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SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION U.S. Northwest: Shiprepair Activity Picks Up

Portland's Cascade General, one of the emergent yards in the U.S. shiprepair industry, recently com- pleted repairs to RCCL's 78,491- grt cruise ship Rhapsody of the

Seas. One of the vessel's main electric propulsion motors had to be replaced and tanktop work was needed, as part of guarantee work carried out following the delivery of the ship from France's

Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St

Nazaire.

This RCCL contract, which is classed as an emergency repair, followed the first RCCL repair con- tract won by Cascade General, involving the 40,132-grt Viking

Serenade, carried out earlier this year.

Cascade General, which is expected to have a record turnover this year of some $120 million, has also won other follow-on contracts in the cruise market. This was clearly seen following the ground- ing damage repair of P&O's 63,524-grt Star Princess, now renamed Arcadia, during 1996, and the 1997 repairs of 46,087-grt

Sky Princess (April) and 77,441-grt

Sun Princess (September), both repaired at the Oregon yard.

Approximately 45 percent of the yard's turnover involves tankers on the Alaskan trade. For this type of work, the yard has formed strategic alliances with such oper- ators as BP, Keystone, Chevron and SeaRiver Maritime.

Recently under repair was the 91,967-dwt MOC-operated

Overseas Washington. Alaskan trade tankers repaired or due dur- ing the winter period include: 138,698-dwt OMI Columbia-, 71,340-dwt Chevron Mississippi, and two from Sea/River Maritime, 214,853-dwt S/R Long Beach and 152,298-dwt S/R North Slope.

There are also three tankers for

Mormac due, the 50,116-dwt

Chesapeake Trader, 50,860-dwt

Potamac Trader and 50,057-dwt

Delaware Trader.

The yard has also recently com- pleted the first phase of the con- version of drillship Global

Explorer, which is now in Atlantic

Marine, Mobile, for the second phase of the conversion.

This experience with drillships has led to the yard offering a tanker, currently laid-up in the yard to a number of drillship oper- ators as a possible conversion can- didate. The tanker involved is

SeaRiver Maritime's 78,620-dwt

S/R Philadelphia. This is also the case with four larger tankers cur- rently laid-up in Portland, 165,073-dwt Thompson Pass, 152,405-dwt Atigan Pass, 125,000-

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