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News ble fireboat in the Americas. The vessel will be a high-performance fire-fighting vessel; versatile, stable and highly maneuverable in all operations. Support operations of the vessel will include res- cue, de-watering (salvage-pumping) and diving support in and around the Los

Angeles harbor. The fire-fighting system will comprise a foam/water system sup- plied by main engine driven pumps plus a water fog/jet system supplied by four independent engine driven pumps.

It is anticipated that the contract design package for the Los Angeles

Replacement Fireboat will be put out to tender and a construction contract award announced in 2001.

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FirstWave/Newpark

Gets Rhodia Contract

FirstWave/Newpark was awarded a contract by Rhodia of Houston, Texas for the construction of a trio of inland service double-hulled tank barges - each of which measures 250 x 42 x 12 ft. (76.2 x 12.8 x 3.6 m) With a cargo

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Blount Signs Ferry Contract

Fire Island Ferries, Bay Shore, L.L. has come to an agreement with Blount

Industries of Warren, R.I. to construct an 85-ft. (25.9 m) all welded aluminum, 30-mph passenger commuter vessel for operation on the Great South Bay. With completion set for May 2001, the ferry will be based on the original design of

Firebird, which was built for West Ferry in 1984 - it will be the seventh Blount vessel to operate at its Bay Shore, L.I. terminal The 395-passenger, triple screw vessel will be certified under U.S.

Coast Guard subchapter K. Rules and

Regulations. Its power will be provided by three GM 8V2000 engines.

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Tribon Solutions Signs

Contract With DHI

Tribon Solutions has signed a $ 4.5 mil- lion, 3-year contract with Daewoo Heavy

Industries to supply and implement the

Next Generation of the current Tribon M1 product on Windows NT. This Tribon Mx

Series development will lead to Tribon

M2 and Tribon M3 systems. 18 Circle 276 on Reader Service Card

From left, Young-Kyun Shin, president of

Daewoo Heavy Industries; Lennart Olson, president of Tribon Solutions AB, and Moon-

Kyu Lim, senior vice president of Daewoo

Heavy Industries, sealed the contract.

Tribon Mx Series development will be focused to greatly extend the Outfitting and Data Management functions in the current Tribon Ml. Daewoo will con- tribute both requirements and partial financing for the Tribon Mx Series devel- opment. This contract is based on the already successful implementation of Tri- bon at Daewoo for commercial hull design and the complete use of both hull and outfitting functions at Daewoo Spe- cial Ships Division for in particular the

Korean KDX1 Frigate and some recent orders for Passenger RoRo vessels.

The results from this contract will allow

Daewoo to carry out their CAD Unifica- tion Project, which has the goal of using one system for their complete design work. Daewoo will step by step over the contract period implement the Tribon sys- tem for the complete commercial ship design process and replace their older sys- tems.

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