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Ailsa-Troon Carries Out Record

Number Of Repairs

Ailsa-Troon Ltd, Scotland's West

Coast shipbuilding and repair yard, has recently performed work on various commercial and naval vessels — mark- ing its busiest year ever.

Caledonian MacBrayne ferries has

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YVC Takes Over Shiprepair

Activities At WF At Schiedam

Upon the realization that Wilton

Fijenoord Shiprepairyard (WF) was available for acquisition by interested parties, Yssel-Vliet Combination (YVC) decided to take advantage of the oppor- tunity by taking over all of the yard's facilities and shiprepair activities. The new YVC company, Rotterdam United

Shipyards B.V, commenced its activi- ties in April; the shipyard is comprised of five drydocks, along with modernized well-equipped workshops.

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Saipem Ready For New

Offshore Operations

Before the new year commenced,

Hydrex, headquartered in Antwerp, was contacted by the owners of Saipem 7000 to begin maintenance and repair work. The large semi-sub- mersible crane ves- sel, constructed in 1987 by Fincantieri, has an approximate overall length of 656 ft. (200 m), a beam of 295 ft. (90 m) and an operation draft of more than 131 ft. (40 m). Saipem 7000 is constructed with eight engines, four propellers and 10 thrusters.

Maritime Reporter/Engineering News docked members of its fleet, namely,

Loch Dunvegan, Loch Tarbert, Loch

Fyne, Lochmor, Clansman and Juno for

Ailsa-Troon has appointed

Alastair Bisset as chief executive; Ian McKillop, yard manager; and John

McFadyen, shiprepair manager. their annual maintenance program and refits. Other vessels currently in-house are Gardner's coast tanker, St. Kearnan, which required 12 tons of new steel- work. Scheduled refit work was also performed on two Cory Towage operat- ed tugs. Battleaxe and Warrior, resulting in Cory obtaining regular service agree- ments with the yard.

USS ESSEX At NASSCO

The National Steel and Shipbuilding

Company (NASSCO) drydocked the 844 x 106 ft. (257 x 32.3 m), USS

ESSEX (LHD-2), the first amphibi- ous assault ship to undergo maintenance drydocking. NASSCO was awarded the $490 million contract, December 1997, by the U.S. Navy, who wanted to improve "quality of life" for the sailors serving on these ships. USS ESSEX returned to operations in late June and will return for additional work to be completed on September 3 of this year.

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Algoma Gives Contract To CSE

Algoma Central Marine awarded a $3.77 million contract to Canadian

Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd. (CSE) to convert a single-hulled tanker to dou- ble-hulled construction at its Port Weller

Dry Docks facility. This project will mark the first conversion, of this type, ever done at a Canadian shipyard. Algo- ma owns and operates North America's largest fleet on the Great lakes-St.

Lawrence Waterway.

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