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EMPLOYMENT/RECRUITMENT

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General Manager

Turbocharger Service Center

ABB, a world-renowned leader in heavy duty turbochargers, is looking to appoint a General Manager for their Los Angeles Service Center. This position has full

Profit / Loss and operational accountability. Some key responsibilities are: • Marketing and sales of ABB Turbochargers and their components. • Close customer contact from a commercial and technical perspective. • Supervision and coordination of personnel to ensure the integrity of equipment repaired and service work performed, in the field and the shop. • Procurement, installation and maintenance of machinery, tools and equipment. • Maintenance of spare parts inventory.

We will select a college or maritime academy graduate, with a least 10 years' experience in the operation/ maintenance of maritime diesel engines and related areas.

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North Brunswick, NJ 08902 (Continued from page 82) ter part of last year and is expected to be com- pleted this month. The work is being carried out by a team of project managers from both

Shiprepair and Offshore Divisions within MSE.

The news that there was a recent merger between Sembawang Corporation and ST

Industries will not affect the current make-up of the Singapore shiprepair industry. ST

Industries' repair yard in Tuas was not included in the merger, and therefore will remain autonomous from Sembawang Shipyard, which is also being operated autonomously from

Jurong Shipyard Ltd. (JSL) despite a merger, carried out last year, between these two compa- nies. There are a total of four VLCCs recently under repair in Singapore's Sembawang

Shipyard, and the yard continues its dominance of the cruise vessel repair market with three such projects already completed this year:

Norske Cruises' 4,042-grt Sea Goddess 11;

White Star Cruises' 2,248-grt Star Flyer; and

PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia's 14,501-grt

Kerinci, which has been at the yard since

January undergoing a major refurbishment due to be completed in July.

Hitachi Zosen (Singapore) has now completed the nine-month period FPSO conversion, which is the yard's first, of the 131,484 dwt Rang

Dong. The vessel, formerly the Proster, is to be operated by SBM Engineering for a joint ven- ture company Japan Vietnam Petroleum Co. (JVPC), which involves Mitsubishi Diamond off the Vietnam coast, on the Rang Dong oilfield.

Jurong Shipyard Ltd. (JSL) is Singapore's most successful yard in the conversion market, with no less than three major projects currently underway, having recently completed another two. The contracts completed were the Juno 96 project, a 357,600-dwt conventional tanker con- verted to FPSO for Pemex, now named

Ta'Kuntah, and the Modec Venture 1 project, which saw a FSU upgraded to FPSO status for

Japan's Modec.

The three conversion projects currently in the yard all involve contracts from Brazil's

Petrobras. The P40 storage unit is a former der- rick barge, named DB100, owned by

McDermott; the P37, formerly Seatankers' 246,051-dwt conventional tanker Friendship, is a floating storage unit (FSU); and the P38, for- merly World-Wide Shipping's 261,729 dwt

VLCC World Eminence, is a FPSO.

Keppel Shipyard (Tuas) is also involved in the FPSO conversion market with the 140,905 dwt Ruby Princess (ex Knock Davie) FPSO cur- rently being converted for Nortrans, the unit to be operated on the Vang Tau oilfield off the

Vietnamese coast for a joint venture between

Petronas (Malaysia) and Carigali (Vietnam).

She is due for delivery in the third quarter of this year. Keppel has also currently completed the 135,015 dwt Petroleo Nautipa (ex Knock

Buie) FPSO project, also for Nortrans, for use on the Kiame oilfield off Angola for Ranger Oil.

The yard also has the FPSO SPU 4 (formerly the Shell Fulmar FPSO), at the yard awaiting an upgrading contract from new owners Care

Offshore. Other conversion work includes the

Peregrine IV project (hull to drillship) for

Houston's Falcon Drilling. From the large tanker market, the yard is currently repairing the 279,986 dwt Panamanian VLCC Sebu, which is the third VLCC contract won by

Keppel this year from WorldWide Shipping

Agencies. Other ships currently under repair include OMI Corp.'s 155,869 dwt Liberian tanker Cairo Sea and Associated Maritime's 274,376 dwt Liberian ore carrier Weser Ore.

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