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Newport News Receives

Two Commercial Contracts

For Ship Repair Work

Newport News Shipbuilding,

Newport News, Va., recently an- nounced the receipt of two commer- cial ship repair contracts.

Maersk Line, Ltd., Madison, N. J., has awarded Newport News a five- ship contract worth over $4 million to perform drydocking, repair and overhaul work. This is the shipyard's first multiple ship contract since placing renewed emphasis in the commercial ship repair market.

The nearly identical Roll-On/Roll-

Off ships belong to the U.S. Military

Sealift Command (MSC) and are operated by the London-based

Maersk Line.

The first ship will dock at New- port News on August 18, with the remaining ships arriving at two- month intervals. Work on each ship will be similar. Each ship will be in the yard up to 30 days, with the last ship scheduled for completion June 1993. "We're proud of this contract since it was awarded in a competitive bid against major shipyards in the re- gion," said ship repair director Bob

Leber. "Working five ships con- secutively also presents an excel- lent opportunity for our employees to carry over experiences from one ship to benefit another."

In a second contract, Kloster

Cruise Ltd. of Coral Gables, Fla., awarded Newport News a contract worth over $400,000 to perform bow repairs and drydocking work on the cruise ship Seaward.

The cruise ship will arrive at New- port News September 20 and all work will be completed within 10 days.

Newport News Shipbuilding is a

Tenneco subsidiary with 26,000 employees. It is Virginia's largest private employer and the Western

Hemisphere's largest privately owned shipyard.

Iranian Ship Orders

Go To South Korea

Marking the largest development in its commercial fleet since the mid- 1980s, Iran is set to award $280 million in new ship orders to South

Korean shipyards.

Reports indicate that Hyundai

Heavy Industries has sealed a $140 million order from Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) com- prising four multipurpose cargo ships to be delivered during the first half of 1994.

An additional $140 million group of four multipurpose vessels is said to be the subject of a letter of intent with Daewoo Shipbuilding. It is expected that contractual arrange- ments with both yards will include options on two more ships.

IRISL's liner fleet is composed of approximately 25 vessels built 15 to 20 years ago and deployed in five main liner trades to the U.K./North- ern Europe, the Mediterranean, the east coast of South America, Aus- tralia and Japan/Far East.

The new ship designs will report- edly be in the 20,000 to 25,000-dwt range and incorporate a breakbulk/ container cargo handling capabil- ity.

Iran's last major fleet acquisitions consisted of sixteen 43,000-dwt bulkers built by Daewoo between 1985 and 1986.

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Southwest Marine Wins $5.8 Million MarAd Contract

The U.S. Maritime Administra- tion (MarAd) has awarded a $5.8 million contract to Southwest Ma- rine, San Pedro Division, of Termi- nal Island, Calif., for the shipyard upgrading of the Ready Reserve

Force (RRF) breakbulk vessel Cape

Girardeau. The work is scheduled to take 150 days to complete.

The Cape Girardeau will receive yard work and sealift enhancement features that are designed to main- tain and improve the military use- fulness of the ship.

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