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SEACOR Places Order For

Halter-Built AHTS Vessels

SEACOR Holdings, Inc. announced that SEACOR Marine,

Inc. has signed a contract with

Halter Marine Group, Gulfport,

Miss., for the construction of two, 225-ft. (68.5-m) anchor handling/towing supply (AHTS) vessels.

The value of the project is expect- ed to be approximately $45 million, and delivery of the vessels is scheduled for the second half of 1997.

The vessels will be flagged in

U.S. registry, and will support deepwater drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Each vessel will be powered by four EMD 16- 645-F7B engines driving two CP propellers, developing a bollard pull of approximately 155 metric tons.

Anchor handling equipment will include a Smatco winch with 500 tons of line pull and two drums, each capable of holding 10,000 ft.

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The vessels will have a maximum design draft of 22 ft. (6.7 m), and a weight of 2,800 DWT, with below deck capabilities which include 10,300-cu.-ft. of bulk cement and 3,000 barrels of liquid mud.

SEACOR provides offshore marine transportation primarily in support of oil and gas explo- ration and development in the

Gulf of Mexico, North Sea and

West Africa. SEACOR also pro- vides environmental services to the energy and maritime indus- tries through subsidiary National

Response Corp. (NRC).

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Singmarine Clinches $12 M

Keppel Smit Contract

Singmarine Industries Ltd. (Singmarine), through its wholly- owned subsidiary Singmarine

Dockyard & Engineering Pte.

Ltd., has clinched a $12-million contract to build two harbor tugs for Keppel Smit Towage Pte. Ltd.

Each 98.4-ft. (30-m) tug will be powered by two, 2,000 bph diesel engines, with bollard pulls in excess of 50 tons.

Delivery is scheduled for the third quarter of 1997.

The tugboats will be built to ABS classification with a notation of

Maltese Cross A1 Circle E.

Singmarine Dockyard has sup- plied Keppel with four previous harbor tugs, which are now in charter in regional waters.

Singmarine is also currently building two coastal tankers for

U.K.-based FT Everard & Sons, and a supply vessel for United

Arab Emirates interest Lamnalco

Ltd.

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Correction

In the August edition of MR/EN, it was mistakenly reported that

Kinsman Condor, Kinsman Eagle and Kinsman Venture are owned by Hvide Marine. In fact, the ves- sels are owned by Bay

Transportation Co.

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