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SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION undergo a $20 million jumboiza- tion.

The project will involve inserting a new 98-ft. (30-m) mid-body sec- tion and increasing the beam from its present 131 ft. (40 m) to 164 ft. (50 m) in a contract expected to last 65 days. The conversion will result in a 120 percent increase in carrying capacity to 47,000 tons, while the unobstructed deck area, measuring 7,500-sq.-m., an increase of more than 50 percent.

Following the completion of the conversion of American Champion from trawler to seismic vessel,

Tyne Tees Dockyard has been awarded a second such project, the conversion of a deepsea fishing vessel into a new seismic survey vessel to be renamed Atlantic

Horizon. The contract, which was awarded by Horizon Exploration

Ltd, will include the installation of 500 tons of steel, new main engines, new generators and new thrusters as well as total refur-

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Above: Western Ship Repair Yard - privatization. • under 50 bishment of the accommodation and the complete seismic outfit package. In what is believed to be the largest ever repair contract carried out by Panama's Astilleros

Braswell International SA, the yard has renewed some 600 tons of steel onboard the 62,153-dwt tanker Golden Eagle, which is owned by Greece's Aran Shipping & Trading. The vessel ran aground during early March this year, with initial estimates show- ing that some 150 tons of steel renewal was required along the bilge strake and associated inter- nals. The ships arrived in the dry- dock on March 11, and inspection showed that some 580 tons of steel were needed to be replaced.

Contracts were signed on a basis of seven to eight tons per day, with the complete project esti-mated to take some 80 days to complete.

However, the yard maintained a higher than estimated level of work and the actual contract was complete in 75 days.

In what it is believed to be one of the world's first "fifth survey",

Bergesen's 284,522-dwt, 1973- built VLCC Berge Prince entered

Dubai Drydocks for a four week period beginning May 6th. There is a great number of large tankers expected to go through fifth special survey work over the coming few years, the latest OPA regulations allowing for tankers to be in ser- vice for up to 30 years. Dubai

Drydocks also recently carried out guarantee repairs to the first in a series of large lng carriers built by

Finland's Kvaerner Masa for Abu

Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC).

The 116,703-gt Moss-Rosenburg type LNG carrier Mubaraz has already been completed and the second ships, the Mraweh was due last month. Following a low work period during January and

February this year, March has resulted in the highest sales fig- ures for over a year for Bahrain's

ASRY, which has experienced an overall increased demand through- out the first quarter 1998. March (Continued on page 85)

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