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Avondale Launches The

Rappahannock

T-AO 204, the 15th in a series of 16 fleet replenishment oilers built by Avondale Industries, Inc. for the

U.S. Navy, has been christened the

Rappahannock. The launching and christening ceremony marked an- other milestone in the Navy's con- tinuing efforts to protect the envi- ronment. Rappahannock is the sec- ond Navy ship designed and con- structed to satisfy the Oil Pollution

Act of 1990 (OPA 90). The vessel is 677.5 ft. long (206.5 m) and has a beam of 97.5 ft. (29.7 m).

For more information on Avondale

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Stolt, RMI In Subsea

Production Pact

Stolt Comex Seaway S. A. and RMI

Titanium Company announced that they have combined their expertise to manufacture and install titanium production risers, flowlines, and other titanium subsea systems. This combination of expertise provides for the marketing, engineering, fab- rication, installation, and pre-com- missioning of titanium subsea pipe- lines, risers and subsea systems.

The latest Stolt Comex Seaway ship, Seaway Falcon, will be equipped for titanium pipe laying installation, with innovative pipe joint technique. Stolt Comex Sea- way and RMI will offer the gas and oil industry this technology for deep water development.

MR&S Awarded $2.5M

USCG Contract

M. Rosenblatt & Son (MR&S) has been awarded a $2.5 million con- tract to continue providing support to the U.S. Coast Guard's Naval

Engineering Division in Washing- ton, D.C. The Naval Engineering

Division provides complete life cycle management of Coast Guard float- ing assets/resources from concept through eventual disposal. MR&S will provide engineering and tech- nical support in studying, analyz- ing, and evaluating engineering designs or problems and their solu- tions. The contract is for a base year and three option years.

For more information on M. Rosenblatt

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Falk Announces New Disc

Coupling Line

The Falk Corporation has an- nounced the addition of new, re- portedly low-maintenance, FDC close-coupled disc couplings to its disc coupling line. Available in in- terference or clearance fits, the manufacturer says that the disc cou- plings are easy to install and ser- vice, and eliminate fretting corro- sion. Designed in both wide-gap and narrow-gap between-hub mod- els, Falk's couplings can be used for retrofitting elastomer, grid, gear, or center plate-design disc couplings.

For more information on Falk Corp.

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Canmar Supplier VII

Changes Hands

Canadian Marine Drilling Ltd. (Canmar) of Alberta sold its 185-ft. (56.39-m), ice-classed tug supply boat Canmar Supplier VII to Ocean

Navigation, Inc. of Quebec. Marcon

International, Inc. acted as the sole broker in the sale.

The vessel will sail down the Pa- cific coast to the Panama Canal and up to eastern Canada, where she will undergo refurbishing and modi- fication to an ice-breaking tug.

Crowley Marine Services

Issued COFR

Crowley Marine Services, Inc. has been issued a Certificate of Finan- cial Responsibility (COFR) by the

USCG, after having met the require- ments for financial responsibility set forth in the regulations imple- menting the OPA 90. The USCG issued individual certificates for 53

Crowley Marine tank vessels used in transporting hazardous materi- als, and a fleet certificate for 75 vessels. Crowley Marine provides specialized marine transportation services, including petroleum prod- uct transportation.

THE

INTERNATIONAL

SHIPPING EXHIBITION

WITH RUSSIA AND THE REPUBLICS

NEVA 95

The business opportunity for shipbuilding, ship equipment, offshore energy, and maritime services, St. Petersburg, 12-16th September, 1995.

NEVA 95 will focus on the real opportunities for increased co-operation and trade in shipping between Russia and all States of the Former Soviet Union with the international maritime market.

THE MAJOR MARKET OPPORTUNITIES IN:- • SHIPBUILDING, REPAIR AND CONVERSION INCLUDING OIL AND GAS

FACILITIES • SHIP AND OFFSHORE EQUIPMENT, MACHINERY AND TECHNOLOGY • SUPPLY AND MAINTENANCE FOR YARDS, SHIPS AND RIGS • MANAGEMENT, REGISTRY, CLASSIFICATION, BROKING SPECIALISTS • BANKING, FINANCE, INSURANCE AND LEGAL SERVICES

THE MAJOR INDUSTRIES ACTIVE AT NEVA 95:- • SHIPBUILDERS OF SEA AND WATERWAY VESSELS • MARINE ENGINEERING AND COMPONENT MANUFACTURERS • OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS FACILITIES AND MACHINERY • PORTS HANDLING AND OPERATING EQUIPMENT

NEVA 95 - Exhibition, Conference, Technical Seminars - provides the most wide-ranging programme of business opportunities with the maritime industries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

For full details contact :-

U. S. A.-Dean Leslie, Room 13, 55th Floor West, Port of New York and New Jersey, One World Trade Center, New York, New York 10048.

Tel: (212) 435-3318 : Fax: (212)435-2905

U. K. - Dolphin Exhibitions, Bildeston, Suffolk.

Tel: +44-1449-741801 : Fax: +44-1449-741628

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