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SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION three repair facilities in the

Vancouver area; a 1,500-tons lift- ing capacity Syncrolift and a

Panamax floating dock in

Vancouver port, and a 100,000-dwt capacity graving dock at Victoria, which is leased on a ship by ship basis from the British Columbian government by Victoria Shipyard, also part of the Seaspan Group.

However, due to the pressure of work currently being handled by the various facilities, the yard is looking to lease another facility.

The facility in question is a 430 x 150 ft. (131 x 48.8 m), 30,000 tons lifting capacity unit, which was owned until recently by Canadian

Maritime (CanMar) and used in the Alaskan offshore industry.

The CanMar Careen Dock was recently sold to Norway's Sea

Tankers, part of the Fredriksen

Group and this is where the prob- lem for Vancouver Shipyard lies.

To lease the facility, a tax would have to be paid to the Canadian

Federal government, as the facility is now foreign-registered.

Negotiations are currently under- way between the yard and the gov- ernment to have this tax waived.

If this is achieved, Vancouver

Shipyards will lease the unit on an on-going 90-day basis.

The yard is currently solely involved in the general repair mar- ket with grounding damage repairs being high on the list of regular activities.

The largest such contract carried out this year was 240 tons of steel renewal (approximately $3.7 mil- lion) onboard Canadian

Transport's 42,000-dwt Jade

Forest.

In addition, the yard also had a $3 million three-ship bulk order this year from Panama's

Promotora Navigacion. The yard also repairs the majority of the BC

Ferries' fleet of passenger/car fer- ries operating along the British

Columbian coast. The only cruise ship contract in 1997 was Cunard's

Crown Majesty, which underwent general repairs, SOLAS work and a name change to Norwegian

Majesty. This work was carried out in Victoria. In addition, Alcoa

Shipping's 47,535-dwt Liberian bulk carrier Prospector 11, was in the yard for survey work and inter- nal blasting and coating.

The yard then repaired the log barge Haida Monarch, which required some 150 tons of steel renewal after grounding during

September.

Also recently repaired was Sea-

Land Services' 21,345-dwt Un- registered containership Sea-Land

Kodiak.

Ferries repaired this year include 8,786-grt Queen of New

Westminster, 18,747-grt Spirit of

British Columbia, Skeena Queen, 5,864-grt Queen of Prince Rupert, 2,855-grt Queen of Capilano and 3,128-grt Queen of Sidney, all from

BC Ferries, and 2,493-grt Seaspan

Greg and 2,612-grt Seaspan Doris, train ferries from Seaspan.

For additional information on the ship repair organizations featured in this article, circle the appropriate number on the Reader Service Card in this edi- tion.

Cascade General 83

Todd Pacific Shipyards 84

Vancouver Shipyards 85 • AMFELS VALUE • RELIABLE SERVICE • QUALITY WORK • COST COMPETITIVENESS • AMFELS VALUE •

OFFSHORE & PETROLEUM SPECIALISTS

MAWH AMFELS Inc., located in the Port of Brownsville,

Texas, has the proven marine and offshore construction and design capabilities to reliably complete any of todays sophisticated upgrade, repair and new construction projects to the rules of ABS, DNV,

USCG, HSE, etc.

AMFELS operates an ASME and API certified fabrication facility for efficiently building process packages for onshore and offshore production applications in addition to

TLP's, SPAR's and other MOPU's (Mobile

Offshore Production Units).

A Leader

In Servicing The

Offshore Marine Industry

AMFELS' new 48,000 ton drydock is capable of lifting the largest

Jackup and Semisub- mersible Drilling Units.

Access to AMFE LS' modern 130 acre facility is by a 42 foot deep channel, with no height restrictions, from the Gulf of Mexico or the

Intercoastal Waterway.

AMFELS is fully equipped to offer quality service to the marine and offshore industries with large covered fabrication, blasting and machine shop facilities supported by land cranage up to 300 tons, and floating cranes of 700 tons & 150 tons.

Houston Office:

Texas Commerce Bank Building 5177 Richmond Avenue, Suite 1065

Houston, Texas 77056, USA

Phone: 713/840-8811

Fax: 713/840-1198

U.S. Representative

Keppel Marine Agencies Inc.

Main Office:

Port of Brownsville

Highway 48

Brownsville, Texas 78523, USA

Phone: 210/831-8220

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