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Pacific Gulf To Operate Unique Vessel

Pacific-Gulf Marine has finalized an agreement with

Patriot Shipping LLC to manage and operate the heavy lift vessel, Industrial Challenger, under U.S. Flag.

Built in 2000, the 8,000 dwt multi-purpose vessel has lifting capacity of 400 mt, a 16.5-knot service speed and is ideally suited for project and heavy lift cargo. It is expected that the vessel will operate in the U.S. to

South America trade while pursuing other opportuni- ties to move both commercial and/or U.S. government cargoes from the U.S. to worldwide destinations.

The vessel will be manned by Licensed officers from the American Maritime Officers (AMO) and unli- censed personnel provided by the Seafarers Interna- tional Union (SIU); it will be enrolled in the Voluntary

Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) program spon- sored by the U.S. Maritime Administration & the

Department of Defense's sealift program.

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Northrop To Supply Navigation Systems

Northrop Grumman Corporation's Sperry Marine unit has been awarded a contract by BAE SYSTEMS to supply inertial navigation systems for three new 7,200-ton, 318-ft. (96.9-m) Astute-class submarines for the U.K. Royal Navy. Each of the new submarines will be fitted with dual enhanced NATO Ship's Inertial

Navigation Systems based on Sperry's ring laser gyro (RLG) systems technology. Equipment deliveries under the $5.8 million contract are scheduled to begin in late 2002 and will be completed in 2004.

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Algeria Confirms Ferry Order

Algerian state-owned shipowner ENTMV (Enter- prise Nationale de Transports Maritimes de Voyageurs) has placed an order with IZAR to build two RoRo pas- senger ferries.

Instead of initial plans for splitting the order between

IZAR and its former subsidiary H.J. Barreras, both 145-ft. (44.1-m), 2,900 dwt vessels will be built by

IZAR at its Seville yard. The first vessel is scheduled for delivery on January 2004 and the second, four months later. ENTMV will operate the ships between

Algiers and Marseilles, with a call on the way at Ali- cante.

Each vessel, which has a design draft of 20 ft. (6 m) will accommodate up to 1,300 passengers and up to 130 crew, with a 1,350 lineal meter lane equivalent to 300 cars or 42 lorries. There will be 132 first class cab- ins plus 77 tourist class cabins, plus 85 crew cabins; passenger public spaces will total 4,900 sq. m.

These fully automatic vessels will each have a con- trol system simultaneously monitoring 1,200 stations and will be supplied with a 24-hour unattended engine room.

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Stolt-Nielsen and Jo Tankers Announce

Service Agreement For U.S. Gulf to Asia

Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Ltd. (SNTG), has signed a co-service agreement, with Jo Tankers (JOT), scheduled to commence on February 1, 2002, for operational matters for the transportation of bulk liquids from ports in the U.S. Gulf to ports in Asia.

The purpose of this agreement is to improve service levels for SNTG and JOT customers and increase oper- ational efficiencies while maintaining the commercial independence of SNTG and JOT. To accomplish this goal, SNTG and JOT will identify ports and berths where safety improvements and operational efficien- cies such as more efficient loading, discharging, trans- shipping or barging operations can be achieved by working together to allocate cargoes to particular ships.

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Raytheon Granted $9.7 Million

Power Supply Contract

Raytheon Systems Co., Defense Systems Segment,

Naval & Maritime Systems, Sudbury, Mass., was awarded a $9.7 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to exercise an option for one set of SPY-ID(V) Aegis transmitter group high volt power supplies. Work will be per- formed in Sudbury, Mass., and Andover, Mass., and is expected to be completed by February 2005.

The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington,

D.C., is the contracting activity.

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