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A series of bulker contracts and exercised options on feeder con- tainerships have filled Taiwan's

China Shipbuilding Corp.'s yards. "We are already fully booked through to the first half of 1999," said David Tien, vice president.

Denmark's AP Moller recently exercised a four-ship option for a set of 1,100-TEU containerships, following the initial six ship order late last year. Last month a pair of

Panamaxes were ordered by

Switzerland's Suisse Atlantique

Societe, reflecting the yard's con- tinuing success with European orders. Singapore's Marinteknik

Shipbuilders has confirmed receipt of a long anticipated order from the Swedish company Jetson

Coast Link for the construction of a 180-ft. (55-m) passenger/car car- rying catamaran. The vessel is due to be delivered by the Singapore yard in the first quarter of next year and enter service in

Scandinavia in May. Profits at

Singapore specialist rig builder

Keppel Fels slumped in the first half due to a lack of job comple- tions. Pre-tax operating profit for the six months was down at $16.1 million, a 19 percent drop from the corresponding period last year.

And Keppel Fels warned: "The results of the second half are like- ly to be lower than those of the first half." Current orders at

Keppel Fels include a semi-sub- mersible harsh-environment drilling rig, Galaxy 2, for U.S. off- shore specialists Sante Fe. This is the second of two sister rigs, and is due for delivery in August 1998. It is also building a 700,000 bbls

Floating Production & Storage

Offshore (FPSO) unit for Norway's

Saga Petroleum, due to leave the yard at the end of this year. This vessel, named Varg FPSO, which will be operating on the Varg Field in the Norwegian sector of the

North Sea, is Tentech 700 design.

Keppel Fels recently completed a

Tentech 850 unit for Norway's

Statoil. Mitsui Ocean

Development (MODEC), the

Japanese offshore engineering company, has been awarded con- tracts worth $300 million for four

FPSO units.

Three companies have awarded the contracts — Australia's BHP

Petroleum, Mexico's state-owned

Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and

Marathon Petroleum Gabon (two contracts), an affiliate of Marathon

Oil. MODEC has slated three of the conversion projects with

Singapore's Jurong Shipyard Ltd. (JSL), which has a long-standing 72 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News