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GE Marine Engines Extends

MSS Agreement with MTU

GE Marine Engines has extended its

Marine System Supplier (MSS) agree- ment with MTU Friedrichshafen (MTU), covering MTU's packaging and distribution of GE LM marine aeroderivative gas turbines.

GE LM gas turbines cover the power range from 4,500 kW to 42,700 kW. To date, MTU has packaged several GE

LM gas turbines for commercial fast ferries and military vessels.

A recent commercial project on which

GE and MTU collaborated is the Cor- saire 14000-class fast ferry. This mono- hull uses two LM2500+ gas turbines supplied by MTU in a combined diesel and gas turbine configuration with two diesel engines. The 459-ft. (140-m) fast ferry, which is operated by Maritime

Company of Lesvos, cruises at a speed of 42 knots on its route from Piraeus to the Island of Lesvos in Greece. It began commercial service in the summer of 2001.

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Southwest Marine To Perform $7 Million Modification

Southwest Marine Inc., of San Diego,

Calif., is being awarded a $7 million modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract to exercise an option for the post-shakedown avail- ability of the USS Howard (DDG 83).

Work will be performed in San Diego, and is expected to be completed by

April 2002.

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Kelvin Hughes, Announce

Saab AIS Deal

Kelvin Hughes is now able to supply both Automatic Information Systems (AIS) and Voyage Data Recorders (VDR), as part of its fully compliant integrated bridge systems (IBS). Saab

Transponder Tech, following an origi- nal equipment manufacture (OEM) agreement between Saab and Kelvin

Hughes, will supply the AIS.

AIS systems are being made compul- sory as part of the changes to SOLAS

V, which go into etfect in July 2002.

The systems are designed to work in tandem with a ship's radar system to improve the identification and location of other vessels.

This OEM contract enables Kelvin

Hughes to supply a complete range of fully compliant hardware for all com- pulsory equipment onboard new builds or for retrofits.

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U.S. Navy Awards Northrop

Grumman DDG 102 Contract

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $369.8 million contract to build an additional DDG 51 Class

Aegis guided missile destroyer for the

U.S. Navy. The work, which will be per- formed at the company's Ingalls Opera- tions, represents funding for the 2002 fiscal year ship, DDG 102, included in a multi-year contract awarded to Ingalls in March 1998. This new contract requires Ingalls to build 25 Aegis destroyers — 15 of which have already been delivered. A 16th destroyer, Shoup, completed its initial sea trials in early

January and will be commissioned this spring. According to Philip A. Dur, president of Northrop Grumman Ship

Systems, delivery dates on DDG 51 destroyers at Ingalls extend into 2006.

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