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the two largest ships completed dur- ing 1992 were the sister ships Golar
Stirling and Golar Glasgow, both delivered by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery.
Gross tonnage completed rose in the People's Republic of China to a total of 360,735 gt, while the total for the Republic of China (Taiwan) totalled 698,932 gt.
In Germany, the tonnage com- pleted in 1992 totaled 903,555, with twenty one container ships com- prising 56.4 percent of that total.
The largest of these were the 47,230- dwt Zim Isrel and Zim Hong Kong from HDW.
In all, 35 general cargo ships were delivered, including the 22,986-gt passenger/RoRo cargo ferry Euro- pean Highway from Schichau-
Seebeckwerft.
Finally, in Denmark, completions rose by a total of 155,870 gt to a total of 599,878 gt.
Two tankers were completed dur- ing 1992, the largest delivered by
Odense Staalskibsvaerft A/S, the 289,900-dwt Eleo Maersk. Ore and bulk carriers accounted for 34.3 per- cent of the Danish total.
By vessel type, oil tankers ac- counted for 49.8 percent of all ton- nage completed in 1992, compared with 42.1 percent in 1991 and 32 percent in 1990. Bulk carrier ton- nage dropped by more than 320,000 gt and accounted for 18.1 percent of all tonnage, compared with 23 per- cent in 1991.
The output of general cargo ships rose in 1992, and represented 9.1 percent of the total tonnage com- pleted. The two leading builders in this category were Japan and Ger- many. The completion of container ships totaled2,172,863gt,or263,173 more than in 1991.
Finally, Liquified Gas and Chemi- cal Carriers accounted for 125 ships and 882,656 gt's in 1992.
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Raytheon Company was awarded two separate contracts from the
Department of Defense totaling $74.8 million.
Raytheon's Sudbury, Mass.-based equipment division received a $69 million contract from the Strategic
Systems Program Office for engi- neering support of Trident subma- rine launched ballistic missiles.
The equipment division's
Marlborough, Mass. office won a contract modification worth $5.8 million for studies leading to changes in the AN/USC-38(V) electronics system from the Space and Naval
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General Electric Company has been awarded two Pentagon con- tracts worth a combined $27.4 mil- lion.
GE's government electronic sys- tems division, of Moorestown, N.J., received a $21.5 million Naval Sea
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