Transroll/Sea-Land Joint Ser- vice will now operate between the

U.S. ports of Baltimore, Port Eliza- beth, N.J. and Jacksonville, Fla to the Brazilian ports of Imbituba, Rio

Grande, Itajai, Rio De Janeiro and two stops in Santos

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