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Contracts

Tampa Bay Shipbuilding &

Repair Enters Agreement

Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair

Company has been chosen by Maritrans

Operating Partners, a subsidiary of Mar- itrans, Inc. to retro-fit its second single- hull vessel, Ocean 244, in order to com- ply with the requirements of OPA 1990, via double-hull conversion.

Tampa Bay has decided to employ the same Maritrans innovative computer - assisted design and manufacturing process that led to Tampa Bay's citation as one of Maritime Reporter and Engi- neering News Outstanding Shipbuilders of 1998 for their development of Mari- trans 192.

OPA 1990 requires that all existing single-hull vessels engaged in the mar- itime transport of oil and petroleum products be retro-fitted with double hulls - or be retired by 2015.

AMCV Acquires

MS Nieuw Amsterdam

American Classic Voyages (AMCV) has come to an agreement with Holland

America line to buy MS Nieuw Amster- dam for $114.5 million, contingent upon various conditions expected to be resolved by this coming fall.

A unit of Carnival Corporation, Hol- land America Line is scheduled to trans- fer the 1,214-passenger cruise ship to

AMCV during fall 2000. AMCV plans to re-document Nieuw Amsterdam as a

U.S.-flag vessel, complete with Ameri- can crew, to sail the Hawaiian Islands as part of the company's Project America - the result of the U.S.-Flag Cruise Ship

Pilot Project Statute passed by Congress in 1997.

The project, which is expected to cre- ate more than 5,000 American jobs, is based on the goal of the revitalization of the U.S.-flag oceangoing cruise ship fleet. "The acquisition of Nieuw Amster- dam will expand cruising options in

Hawaii, offering consumers the highest level of service," said Philip C. Calian, president and CEO of AMCV "The ves- sel will not only expand cruising oppor- tunities in Hawaii, attracting more cruis- ers to the state, but also will create approximately 400 new U.S. jobs onboard this ship."

Measuring 704-ft. (214.5 m), 33,930- gt Nieuw Amsterdam provides the amenities of a posh resort hotel with the conveniences of cruising. Its Hawaiian

Island itineraries will showcase the nat- ural beauty of the Islands, allowing pas- sengers to partake in the vessel's five lounges, two restaurants and 15-ft (4.5 m).-wide teak deck, encircling the

Upper Promenade Level.

Kent Line Selects OSL

Kent Line International Ltd., St. John,

N.B., has chosen Offshore Systems Ltd. for the supply of electronic navigation systems for four of its vessels. Awarded in May, the contract will result in the

Irving Canada, Irving Eskimo, Irving

Arctic and Kent Voyager being outfitted with the most recent version of OSL's

Electronic Chart Precise Integrated

Navigation System (ECPINS) PRO product. Crew training and the provi- sion of electronic navigational charts via OSL's subsidiary Offshore Charts are also part of the agreement.

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