Page 12: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (April 1997)

MARINE FINANCE — CONTRACTS

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Singmarine Clinches $12 M

Contract

On Feb. 3, Singmarine Industries

Ltd., to be renamed Keppel Marine^

Industries Ltd., announceji-^th^ award of a $12 million nj^wbuiV ing contract from repeat custoj/elj

PT Freeport of Indonesia.

Subsidiary Singmarine Dockyard and Engineering Pte. Ltd. will reportedly construct a\5,000-dwt copper concentrate, sel^unloading barge whichiA expected to be com- pletedvik the,>e6ond quarter of lOther instruction work current- ly\mderway at the yard includes an 8,000-dwt self-unloading coal/oil barge and two, 5,000-bhp pusher tugs, both for PT Freeport.

Other contracts include two coastal tankers for FT Everand &

Sons and two harbor tugs for

Keppel Smit Towage Pte. Ltd. In addition, a supply training vessel was recently delivered to the

United Arab Emirates' Lamnalco

Ltd.

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Kockums Announces Tribon

Contracts

Massachusetts Heavy Industries,

Inc., a new commercial shipyard in

Boston's South Shore city of

Quincy, has reportedly purchased the initial design, hull, work preparation, complete outfitting ^jplife^ons df

Kockums' www.ti.com/thermal

German owner Rickmers has reportedly decided to outfit its lat- est series of 2,200-TEU container- ships — six in all, which are build- ing at China Shipbuilding Corp. — with dual MAN B&W 7S70MC diesels as main propulsion units and dual 5L28/32H auxiliary engines. Each 668-ton main engine has a 70-cm bore and wjiL yield 20,880 kW at 95 rpm, Both the main and gLUxilidEy angines ^ btnH/by^icenffefe Hyundai

Industries in Kor^a. atlflitj^fcr""'^ Litton-Sperrj s contracted to its Vision 2100 integrated sys^ffi fof"T^ie ship jserie§. fhe pri^cjpaL equipiapnt^BcheSulea for installation 4jiClucfes the Sperry

Voyages-Management System VT containing a navigation station/ECDIS, ARPA radars, gyrocompass, autopilot and steer- ing control system and dual-axis speed log.

For more information on

MAN B&W Diesel

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Fincantieri Newbuilds Will

Feature GE Turbines

Four GE LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines have been ordered for use on two MDV 3000 fast ferries building in Italy in Fincantieri for

Tirrenia Lines in Naples. The two

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Korea's

Industrial Co. , Hitachi Zosen

Singapore Ltd. and Netherlands- based Van Dam Marine

Contracting B.V.

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MAN B&W Engines, Sperry

IBS Specified For

Containership Series

Maritime Reporter/Engineering News