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ScanMarine Celebrates Founding With New Contracts

ScanMarine Group of Sweden AB has recently celebrated its fifth anniversary with the completion of two contracts for SweFerry, located in Helsingborg, Sweden. Work on the car/passenger/train ferry M/S

Aurora involved updating the ves- 1980s. In 1995, ScanMarine also fulfilled contracts for other promi- nent maritime interests, including: fire and sound insulation work for a Chinese owner at Mathias

Thesen Werft GmbH MTW in

Germany; management and super- vision work for high-speed megay- acht monohull constructed by

Samsung Heavy Industries Co.

Ltd. in Korea; and involvement in interior planning, installation and delivery of materials for a Russian research vessel under contract with Oresundsvarvet AB, Celsius

Industrier, Sweden.

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Circle 52 on Reader Service Card Pictured is a side view of ScanMarine yard dock facilities.

The interior shell of a ScanMarine production dock. sel's interior areas, including work on the vessel's money exchange area, specifically, the installation of security measures. Scan-

Marine's contract for the M/F

Trelleborg — a ferry similar in function to the Aurora — involved demolition, rebuilding and instal- lation of new units — including the vessel's reception area, office and archives.

The company has great faith in the refit and newbuild market, according to chairman S.H.

Sorensen, and is reportedly involved in the first Swedish civil newbuilding project for a Swedish owner at a Swedish yard since the slowdown experienced in the

Sonardyne Installs SIPS On

Second Seismic Vessel

Sonardyne Ltd., U.K., has installed its Seismic Integrated

Positioning System (SIPS) of PGS

Exploration's Ramform Challenger.

The vessel was recently completed at Langstein Shipyard, Norway.

Ramform Challenger is the second of the seismic exploration vessels with a special triangular hull to be built for PGS exploration. The first was the Ramform Explorer, which also had a Sonardyne SIPS acoustic positioning system installed.

Ramform Challenger is config- ured to tow as many as 16 stream- ers in an array that can be up to half a mile wide. The precise posi- tion of the streamers along their lengths of over 3 km must be moni- tored at all times. PGS called on

Sonardyne to further develop SIPS to meet the demanding require- ments of this configuration.

SIPS, which won the Queen of

England's Award for Technological

Achievement in 1994, is already reportedly in service on 80 percent of the world's 3-D seismic fleet.

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At Jeffboat we've been building double-skin tank barges since 1942-long before governmental regula- tions mandated them. You see, we've always had a commitment to building the highest quality, most durable barges we can. Which means, we take the time to build our barges with wheelabrated steel, sturdy epoxy coating systems, and, of course, double-skin hulls.

No wonder Ashland Petroleum

Company, the nation's largest transporter of petroleum on the inland waterways, chose us to build 68 new, state-of-the-art tank barges for its fleet. For more infor- mation about our quality-built tank barges, including our competitive prices, give us a call at 812-288-0200.

Whether you want a standard design or have your own specs, we can build what you need. After all, we've been doing it for over 50 years.

America's largest inland shipbuilder.

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