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ABB Receives $5 Million

Ingalls Contract For

Twin Boiler Installation

ABB Combustion Engineering

Systems, Windsor, Conn., recently received a $5 million contract from

Pascagoula, Miss.-based Ingalls

Shipbuilding, a division of Litton, for two marine boilers to be installed aboard the multipurpose amphibi- ous assaultshipU.S.S. Bataan(LHD 5).

The company will provide two

V2M tangent tube, field erected, main propulsion boilers for LHD 5, the fifth ship in the Navy's Wasp class. ABB also furnished the boil- ers for the previous four ships built by Ingalls in the LHD program. The contract also includes ancillary equipment and field engineering ser- vices during assembly, testing and sea trials.

Boiler fabrication will be com- pleted in the company's Chatta- nooga, Tenn., manufacturing facil- ity. The boilers are scheduled for delivery to Ingalls during March 1993.

ABB Combustion Engineering

Systems is a unit of Asea Brown

Boveri, Inc., which provides prod- ucts and services for the marine, power, process, industrial automa- tion, environmental control, mass transit and other markets. The company and its subsidiaries have sales of approximately $5.5 billion and some 29,000 employees in the

U.S.

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Combustion Engineering Systems

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IMC Expands Its

Oil And Audit Services

International Marine Consult- ants (IMC), Inc., Mineola, N.Y., part of the IMC Group, a leading ship management, operations and tech- nical service organization, has ex- panded its Oil Spill Prevention and

Audit Services.

The company cited increased fed- eral and state legislation and the growing difficulty of vessel opera- tors and charterers to keep up with the quagmire of regulations.

The new services will be offered from all of IMC's domestic locations, including its Gulf and West Coast regional offices and numerous field offices located along the coastal U.S.

Company vice president John

O'Conner noted that the turning point for the deluge of oil spill legis- lation came with the Oil Pollution

Act of 1990.

As a single-source provider of ma- rine surveying, engineering and technical services, IMC has been serving vessel owners, charterers, oil companies and traders for over a decade. Some of the company's pro- grams are insurance underwriter approved, thereby granting signifi- cant premium reductions for clients.

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Seacor Wins $3 Million

Navy Technical Contract

Mt. Laurel, N. J.-based Seacor has been awarded a $3 million contract for engineering and technical ser- vices to support the overhaul and modernization of training equip- ment at Navy training activities throughout the U.S. through 1997.

Seacor has provided the support to the Naval Sea Logistics Center

Detachment (NAVSEALOGCEN

DET), Philadelphia, for over 14 years.

The program involves life-cycle support for combat systems and hull, mechanical and electrical technical training equipment. Seacor sup- port to the Navy will include: on-site equipment inspections; developing maintenance plans; repair specifi- cations; overhaul/modernization estimates and installation data pack- ages; and provide configuration management support.

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