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Lloyds Certification For Helifusion

Welding Process

A&P Southampton and its engineering division -

Helifusion, has achieved Lloyds Register certification for a new weld process to supplement their existing class approved process Fleetfusion.

The Fleetfusion spiral welding process originated in 1979 as a result of demand from the M.o.D for a cost effective repair for Hydroplane shafts on submarines, this process has served Helifusion well for many years and will continue in certain applications. Utilizing the

M.I.G. welding system however has its limitations in that the maximum deposition is 2.5 mm per run thus inter run machining is required for multiple layer buildups.

After Helifusion was acquired by A&P, thought was given to developing alternative welding methods to reduce consumable wastage and maximize machine utilization. After extensive research and development and a switch to the Tungsten Inert Gas system the process was submitted and subsequently accepted by

Lloyds Register. The main advantages of this process are better control of the welding parameters, with supe- rior bonding, less distortion on thin sections, less wastage of filler wire, weld can be applied to a greater thickness, and there is no machining requirement between runs if multiple layers are required.

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Klyne Tugs Orders New AHTS Vessel

Yantai Raffles Shipyard won an order from Klyne

Tugs ( Lowestoft) Limited, U.K., for another UT719-

T 220-ft. (67-m) Anchor Handling Towing Supply Ves- sel. The contract was signed on November 23, 2001 in

Yantai by Carl Beare, Managing Director of Klyne

Tugs and Brian Chang, Chairman/CEO of Yantai

Raffles Shipyard.

Yantai Raffles Shipyard is currently building 20 ves- sels for various international owners. The vessels include some of the largest DP2 Anchor Handling

Towing Supply Vessels for Tidewater Marine Inc,

USA, UT 719-T Anchor Handling Towing Supply Ves- sels for Klyne Tugs ( Lowestoft) Ltd., U.K., Mainte- nance Support Vessel for SMIT Salvor BV, a FSO (Floating Storage Offloading Vessel) for Total-Thai- land/MODEC Japan Inc. USA and an External Turret for FMC/SOFEC Inc. USA.

ANCHORS ^ORTELBOER under con-struction are five yachts varying from a 105 ft. (32-m) aluminum sailing yacht, a 50-m pleasure yacht and a 105- ft. (88-m) MegaYacht The shipyard employs a total of 1,600 people includ- ing 300 graduates, of which 70 of them are naval architects.

The yard will have a 10,000 work force within three years including subcontractors. The shipyard's 1,410 x 394 ft. (430 x 120-m) dry dock, a 1,213 ft. (370 m) gantry crane and the largest land based crane in the world is now operational.

Being installed now is a 20,000 mt hydraulic press and the second unit 370 mt gantry crane.

Manitowoc to Build Additional

USCG Buoy Tenders

Marinette Marine won a contract to build two addi- tional seagoing buoy tenders for the U.S. Coast Guard.

The options, valued at approximately $60 million, are extensions to an existing series of contracts awarded by the Coast Guard in 1993 and 1998 to build up to 16

Juniper-class buoy tenders. "These options mark nearly $350 million in new shipbuilding contracts won this year alone, and they further enhance our position as the U.S. Coast Guard's largest supplier of shipbuilding and ship-repair work," said Terry D. Growcock, Manitowoc's president and chief executive officer.

Transportation Industry Executive,

Gerald P. Toomey, Dies at 73

Transportation industry veteran Gerald P. Toomey died on Monday, November 19, at the Riverview Med- ical Center in Red Bank, NJ. He was 73. During his long tenure inthe transportation industry, Toomey was best known for his contributions at Sea-Land Service,

Inc. where he worked from 1963 until 1974. There, he was instrumental in the development of the company's

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Caribbean www.wortelboer.n trades, and he ulti- mately served as Sea-

Land's group vice presi- dent, Caribbean. In 1974, when

Sea-Land spun off its Puerto

Rico/Caribbean division, Toomey took the helm of Puerto Rico Marine Manage- ment, Inc. (PRMMI) as president ofthe manage- ment company that operated Navieras de Puerto

Rico, the Puerto Ricanstate-owned steamship line.

Toomey also worked with Trans Freight Lines, a U.S. subisidiary of Thomas Nationwide Transport Inc.;

Consolidated Freightways in Akron, Ohio; and he served as president of the management company that operated Navieras de Puerto Rico.

Most recently, Toomey was a consultant with Colum- bia Coastal Transport in Liberty Corner, N.J.

Keppel FELS Signs $77M Deal

With Diamond Offshore

Keppel FELS Limited (KFELS) won contracts worth a total of $77 million from Diamond Offshore Drilling

Inc. for the upgrades of a semi-submersible, Ocean

Rover and a jack-up rig, Ocean Tower.

This follows a $34 million contract from Diamond

Offshore for the upgrading of four jack-up rigs in July this year.

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