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M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc. Helps Modernize

Cruise Ship Independence

M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., naval architects and marine engineers, has completed the con- tract plans and specifications for the moderniza- tion and renovation of the U.S.-flag cruise ship

SS Independence, being performed at Newport

News Shipbuilding (NNS). The 800-passenger, 680-ft. (207-m), 30,000-ton vessel is operated by

American Hawaii Cruises in the Hawaiian Is- land cruise trade.

The work included new passenger cabins and suites; renovating and enlarging existing pas- senger cabins and public spaces; improved verti- cal access to public spaces with the installation of weather stairways; a new food buffet area, com- plete with galley, scullery and reefer storage; refurbishment of swimming pools; extension of two elevators to the new Sports Deck suites; refurbishing windows and wood decking and adding canopies above the superstructure decks; updating HVAC, lighting, interior communica- tions and plumbing; replacing distillers, air conditioning plants, emergency diesel genera- tor, and various pumps; upgrading the marine sewage system; and renewal or doubling of most of the tank top and "D" deck plating.

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North Atlantic Marine Refurbishes Tug

For Maine Maritime Academy

North Atlantic Marine, Inc. rewired and revi- talized the Maine Maritime Academy tug

Pentagoet located in Castine, Me.

The tug is used in student training by the academy and is used for docking their training vessel the State of Maine and other activities.

North American Marine worked on or re- placed the following systems:

Emergency battery DC systems; power distri- bution systems; all logic systems tied in with steering and air handling units; all constavolt charging systems; power transfer switches; all generation systems, lighting and alarm sys- tems.

All wiring was cleaned and inspected and all new motors and motor starters were rewired.

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Lykes Reaches Agreement With All

Seagoing Unions

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. has report-

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The American Radio Association, District 1/

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District4-NMU/MEBA, and the Masters, Mates &

Pilots have all agree to new contract terms with the company.

Maersk Contributes To SUNY

Maritime College

The State University of New York (SUNY)

Maritime College at Fort Schuyler Foundation has been awarded a $150,000 gift from Maersk Line,

Ltd. to help underwrite the completion of the college's Center for Simulated Maritime Opera- tions (CSMO). CSMO already includes bridge diesel, radar, navigation, and Global Marine Dis tress & Safety Systems (GMDSS) simulators. Witl the addition of an oil spill response simulator, i liquid cargo simulator, and a second pilot house fo its bridge simulator, CSMO is expected to be one c the most comprehensive simulator training cen ters in the Northeast. Used by the cadets at th college, CSMO is also available to maritime induf try employees seeking continuing education c retraining.

Freeport, Texas Becomes Offshore

Activity Center

Transshipment activity at Freeport, Texas just one indication of the Port's emergence as center of offshore, oil-related, semisubmersil and try tow activity. In June, the Dut semisubmersible heavy lift ship Mighty Servar transported two jackup platform rigs, iheAcadi

Spirit and Marine IX, from Freeport, Texas

China and the Yellow Sea. Mighty Servant I, oceangoing, 22,000-ton vessel owned and opera by Wijsmuller Transport BV, required Freepo 65-ft.-deep "sink-hole" to load the structures, late 1993, the huge Shell Auger tension leg drill and production platform (TLP) was towed i

Port Freeport for final hookup and commissior prior to its drilling site installation in the Gu

Mexico. And in April of 1993, Global Ma:

Drilling Co. brought its Glomar High Islana and VIII jackup rigs into Freeport from V

Africa for preparation to work new drilling sit( the Gulf.

Mobile Telesystems Wins Sealift Cont

Mobile Telesystems, Inc. has been awardc largest contract to date by the Military Si

Command (MSC) to supply Inmarsat-C term for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG

MSC vessels.

The contract's award is the culminatior lengthy process that will require M

Telesystems to supply up to 360 Inmarsat-C t nals, as well as provide installation and tra

The units are fitted with integral GPS anc approved for GMDSS.

Mobile Telesystems, Inc. is a leader i design, manufacture, and marketing of Inn communication terminals for marine, trar able and land-mobile markets.

MTI currently has, or has under develoi terminals for Inmarsats A, B, C and M.

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