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BrancJtship Earns ISO

Certification From BV

Brandtship U.S.A., Inc. has been certified by Bureau Veritas Quality

International (NA) Inc. as meeting all the requirements of the ISO 9002 standard as shipbrokers, ship man- agers and agents.

The company, established 25 years ago, started operation in the

New York area and moved in 1988 to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Its main areas of operation are in the forest products industry, container ves- sels and in the movement of anhy- drous ammonia in LPG carriers, as well as involvement in numerous other commodities. The company can be reached at tel: (305) 525- 8831; fax: (305) 525-9181.

Port Allen Yard Becomes 15th In Trinity Group

Eastern Enterprises reported that ts subsidiary, Midland Enterprises nc., recently sold its Louisiana arge construction and repair facil- ;y, Port Allen Marine Service, to 'rinity Industries Inc., making it le 15th yard in the Trinity Marine roup.

Trinity agreed to reserve barge instruction capacity for Midland's iture requirements and deliver new irges at competitive prices for an idisclosed period of time. Eastern so stated that it expects to record small gain on the sale of the Port len facility in its second quarter 94 earnings, scheduled to be re- ised in late July.

Eastern Enterprises Chairman d CEO J. Atwood Ives said the msaction would allow Eastern to :over on an underutilized asset ;hout sacrificing barge construc- i rights, while giving Trinity a it-class facility to increase its ca- nity.

Eastern Enterprises is a holding lpany with revenues of more than )illion and three businesses: Bos-

Gas Company, a natural gas ;ributor; Midland Enterprises , an inland barge operator; and -erPro Supplies, a water and tewater systems distributor.

Trinity Marine Group includes hipyards in the U.S. and pro- s a variety of ship, barge and construction and repair ser-

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Chowgule Steamships as part of a $27 million loan syndication. Be- sides the loans, International Fi- nance added that it is taking a 10 percent equity stake in Chowgule for $5 million.

Chowgule's existing fleet com- prises 11 bulk carriers totaling 310,229-dwt. Its expansion program includes the acquisition of two to three more bulk carriers for inter- national transport of dry bulk com- modities, according to International

Finance.

Marine Terminals Corp. To

Operate Oakland Terminal

Marine Terminals Corp. (MTC) will operate Oakland's Seventh

Street Marine Container Terminal for the next 10 years under a new management agreement that, re- portedly for the first time, commits a terminal operator to a major facil- ity improvement program.

The three-berth, 56-acre termi- nal serves some of the port's largest container carriers, including the transpacific services of Hanjin,

Hyundai and Yangming. It ac- counted for 136,000, more than 10 percent, of the total number of TEUs the Oakland port handled in 1993.

The pact calls for San Francisco- based MTC to build a $5 million terminal gate and related infrastruc- ture. Now in design by the Oak- land-based engineering and archi- tectural firm of Jordan-Woodman-

Dobson, the 10-lane complex will make extensive use of computer and video technology to speed the move- ment of containers and other cargo on and off the wharves. Construc- tion is expected to start in October and be completed early next year.

MTC's investment will be repaid over the life of the agreement. As reimbursement for the improve- ments, MTC will receive an addi- tional 2.5 percent of gross tariff dockage and wharfage fees from new activity generated at the facil- ity.

Steamers Buys

Containership From Gigi

Shipping For $20 Million

Steamers Maritime Holdings

Ltd., a member of the Keppel Group, has acquired a new containership for about $20 million from Gigi Ship- ping, a U.S. subsidiary of the Rus- sian Sovcomflot Group, and will charter it to Danish shipping group

A.P. Moller.

The new generation, 12,500-dwt

RW49-B183 ship had just been de- livered to Gigi in April from a Polish shipyard. The vessel has a top speed of 18 knots and is equipped with two 40-ton cranes and 90 reefer points. Classed by Germanischer

Lloyd, the vessel is designed for one-man bridge operation. Upon delivery, the ship will commence on a nine-month charter with further options. To be renamed Maersk

Miami, she will trade between ports on the east coasts of the U.S. spnd

South America.

This is the second vessel acquired by Steamers as part of a major new initiative to invest in container feeder ships for trade in the charter market. In April, the company pur- chased a six-year-old ship with an existing charter.

Steamers is raising $67 million through a one-for-four rights issue of shares and convertible loan stock to finance company expansion.

Keppel Unit Wins Tanker

Contracts

Kepphil Shipyard Inc., a member of the Keppel Group, has secured a contract to build two clean product tankers for Tevban Marine Corpo- ration of the Philippines for $6 mil- lion each, inclusive of machinery and equipment supplied by the owner.

Each will have a tank capacity of 6,000-cu.-m. to accommodate 5,000 tons of petroleum products. Mea- suring 328 ft. (100 m) long, with a molded width of 50.8 ft. (15.5 m) and molded depth of 24.6 ft. (7.5 m), they will each be powered by a single screw 2,800-bhp engine. One tanker is slated for delivery in the second quarter of 1995, and the other three months later. The hulls, machinery and equipment will be classed by the

American Bureau of Shipping with a notation of + A1 (E) Oil Carriers +

AMS for unrestricted service.

Kepphil recently delivered an 8,000-dwt fuel oil barge to Far East

Levingston Shipbuilding (FELS)

Ltd. of Singapore and is completing a synchrolift platform for a dock- yard in Kwajelein in the South Pa- cific. It is also scheduled to begin fabrication of two container cranes for International Container Services, and a floating crane for Petron.

The yard's current $1.5 million in shiprepair activities include steel- work renewal of the log carrier

Andhika Asoko; tank blasting of the tanker Gomburza\ hatch cover re- pair of the containership Lorcon

Mindanao-, and tank top renewal of cargo vessel Eastern Jupiter.

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Id Bank Approves $42 on In Financing For /ygule e World Bank's International

Lee Corp. approved a $42 mil- nancing package for Chowgule iships Ltd. of Bombay, India, led to back the company's ac- ion of modern and fuel-effi- /essels. irnational Finance, which is >rld Bank's private sector arm, /iding a $15 million loan to t, 1994 Circle 272 on Reader Service Card 67