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Shanghai ScienceLand (SSL), with a total investment exceeding $180 mil- lion, is scheduled to open in June 2001.

The other NT Pro order was received from the Dalian Maritime University in

North China. This projected simulator facility will include an Instructor Station with selective ARPA module and two own-ship bridges. Each trainee bridge will consist of Conning, Radar/ARPA,

ECDIS and Navaids simulators. Instal- lation of the system is scheduled for

December 2000.

Circle 17 on Reader Service Card two major contracts of its kind planned in ADSB's ongoing facility expansion, which will be completed by the end of this year.

The latest in this group of contracts includes the construction of a steel fab- rication shop, outfit workshop, repair shop and warehouse complex.

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Steel Partnership Results In

Contract Award

The joining of Fundia Profiler and

Rautaruukki Steel has led to a contract worth more than $5 million from Aker

Finnyards. The partnership between the two companies - Fundia's profilers and

Rautaruukki plates — provides Aker with added expertise on its new 32,000- grt ear-passenger ferry for SeaFrance.

The RoPax vessel will operate between

Dover and Calais, and at a service speed of 25 knots, transporting 1,900 passen- gers and 700 cars across the channel in one hour. In addition, the company has an option for a sister vessel.

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MacGregor To Supply RoRo

Package For Brittany Ferries

MacGregor has won a contract worth approximately $5 million from van der

Giessen-de Noord to supply and install

RoRo equipment on a 36,000-gt car/passenger ferry ordered by Brittany

Ferries. The new 574 x 92 ft. (175 x 28 m), 21-knot ferry, will hold an equip- ment package comprised of bow and stern ramps and doors; hoistable car decks and ramps; ramp covers; engine room workshop and container covers; and hydraulic power packs.

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Transocean Receives Drilling

Contract From Statoil

Transocean Sedco Forex has signed a contract for the semisubmersible Sover- eign Explorer to drill two wells for Sta- toil (U.K.) Limited. The contract, which is valued at approximately $16.8 mil- lion, is expected to begin in April 2001, spanning about 105 days.

A high-specification semisubmersible, capable of drilling in water depths of up to 4,500 ft. (1,371 m), Explorer is cur- rently engaged in drilling operations for

Ranger Oil in the U.K. North Sea.

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Litton Granted Engineering

Support Contract

The U.S. Navy has awarded Litton

Industries a five-year contract, valued at as much as $311 million, to its Ingalls

Shipbuilding unit to provide engineer- ing and technical services support.

The contract, valued at about $57.6 million in fiscal year 2001, will benefit the Navy's fleet of Ticonderoga Class

Aegis guided missile cruisers and Spru- ance Class multimission destroyers.

ADSB Grants $8.7M Contract

Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB), has awarded a significant construction contract to a local contractor, A1 Hamed

Development and Construction, LLC.

The contract, which is valued at approx- imately $8.7 million, is the second of

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