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Jean-Paul Brillaud Elected

Inmarsat Council Chairman

Jean-Paul Brillaud of France has been elected chairman of the

Inmarsat Council for the coming year.

Mr. Brillaud succeeds Richard

K. T. Fong of Singapore whose term ended with the council's recent 45th meeting in London.

Inmarsat, a 67-member-country cooperative, operates a global sys- tem of satellites to provide mobile communications for maritime, aero- nautical and land mobile users worldwide. The Inmarsat Council, which normally meets three times a year, comprises delegates from those organizations appointed by major

Inmarsat member countries to rep- resent their interests in Inmarsat.

Mr. Brillaud is currently head of the Satellite Communications Policy

Division at France Telecom. With a background in engineering, Mr.

Brillaud has been with the organi- zation since 1973.

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Ingalls Plans Tanker Using

Curved Plate Construction

Ingalls Shipbuilding, the

Pascagoula-based subsidiary of

Litton Industries, is in agreement with Marinex International of New

Jersey to prepare a design package for the bow and stern sections of a 324,000-dwt crude carrier type.

The tanker class, known as the

Marc Guardian, incorporates slightly curved steel plate in place of flat plate. The curved plate has been developed by Marinex in con- junction with shipyard operator

Metro Machine Corporation of Nor- folk, Va., which has reportedly in- vested $2 million in research and development on the Marc Guardian tanker project.

The curved plate construction is less complex than preceding plates and is aimed at making U.S. ship- building more competitive interna- tionally.

Metro Machine is planning to build and coat double-skinned sec- tions 50 feet long for the parallel body. These sections would then be fabricated to close tolerances by highly-automated equipment in cli- mate-controlled cubicles.

Ingalls is planning to design and construct the bow and stern sections at its Pascagoula yard in Missis- sippi.

Metro-built midbodies will then be joined to the foreship and after sections transferred from Ingalls.

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VLCCs from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Heavy Machinery of South Korea.

ICB Shipping is the first Euro- pean operator to place an order for

VLCCs this year.

The first vessel is scheduled for delivery at the end of 1994, and the second for the first half of 1995. The second vessel will be equipped with a double hull.

ICB reportedly believes that low newbuilding activity and reduction of fleet by scrapping will create the conditions for a better freight mar- ket beginning in 1994.

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H-DIL Wins Canadian Coast

Guard Contract

Halifax-Dartmouth Industries

Limited (H-DIL) has won the con- tract for work on the Canadian Coast

Guard vessel Sir William Alexander.

The work on the vessel includes sand blasting, painting, mooring equipment overhaul, rudder and pro- peller inspections, as well as gen- eral mandatory inspections.

The Sir William Alexander is a buoy tender/icebreaking vessel which is based in Halifax. It was last in Halifax Shipyard in June 1992, when work was done on the propeller.

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ICB Shipping Orders Two

VLCCs

ICB Shipping of Sweden has placed an order for two 290,000-dwt

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