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Last Of Five Ro/Ro Ships

Launched At NKK

NKK Corp., a Japanese company involved in steel making and ship building, announced the launching of the last of five Ro/Ro ships to carry sheet steel in the nation's coastal trade.

The fifth vessel, named Shiryu

Maru, is capable of carrying 2,800 tons of cargo and will transport about 30,000 tons of steel coil monthly from NKK's Fukuyama Works to a distribution terminal in Osaka.

American Systems Wins $10.5 Million Navy Contract

American Systems Engineering

Corp., Virginia Beach, Va. was re- cently awarded a $ 10.5 million main- tenance contract by the U.S. Navy.

The maintenance work will be done on Atlantic and Pacific fleet aircraft carriers. The work is ex- pected to be completed by next April.

Shell To Reorganize

Tanker Fleet

The shipping division of Royal

Dutch/Shell Group, Shell Interna- tional Marine Ltd., is planning the reorganization of its tanker fleet.

Shell International is hoping to establish a single organization that will be responsible for Shell's owned and chartered ships, in place of the four divisions that each run their own fleets now.

The proposals follow an earlier decision to further scale down Shell's tanker fleet size to approximately 30 vessels from 42 by 1997.

Shell began reducing its shipping operations because of the high cost of running its own fleet. TheValdez accident prompted further review of Shell's shipping activities.

Shell also has a fleet of 18 LNG carriers, three LPG ships and two coal ships.

To begin the reorganization pro- cess, Shell has sold some million- barrel tankers following its decision not to allow any of its own ships carrying dirty oil to call at U.S. mainland ports since the Valdez spill. The company has also ordered new double-hull product tankers.

Stork Services BV Continues

Diesel Spares Expansion

Stork Services BV, the Dutch sup- plier of diesel engine spares and repair facilities, continues to expand its worldwide organization, having established branch offices in Swe- den and Germany to complement those in the U.K., Greece and

Singapore.

The company recently passed the audit for approval of their quality system according to ISO 9000a for "Repair and Construction of Indus- trial Equipment and Diesel Engine

Components."

July, 1993

Warehousing facilities were moved to the Rotterdam suburb of

Hoogvleit where approximately $11 million in inventory is kept in a newly acquired building of 33,000 sq. ft. Spares for all versions of

B&W 23 & 28 engines were added to the line of Sulzer, B&W and MAN spares offered. For more informa- tion on Stork Services BV,

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CSX Executive Urges

Maritime Reform Policy

A second executive from the ranks of ocean carriers has called for decisive action from President

Clinton and Congress on maritime policy. Duane Cassidy, senior vice president for sales and marketing atCSX Transportation Inc. said that failure to enact maritime reform legislation will cause the loss of a large part of the remaining U.S. maritime industry. The first execu- tive to call for change in maritime policy was W. James Amoss, Jr., chairman of Lykes Bros. Steamship.

The shipping lines claim that if they don't receive annual subsidies of $2.5 million a ship over the next 15 years, they'll have no choice but to build and crew replacement ships overseas.

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