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Ship Orders For Export

Drop Ij/Korea

The^ Korea Shipbuilders^

Association reported that South

Korean shipbuilders received orders for 142 ships weighing 6.9 mi lion gt from overseas last year, do ra 2.8 percent from the previous ye; r. In 1995, South Korean ship- bu lders received orders for 194 vessels weighing 7.13 million gt, up 11.9 percent from 1994.

FE .S' Quick Work Promise

Is Deal

Repairs to an oil drilling rig that partlyN. collapsed in South

Austral! a\Gulf Saint Vincent will be repaired at FELS in Singapore.

The owner hacrveportedly received a competitive Vbid from an

Australian comnany, however

FELS could repontedly complete the repairs sooner.J

New Atlantic/Jcean

Container afervice

Consortium Launched

Kawareaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd.,

Chin/ Ocean Shipping Co. (C09C0) and Yang Ming Marine

Transport Corp. of Taiwan will reportedly form a consortium to launch a%weekly Atlantic Ocean container ssu'vice, marking the first time an\ of the three will operate an Atlamtic route.

Four 2,000-TBU containerships are scheduled tJ service the route.

Acord Joins Trico Board

Trico Marine Services announced that H£K. (Kent) Acord, recently retired executive vice president,

International, for Mobil Oil

Corporation's Exploration and

Production Division, has been elected the company's board of directors. He replaces Carl

Ferenbach Mio resigned from the board to de\rote more time to

Berkshire Partners' ongoing investment activities. Mr. Acord has more thaV 40 years of experi- ence in tbj^nergy industry, pri- marily ir^ne international arena.

EC Ofcs Peene Werft Aid

The European iSommission (EC) has approved DJVll 30.6 million in aid to cover the Mpenses of mas- sive staff reduc™n and disman- tling of old ferities during the

February, 1997 restructuring of Peene Werft, an east German shipyard situated in

Wolgast Mecklenburg-

Vorpommern. This aid is the final part of the restructuring aid pack- age that was deemed necessary at privatization in he invest- menfcj^or thejm^al conversion of this formSF*f!rDR naval yard were virtually completed in 1995. lnmarsat-3 F3 Enters Service

Personal mobile satellite phone service became available for tho§ who do business, live < the beaten track Wfjrie *^cifii

Ocean region. ThP^nuTl s^fcgjfite in the Inmarsat-3 series entered service on Saturday, January 25.

Inmarsat-3 F3 joins two other sim- ilar satellites already in operation, and reportedly extends to about 95 percent of the world's land-mass that benefits from the new person- al ary^-pfrjonl^service. The sp3c^aifatto\tjos® capacity for nmarsat's other commercial mar- itime, aeronautical and land- mobile communications systems.

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