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Trinity-Beaumont Acquires 2nd Large Dry Dock

The Gulfport, Miss.-based Trin- ity Marine Group (TMG) has ac- quired a drydock with a lifting ca- pacity of20,000 long tons capable of servicing a wide variety of ships, offshore structures and barges. The drydock will be placed in service at

Trinity-Beaumont (Texas) in late 1992 and will complement another 15,000-ton floating drydock sched- uled to go into service there on Au- gust 15th. Overall, the new drydock is 586-feetlong, 137.5-feet wide and has 108.583-feet clear width between the wing walls. Maximum draft over deck is 31.91-feet.

John Dane III, president of Trin- ity Marine Group, said that both

Trinity-Beaumont drydocks are ca- pable of handling a wide variety of ship and rig repair, conversion and modification work including double- hull conversions to meet OPA90 re- quirements. "We can also handle

Navy service life extension pro- grams (SLEP), as well as very large and wide ocean going barges," he continued.

The new drydock is fully certified by the U.S. Navy to MIL-

SPEC-1625 at 10,800 long tons and is in excellent condition according to Mr. Dane.

TMG's president stated that the new drydock has already serviced many Navy ships and that most of the Navy vessels planned for homeporting on the U.S. Gulf Coast can be handled by one or both of the

Beaumont drydocks, with the ex- ception of a few very large warships such as aircraft carriers and some submarines. Trinity-Beaumont will add a complete repair department to efficiently handle the new repair business.

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Marine Group and its Beaumont shipyard,

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Saudi's Begin Major VLCC

Acquisition Program

Two Saudi Arabian organiza- tions, Vela International Marine and the National Shipping Company of

Saudi Arabia (NSCSA), have invited bids for the construction of double- hulled tankers totaling two million barrels in capacity.

Vela, Saudi Aramco's chartering arm, is in the market for an addi- tional three tankers of280,000 dwt, which constitutes the third-phase of its fleet investment program.

The first-phase of Vela's ordering program was initiated in February 1991 with six, 280,000-dwt tankers, split between Mitsubishi Heavy In- dustries and NKK Corporation of

Japan. A further six, 380,000-dwt newbuildings were ordered from

Denmark-based Odense Staal- skibsvaerft and Hyundai Heavy In- dustries of South Korea.

NSCSA is pursuing a plan for the acquisition of between two and five

VLCCs, with all the newbuild ton- nage likely to be chartered to Saudi

Aramco. Depending on the type of construction adopted, NSCSA's pro- fram could be worth $500 million to 600 million. Upon completion, the vessels will be operated by Odfjell

Tankers, a subsidiary of the Norwe- gian shipping group Storli.

In addition to the Japanese and

South Koreans, certain European shipyards have also been included in both companies' tender invita- tions.

Blohm + Voss Receives $1.7 Million LPG Refit Job

A $1.7 million contract was re- cently awarded to the German ship- yard of Blohm + Voss for the refit of the 29,528-dwt, Hong Kong-regis- tered, LPG-carrier Cavendish.

The vessel is to receive general repairs including cargo pumps and insulation renewal.

The vessel is owned by Furness

Withy, which is now owned by Ham- burg-Sud. The repair operation is a life extension operation.

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