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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Marinette Marine Wins

Navy Contract

Marinette Marine has been awarded a $32.5 million contract to design and construct two bar- racks craft (APL-small) which will provide living accommodations for

Navy ship crews during a ship repair or over- haul period. The

APL will usually be employed in or near U.S.

Navy or civilian

The principal characteristics of the craft are:

Length .. .269 ft.

Width .. .68 ft.

Height . .64.4 ft.

Weight .3,162 mt

Certification ABS

Berthing 230

Food Service For ...1,130 facilities and depend on shore sup- ply for utility services. It is capable of being towed, unmanned, in open ocean and coastal environments.

The first craft will be delivered in

August 2000 and the second craft will be delivered in December 2000. 18-19 NOVEMBER &Conversion Reinforcing contacts

Renewing commitment

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Generating new business

The exhibition will for the first time be held on two floors of Olympia and includes a record number of exhibitors.

This year, the conference programme will include industry leaders presenting their papers on the following topics: lo«S *0>N K • Safety and the skills crisis • Regional developments:

Bulgaria, South

Africa, Portugal • Major conversion pro|ects • The ISM Code • The fifth survey: structural requirements and the independent survey • The environment 18-19

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Panama Enters

Classification Business

Isthmus Bureau of

Shipping S.A., (IBS)

Panama has dynami- cally move into the classification services by the initiation of its classification division IBS Class.

The formal operation of IBS Class was commenced after an official presentation which was given at

Panama city on August 27 in the presence of Panama Maritime

Authority Officials.

The classification division of

Isthmus Bureau of Shipping S.Ais a Joint Venture of the companies

Isthmus Bureau of Shipping S.A.,

Panama and International

Maritime Center S.A. IBS has the head office at Athens Greece man- aged and operated by

International Maritime Center

S.A.

LR Carries Out Analysis On

BP Shuttle Tanker

A failure mode and effect analy- sis has been carried out by Lloyd's

Register (LR) on the dynamic posi- tioning system of a new shuttle tanker, the 850,000 bbls Loch

Rannoch. The tanker was designed and built at the Daewoo

Heavy Industries Ltd. OKPO ship- yard, Korea, delivered in August to

Maersk for shuttling crude from

BP's Schiehallion field to Shetland in the U.K. sector of the North Sea.

The exercise was carried out to help ensure that no single failure in the dynamic positioning system would lead to a greater than 50 percent loss of capability in the system.

The successful completion of the exercise is part of the process of assignment of LR's DP (AA) class notation, which demonstrates that, in LR's view, a vessel has a hydro-dynamic system with auto- matic control capable of moving, maneuvering and holding the desired heading and position of a ship during operation; and that power, control, thruster and other systems necessary for the correct functioning of the dynamic posi- tioning system are configured in such a way that a fault in any active component or system should not result in a loss of position.

Coming in November...

Workboat Industry

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