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MARCO Shipyards Signs

Local Contract

MARCO Shipyard Seattle signed a contract to build a new tug for Harley

Marine Services Inc., of Seattle, the par- ent company of Olympic Tug & Barge.

Recently, MARCO completed a series of nine tractor tugs operating in Alaska,

California, and Hawaii.

Measuring 105 ft. (32 m), the new tug will be used by Harley Marine as a ship assist and towing service for the west coast. Except for some pilothouse mod- ifications and the addition of barge fend- ering, the tug will be similar to the Gyr- falcon, owned and operated by Harley

Marine in Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

Scheduled for a February 2000 deliv- ery, the tug will be powered by twin

Caterpillar 3516B diesels, providing a combined 4,400-hp driving Olsten 1650H Z-drive units, each fitted with

Ulstein's nozzle and skewed Kaplan- style propellers.

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Croatian Shipyard Delivers Oil

Tanker To Doria Shipping 3.Maj Brodogradiliste (MAJ), of Rije- ka Croatia, delivered the first oil tanker of a series of four to Doria Shipping. In

March, 1997 3.MAJ was contracted to build four 71,345-dwt oil tankers for $150 million. With the financing help of

Merrill Lynch International of London, and the full support of the Croatian gov- ernment, the company successfully finalized this order. Built for the trans- portation of crude oil and oil products,

M/T Margara has five pairs of cargo and one pair of slop tanks. Double sides were applied in fuel tanks for the ves- sel's compliance with all international environmental requirements.

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Main Particulars

Flag Malta

Classification . ABS

Length (o.a.) . 750 ft. (228.5 m)

Length (b.p.) .. 722 ft. (220 m)

Breadth 106 ft. (32.2 m)

Depth 69 ft. (20.9 m)

Draft 41 ft. (12.5 m)

DWT 60,913

GT 40,705

Speed 15.3 knots

Main engine .. Wartsila NSD

Max. output 12,000 kW @ 105 rpm

Dockwise Successfully

Completes Last Of 10

Heavy transport shipping specialist

Dockwise safely delivered the 18,000- tons Asgard "B" GVA70 FPU (Floating

Production Unit) hull to Stavanger, Nor- way. After successfully completing nine voyages for the Asgard project, the

Mighty Servant 3 loaded the FPU hull, which measures 336 x 315 x 148 ft. (102.4 x 96 x 45 m) at the Daewoo con- struction yard in Okpo, Korea.

Since departing Korea on July 16, the

Mighty Servant arrived after a six-week voyage offshore Stavanger, via the Suez

Canal on August 31.

Since commencing in December 1997 with a transport of three Asgard "A"

FPSO modules from Sicily to Norway, seven consecutive piggyback voyages - with a total of 25 onshore modules have been executed from Holland to Norway.

TDI-Halter Delivers Drilling

Barge To Sedco Forex

TDI-Halter, a Halter Marine Group,

Inc. company, Gulfport, Miss., delivered

Prisa 103, the last of the trio of newly- built drilling barges to Sedco Forex, the drilling division of Schlumberger Limit- ed. Measuring 180 x 75 x 15 ft. (54.8 x 22.8 x 4.5 m), Prisa 101, 102 and 103 are part of an overall conceptual design approach — an approach in which

Sedco Forex has permanently integrated the Well intervention structure, equip- ment and systems to facilitate conven- tional light drilling and well re-entry with coiled tubing and other well inter- vention operations. Joining the first two member of the trio, Prisa 103, which began the tow to Venezuela this past

March, is currently deployed in the country's Lake Maracaibo for a 10-year contract with PDVSA.

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USN Christens RoRo

The U.S. Navy christened its newest

RoRo cargo ship, USNS Red Cloud at

National Steel and Shipbuilding Compa- ny (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif. The vessel is the newest in the Watson class of large, medium speed RoRo sealift ships constructed at NASSCO, measur- ing 950 x 106 ft. (289.5 x 32.3 m).

Keppel Marine On Its Way To

Completing AHTS Vessels

Keppel Marine Industries, through its flagship company, Keppel Singmarine

Dockyard, is set to put the finishing touches on its third and fourth Anchor

Handling Tug/Supply (AHTS) Vessels the company is constructing for the AP

Moller Group (Maersk).

The third and fourth of a six-part series ordered by Maersk, the vessels are one of the world's most advanced types of AHTS.

Christened Maersk Supplier and

Maersk Seeker this past July, the AHTS vessels can operate in deep waters, and are equipped with special high capaci- ty split type stern roller and contempo- rary anchor handling and towing winches.

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Main Particulars

Length 269 ft. (82 m)

Breadth 62 ft. (19 m)

Draft 25 ft. (7.5 m)

EnginesFour units medium speed diesel @ 18,000-bhp

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