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Mitsui Engineering &

Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) has completed and delivered 46,645-dwt bulk carrier Asian

Hawk to owner Southern

Route Maritime S.A.

The new handy-size bulker has five cargo holds with a total of four cranes.

This is the tenth sistership of

MES 46,500 dwt-type bulk carriers.

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Asian Hawk main particulars

Length o.a 623 ft. (189.8 m)

Length b.p 594 ft. (I8l m)

Breadth, molded 102 ft.{3l m)

Depth, molded 54 fl.(16.5m)

Draft, molded 38 ft. (11.6 m)

Gross tonnage 27,011

DWT 46,645

Main engine .. .Mitsui-MAN B&W 6S50MC diesel

Speed 17.1 knots

Classification NK

Flag Panama

Keppel Delivers Coastal

Tanker

Keppel Marine Industries subsidiary Keppel Singmarine

Dockyard Pte Ltd. has complet- ed and delivered 3,700-dwt, double-hulled coastal tanker

Audacity to U.K. owner FT

Everard Shipping Ltd.

Audacity is the second of two coastal tankers built by Keppel

Singmarine for this owner. The first, Asperity, was scheduled to be christened last month.

Classed by Lloyd's Register of Shipping with notations +100A1 Double Hull Oil

Tanker, ESP, +LMC, UMS and

SCM, Audacity has a total capacity of 4,250-cu-m in which it will carry clean petroleum products. The new vessel has five deep well centrifugal pumps, each capable of han- dling 550-cu-m of oil product per hour. Audacity has a ser- vice speed of 12.5 knots and has achieved trial speeds of 13.7 knots. The vessel has an over- all length of 290 ft. (88.4 m), with a breadth of 54.5 ft. (16.6 m). The cargo handling and monitoring system is fully com- puterized and controlled from the wheelhouse. Keppel

Singmarine Dockyard is cur- rently building two pusher tugs, a self-unloading coal/oil barge and a self-unloading cop- per concentrate barge for

Indonesian interest PT

Freeport. Also, two tugs for

Keppel Smit Towage are sched- uled for delivery this year.

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