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People & Company News

Atlantic Marine Gets British

Hunter Job

BP Amoco Shipping recently dry- dockes its motor tanker, British Hunter at Atlantic Marine for work consisting of intermediate and tailshaft removal for inspection and machining, realignment of the vessel's propulsion system, seal overhaul, and hull cleaning, blasting and coating.

The 151,401-dwt vessel, which was built in Korea in 1987, measures 900 x 151 x 75 ft. (274 x 46 x 23 m) and is the largest ever to be docked on Atlantic's floating drydock, Alabama.

Global Acquires Marine

Construction Business

Global Industries, Ltd. has attained the offshore marine construction business of its Mexican joint venture CCC Fabrica- ciones y Construcciones, S.A. de C.V. and sold its interest in CCC to the other

Baltic Spares Service Ltd. 8 Astronomow Street 80-299 Gdansk, Poland

Phone:(+48 58) 554 55 86

Fax: (+48 58) 554 55 85 http: //www.bss.pl email: [email protected]

We are one of the biggest Polish suppliers of ship spare parts and equipment for vessels which are being built and repaired in Polish shipyards. We have long standing relations with all major producers of ship equipment in Poland.

We can offer either from our own stock or direcdy from a producer of spare parts for main and auxiliary engines of Sulzer and

Burmeister & Wain.

We supply, among others, the following spare parts and complete ship equipment: -pumps of various types -compressors and turbochargers -electrical and electronic systems -hydraulic devices -centrifugal separators and filtrating devices -ship coolers, condensers and evaporators -cranes, ship lifts and winches -anchors and chains

We run a bonded warehouse of valves and their spare parts produced by HOERBIGER - Vienna, thermometers from

SIKA - Kaufuneen and turbochargers with their spare parts from

PBS - Velka Bites.

Cooperation with us safeguards fast and high quality services indispensable for effective ship operation.

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Dry Air

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HRP for optimal manoeuvrability

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TEL:+31 1807-19988 principal shareholder of CCC, Grupo

Consorcio de Fabricaciones y Construc- ciones. Under these terms, Global is acquiring four marine vessels and the marine support base at Cuidad de Car- men, Mexico, in addition to the existing offshore marine construction contracts totaling more than $72 million.

Another transaction in the works is a definitive purchase agreement that was signed for the attainment of ETPM, SA, an international offshore construction company. The combined company will be the largest offshore construction company in market capitalization with combined 1998 revenues of about $1.3 billion. Joining forces with Global's current international operations, ETPM will work to create a new International

Division, with Pierre Laborie, ETPM's current president and CEO as head of the venture.

From a construction standpoint, Glob- al used its deepwater pipelay/heavy-lift barge Hercules to install 17.6 miles of 16-in. pipe for Dauphin Island Gather- ing Partners (DIGP) in the Gulf of Mex- ico this summer. Implemented between

Main Pass Block 225 in water depths of 240 ft. (73.1 m) and Viosca Knoll Block 823 stationed in 1,130 ft. (344.4 m),

Global's vessel Pioneer assisted Her- cules during pipelay as well as through- out installation of a pipeline skid at

Viosca Knoll 823.

Global Industries has added a new member to the company with the elec- tion of Russell J. Robicheaux as vice president and general counsel.

Robicheaux, who previously served as assistant general counsel at J. Ray

McDermott, holds a B.S. in Electrical

Engineering from LSU and a J.D. from

Loyola University.

Adams Named President At

Dixie Machine

Dixie Machine Welding and Metal

Works, a subsidiary of Diversified

Group, New Orleans, La., has elected

John C. Adams as president. With more than 30 years experience in shipbuilding and repair management, Adams has served in various capacities in the marine repair management field.

New Hull Insurance Syndicate

Announces Appointment

The new hull insurance syndicate formed by Thomas Miller & Co.,

Chartwell Managing Agents and Swiss

Reinsurance Company has named Ann

Waite as director of claims.

Waite, who joins the syndicate with vast experience in the marine insurance industry, will coordinate teams of claims executives in the daily handling

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