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Ship Repair & Conversion ing on LNG tonnage by the yard. Fol- lowing this successful venture, Norman

Lady's owner is currently considering similar repairs to its sister vessel.

Further expanding its newbuild capa- bilities, ASRY signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Colombo Dock- yard for the exchange of expertise and capabilities regarding small vessel design, specifications and newbuildings.

Through this agreement the yard will enhance its potential within small vessel newbuilds to accommodate future orders for harbor tugs and other service craft.

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Malta Drydocks Lands Crown

Odyssey Refit

Malta Drydocks has won a contract to refit the 34,250-ton Orient Lines luxury cruise liner Crown Odyssey. The ship is to be docked between April 25 and May 4 for what has been described as a "sub- stantial" refit, including pipe works and machinery and an overhaul of pro- pellers, shafts and stabilizers.

The Crown Odyssey will be the first cruise liner at Malta Drydocks this year and the first time Orient Lines is send- ing a vessel to Malta Drydocks, dock- yard officials said. The contract was won despite stiff competition from ship repairers in Portugal and Italy.

Over the past few years Malta Dry- docks carried out work on Cunard's

Royal Viking Sun, Sagafjord, Vistafjord and Sea Goddess II, the Renaissance

Four of Renaissance Cruises, Carousel and Seawing, operated by Airtours and

Island Breeze of Premier Cruises.

The value of the new contract has not been disclosed.

Newport News Lands Repair

Contract on MSC Vessel

MV/PFC William Baugh

Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) has been granted a contract for ship repair work on Military Sealift Com- mand (MSC) pre-positioning vessel

MV/PFC William Baugh chartered through Maersk Lines.

With terms not yet disclosed, a portion of the contract calls for hull blasting and

April, 2000 painting; underwater equipment survey; tank blasting and painting; overhaul of deck cranes; and repair of machinery components.

Measuring 755 ft. (230 m) with a beam of 90 ft. (27.4 m) Baugh arrived at

NNS on March 6 where it will remain until its scheduled redelivery on April 4.

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Tug Pair Is Repowered

The St. Laurent Forest Products Corp. of West Point, Va. has been running Elis and Sture — a pair of 84 ft. (25.6 m) tugs — since their construction in 1980 in Houma, La.

Dedicated to supplying St. Laurent's pulp mill with chips, as well as the tow- ing company's oil barge, the tugs' origi- nal engines began to show signs of wear and tear.

Deployed in the Chesapeake Bay, the vessels are often towing two 200 ft. (60.9 m), 1,500-ton wood chip barges from satellite plants around the Bay to the paper plant in West Point.

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