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MES Delivers Vessels,

Receives Order

Fhe 135,000-cu.-m, LNG carrier Ghansha.

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuild- ing Co., Ltd. (MES) has recently delivered an oil tanker, London

Glory, to London and Overseas

Freighters Limited, and an LNG i&rxier,Ghasha, to Ghashi Inc. The }il tanker is the fifth double hull

Suezmax type tanker built by MES, j sister to the London Pride, deliv- ered in July 1993. Ghansha is the ;hird LNG of a four-vessel series aeing built by MES for the trans-

Dort of liquefied natural gas from \bu Dhabi to Japan.

MES was also recently awarded in order for a set of educational/ ;raining equipment for the

Surabaya Rating School in Indone- sia. The order was placed by the

Directorate General of Sea Com- nunication of the Indonesian Min- stry of Communications through :he Tomen Corporation. The project s financed under the Japanese government's official development issistance scheme, and served by he Overseas Shipbuilding Coop- eration Center of Japan as consult- ing The Surabaya Rating School is )ne of Indonesia's core schools for raining ratings and coasting offic- es. MES will provide the following squipment: navigation aids; sur- vival training equipment; irefighting equipment; deck de- jartment equipment; engine de- jartment equipment; as well as >ther teaching aids.

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DMI) in order to create a full-ser-r ice diesel facility in Norfolk, Va., mown as DMI Norshipco USA. >Iorshipco's investment in an au- onomous machine shop/diesel re- onditioning facility has been com- lined with DMI's technological ex- terience and fully trained diesel ervice mechanics. The facility is quipped with a complete rotary lard chromium plating system and

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July, 1995

PBI Delivers Boom-Handling

Boats; Offers Sturgeon Bay

Yard For Sale

Peterson Builders, Inc. (PBI) re- cently delivered four 24-ft. 7.3-m), aluminum-hulled boom handling boats (BHBs) to the Naval Sea Sys- tems Command of the U.S. Navy.

These pollution control craft repre- sent a new market segment for PBI.

PBI is presently completing the constriction of the 42-ft. (12.8 m) aluminum PCC patrol craft and re- cently delivered 11 glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) LCPLs. Both of these projects were also contracted for by the Naval Sea Systems Command.

PBI has been actively engaged in the construction of patrol craft for the U.S. Navy and international customers for many years. PBI has designs for patrol craft ranging from 26 ft. (8 m) to 187 ft. (57 m) in length, having hulls constructed of alumi- num, steel or GRP, with speeds in excess of 50 knots.

PBI recently announced that the shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., is being offered for sale, and that the owners are willing to consider joint ventures, partnerships and other business opportunities to utilize the facilities and workforce.

PBI will complete all work pres- ently in process or under contract at the Sturgeon Bay facility.

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