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Halter To Fabricate Substructure For

Transocean Offshore

TDI-Halter, Inc. has been awarded a con- tract from Transocean Offshore, Inc. to build the substructure for Discoverer

Enterprise, an ultra-deepwater drillship currently under construction in Spain.

Halter's Equitable Shipyards will build the approximately 130 x 80 x 67 ft. (39.6 x 24.4 x 20.4 m) substructure, which will then be assembled at Halter's Pascagoula shipyard.

The $5 million, 1,200-ton substructure is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 1998 and will be used for dual drilling operations. It will feature two rotary drilling tables and drawworks. Discoverer

Enterprise, which is committed to a long- term contract with Amoco, will be brought to the U.S. for topside outfitting during the second quarter of 1998 and will subsequent- ly go to work in the Gulf of Mexico. When delivered, it will reportedly be the first of the ultra deepwater drillships to be commis- sioned and will be capable of working in water depths up to 10,000 ft.

Baltimore Marine Completes Ship

Repair

Baltimore Marine Industries, Inc. has completed its first major ship repair job ahead of schedule and under budget.

Cruise ship Royal Majesty arrived at the yard in Sparrows Point, Md., on Ocober 28 for service that included drydocking, repair of structural damage, blasting and painting of the hull. The vessel will be renamed

Norwegian Majesty after its sale by Majesty

Cruise Line to Norwegian Cruise Line.

Work on the ship was completed on

November 6, one day ahead of schedule.

SES And ABS Reach Agreement

Shipmanagement Expert Systems S.A. (SES) and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) have reached an agreement linking their products ABS SafeNet and SES Q-

Control, The Preventive Planned

Maintenance, The Survey Status and The

Operations Logs modules.

This new concept is designed to offer the shipping industry quality fleet manage- ment. It is also designed to provide a cost- efficient basis for ISM Code compliance and conformity, as well as assistance in auditing for the issuing and renewal of ISM certifica- tion.

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Litton Wins Samsung Contract

Litton Marine Systems has received an order for four integrated bridge systems from Samsung Heavy Industries.

The systems will be installed on four new

ABS classed 308,500 dwt VLCCs under con- struction at Samsung for Chevron Shipping

Company.

The first four systems are scheduled for delivery between 1998 and 1999, and the contract includes options for two additional ships. Under the contract, each ship will be fitted with a Sperry Vision 2100 integrated bridge system.

The bridge installation will include a

Sperry VMS VT voyage management sys- tem (electronic chart display and voyage data recorder), Decca BridgeMaster VT radars and Sperry gyros, autopilots, steer- ing controls and speed logs. The communi- cations suite will consist of a Sperry 600

Watt A3 GMDSS station.

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Hitachi Zosen Tapped For Three

VLCCs, Two Panamax Carriers

Hitachi Zosen Corp. has received an order for three 300,000 dwt, double hull VLCCs from Golden Ocean Group. Each vessel will have a scantling draft of 69 ft. (21.1 m) and will be capable of carrying 2.1 million bar- rels of crude oil.

Powered by a Hitachi Zosen-MAN-B&W 7S80MC main diesel engine and equipped with the Hitachi Zosen Super Stream Duct (SSD) at the stern, the VLCCs have high propulsion efficiency and energy-saving capability.

In addition, Hitachi Zosen has received orders for two Panamax Jumbo bulk carri- ers — one from Millennium Shipping Corp. and one from Power Transportation Corp.

The vessels will be constructed at the com- pany's Mizuru Works and will be operated by overseas clients represented by

Lykiardopulo & Co. Ltd. These bulk carri- ers will feature more than 75,000 dwt and cargo volume of approximately 89,400 cu. m.

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Philadelphia Gear Wins Avondale

Contract

Philadelphia Gear has been selected by

Avondale Shipyard to supply the main reduction gears for the LPD-17 class ves- sels.

The reduction gears are similar to the

LSD-41 class reduction gears previously fur- nished by Philadelphia Gear and will be used to combine power from two 10,400 hp diesel engines to a controllable pitch pro- peller.

Two reduction gears are required for each ship, and the class size is set at 12 ships.

Deliveries are scheduled for October 1999 through 2006.

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