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Algoma Awards $5.3

Million Contract To Port

Weller Dry Docks

Algoma Central Marine has awarded a $5.3 million contract to

Port Weller Dry Docks for a major refit of the self-unloader M/V

Agawa Canyon. Steel-cutting and other preparatory work to renew the Agawa Canyon will begin in

October and the ship will arrive at

Port Weller in mid-December. The ship is scheduled for delivery in

April 1999, to coincide with the beginning of the Great Lakes ship- ping season. Since 1996, two other

Algoma vessels, the M/V Algorail and the M/V Algoway, have under- gone similar mid-life refits at Port

Weller.

Marinette Marine Gets Two

More Buoy Tender Contracts

The U.S. Coast Guard awarded

Marinette Marine Corp. a contract to build two Juniper Class (WLB) buoy tenders, which is a follow-on contract to the five-vessel WLB contract Marinette Marine

Corporation is working on now.

The award has options for the

USCG to purchase an additional nine vessels, for a projected eleven (additional) vessel cost of about $309 million.

The value of this contract repre- sents the largest contract in the history of Marinette Marine and will provide continued employ- ment through 2004.

Kelvin Hughes7 Navigation

Equipment Installed on New

Petromarine Vessel

Kelvin Hughes' radars and other navigation equipment have been fitted to the new Petromarine product and gas tanker MT Cap

Ferret. The equipment installed included a Nucleus2 6000 Multi-

Function Display (MFD) which presently displays the UKHO raster chart system, ARCS. The

MFD is fully integrated with the radar sets and is capable of ARPA target transfer, allowing the radar signal to be repeated on the MFD screen and superimposed within the chart, aiding the accurate and safe navigation of the ship. The bridge of MT Cap Ferret features a

Nucleus2 6000 ARPA radar which is capable of displaying up to 50 targets at one time.

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Stratos Mobile Networks

Wins U.S. Navy Contract

The U.S. Navy has awarded

Stratos Mobile Networks a con- tract for approximately $7 million to provide Inmarsat-B High Speed

Data (HSD) lease channel mode communication services. This will provide full-time Inmarsat-B, 64 kbps service to forward deployed

U.S. Naval vessels in support of the Chief of Naval Operations'

Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT-21) Project. "As an adaptive multi-network service provider, Stratos was able to deliv- er an end-to-end solution that nicely fit with the Navy's invest- ment strategy and current infra- structure," said president and

CEO Derrick Rowe. Similar ser- vices have been provided by

Stratos to customers including the

Canadian Military and Coast

Guard.

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