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SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION

Overseas Washington is shown at Cascade General.

Circle 321 on Reader Service Card dwt Keystone Canyon, and 165,073-dwt

Brooks Range, all these tankers are available for FPSO/FSU conversions.

On the general repair side, the yard has recently drydocked Gearbulk's 38,771-dwt Bahamas-registered bulk carrier Raven Arrow for grounding dam- age repairs.

Another area of operations is naval work, Cascade General, part of a consor- tium of shipyards (including Newport

News Shipbuilding, Ingalls Shipbuilding and Detyens, Charleston), which has a 10-year contract with VSE Corp,

Washington D.C., to carry out work onboard laid-up naval ships, being sold to ally countries under the Military

Sales Program. Currently, the yard is carrying out such work onboard former

U.S. Navy frigate Ouellet, which will be delivered to the Thai Navy during next year. The contract is worth some $14 million to Cascade General.

Seattle

Holland America Lines' (HAL) 33,933- grt cruiseship Noordam was recently in

Seattle's Todd Pacific shipyard, part of the Todd Corp. This is the third HAL cruiseship repaired by the yard during this year — 55,451-grt Veendam was completed in May and the 33,930-grt

Nieuw Amsterdam in September.

The 55,451-grt Ryndam is due in May next year. All these vessels have now been upgraded to the latest SOLAS reg- ulations.

Todd Pacific, the last remaining yard of the once very large Todd network of yards throughout the U.S., operates three floating docks, the largest of which — Emerald Sea — has a lifting capacity of approximately 40,000 tons.

The yard recently purchased, on auc- tion, a dock from Gianotti Shipyard,

Tacoma, which has now closed. The lift- ing capacity of this dock is approximate- ly 16,500 tons, the same as No. 1 dock already in operation at Todd Pacific.

According to Roland Webb, CEO at

Todd Shipyards, the yard operates in three distinct markets - newbuildings (three double-ended ferries are currently on order from Washington State Ferries (WSF) (see related story on page 25, this edition); large scale refit and conversion work, which includes SOLAS work onboard cruiseships and naval and

Coast Guard work; and Jones Act and domestic repair work.

Newbuilding accounts for approxi- mately 40 percent of the yard's turnover;

Navy work, six percent; and internation- al shiprepair, 10 percent. The remain- der is Jones Act and domestic work.

An example of the domestic work is the 26,674-dwt Matson Navigation-owned containership Manulani, which was recently in the yard for fire damage repairs, the yard's newbuilding capabili- ty being used to rebuild parts of the ves- sel's cargo hold system and hatch covers, damaged in the fire.

This Matson contract followed a 70 tons steel renewal contract on a Matson- owned Integrated Tug/Barge System (ITB). U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker

Polar Sea is due at the yard to undergo a three month refit. Another ship recently in the yard is the 18,202-dwt

U.S.-registered RoRo vessel Westward

Venture.

Vancouver

Canada's Vancouver Shipyards, part of the Seaspan Group, currently operates

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