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Keep Your Cargo

On The Level.

Accurately. Reliably. Affordably.

With a Bergan CargoRadar microwave tank level gauging system, you never have to enter the tank, discharge the cargo, or clean the tank if the equipment ever needs servicing. And that saves you time and money.

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Dolphin Titan 110 was brought ashore for horizontal welding and repair work on its four 190-ft. (58- m) legs.

Alabama Shipyard, Inc. has had considerable commercial suc- cess to report on both the new- build and repair sides. Its current newbuild workload includes a pair of 16,000-dwt chemical tankers for

Dannebrog Rederi of Denmark; four liftboats for SeaRex of

Louisiana; and four 1,432-TEU containerships for China's

COSCO. To ensure the newbuild- ings pass through the shipyard in an efficient manner, the yard has incorporated numerous upgrades, including a highly automated pipe shop; an enclosed unit blast and coat facility; a steel storage yard with a 30-ton magnet crane sys- tem; a new profile and web shop; and a revamped panel line shop.

On the repair and conversion side, Atlantic Marine Inc. won contracts for Phase III of the con- version of Global Marine Drilling's

Glomar Explorer, which will include 550 tons of steel fabrica- tion. Expected to take five months, the project is scheduled to commence September 15. The yard also won a contract to con- vert tanker Cora to a dynamically positioned early production vessel for Protexa of Mexico. To ensure the yard maintains its repair and conversion excellence, the yard renovated its 50 and 150-ton cranes; upgraded its piers, reno- vated its machine shop building and installed new wingwalls on the small dock.

Atlantic Marine's Jacksonville,

Fla., facility recently launched its thirteenth gaming vessel built in

Pictured is a Kvichak gillnetter built as an enforcement vessel for the Alaska Department of Fish and Wildlife Protection.

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