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Kopphil Shipyard Clindios $6 Million In Now Contracts

Kepphil Shipyard Inc., a mem- ber of Singapore's Keppel Group, has clinched contracts worth about $6 million for steel fabrication and shipbuilding.

The yard is fabricating a steel synchrolift platform for civil con- struction company H.B. Zachry Co. of the U.S. to be installed in a dock- yard in Kwajalein in the South Pa- cific. Construction began in April and is expected to be completed by the middle of this year.

The platform, measuring 180 feet (55 m) by 83 feet (25.3 m), is being fabricated in Kepphil's yard in

Labuan, Batangas Province using 500 tons of special grade steel.

Kepphil is also designing and building a fuel oil storage barge for

Far East Levingston Shipbuilding

Limited of Singapore. The barge, with a capacity of 50,000 barrels of oil, will store fuel to be used by a power plant for power generation.

It has a pumping capacity of 125- cu.-m. per hour and will include modern safety and pollution control systems. The vessel is expected to be delivered in May.

The company has also won the bidding to build a floating crane with a 35-ton capacity for Petron, a subsidiary of Philippine National

Oil Corp. The floating crane will be used at the Petron Refinery on

Bataan island. The contract is sched- uled for completion at the end of the year. Kepphil, in cooperation with sister company Keppel Engineering

Pte. Ltd., is also fabricating two container handling cranes for In- ternational Container Terminal Ser- vices, operator of the Philippines' largest container port, Manila In- ternational Container Port.

MarAd News • Mormac Marine Transport, Inc. asked the Maritime Administration (MarAd) for permission to pur- chase the stock of Moran Towing

Corp. Mormac Marine Transport is a subsidiary of Mormac Marine

Group. Mormac needs the approval for the acquisition of Moran for the brief period of time remaining un- der the terms of Mormac's Operat- ing-Differential Subsidy Agree- ments, which will terminate in De- cember 1995, June 1996 and Febru- ary 1997. • MarAd has approved three sec- tion 9 applications: -Evening Star, Inc., Petersburg,

Alaska, received permission to transfer the fishing vessel Evening

Star to Russian registry. - Atlantic Pacific Marine Corp.,

Houston, Texas, received approval to transfer two drilling barges,

APMC Rig 11 and APMC Rig 14, to

Venezuelan registry, without change in their U.S. ownership. — Sondenfjeldske Energy KS, a

Norwegian limited partnership, has received approval to sell the

Liberian drilling unit Sonat DF-87 to Dual 87, Inc., a Delaware corpo- ration, but not a citizen within the meaning of section two of the Ship- ping Act, 1916, as amended.

Its Liberian registry would not change. • MarAd received an application from Gulfcoast Transit Co. for tem- porary written consent under sec- tion 506 of the Merchant Marine

Act, 1936, as amended, to transfer the Janis Guzzle to the domestic coastwise trade for not more than six months in the aggregate during 1994.

The vessel was built with the aid of construction differential subsidy.

In its application, Gulfcoast said it currently provides coastwise transportation for its affiliate com- pany, Tampa Electric Co., under a long-term contract for the move- ment of coal from the New Orleans,

La. area to Tampa, Fla.

The tug/barge use in the coastwise trade will depend on its availability, its customer's require- ments and the scheduled mainte- nance on its tugs, barges and tug/ barge units utilized in its coal/phos- phate operations. • MarAd has given approval to M.K.

Fisheries, Inc., Burlington, Wash, to transfer the fishing vesselBering

Empire to Russian registry.

June, 1994 "Gladding-Hearn was the only builder willing to guarantee 27 knots with just two engines." Captain Marc Brent, Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co.

Gladding-Hearn has built over 300 commercial vessels. Our first boat, built in 1955, is still in use today. And, our latest passenger vessel is ex- pected to revolutionize the whale watch business.

It takes experience to integrate custom detail- ing and reliable speeds, backed by dependable customer service. All at a price you can afford.

If you're looking to build a new boat or upgrade an old one, we can offer complete design and construction from fireboats to high-speed ferries, carrying 49 or more passengers.

Call George Duclos at (508) 676-8596,

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Somerset,

MA 02726.

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