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News

KMM Designed PSV to be Built by Bender

Bender Shipbuilding and Repair Co.,

Inc. won a contract from Naviera

Tamaulipas, S.A. of Tampico, Mexico, to build a 202-ft. (61.5-m) Platform

Supply Vessel (PSV) designed by

Kvaerner Masa Marine (KMM), part of the Aker Kvaerner Group. The design is based on the K220, part of KMM's new

K-series of Platform Supply Vessel designs.

The 202 x 54 x 19-ft. (61.5 x 16.4 x 5.7-m) vessel was designed to incorpo- rate the specific needs of the owner for operation in the Mexican offshore mar- ket. It includes new technologies and embodies market trends, with its oblong liquid mud tanks outboard of the center line bulk mud tanks, and 600-hp A/C electric motor driven CPP tunnel thrusters, two in the bow and one in the stern. The vessel will be certified to

ABS DPS 1 and will be equipped with a

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A/C electric motor. Propulsion consists of two Caterpillar 3516B DITA diesel engines driving fixed pitch open pro- pellers. The vessel design is based on the KMM standard K200 series K220 that KMM developed specifically for the Gulf of Mexico market. The K200 series consists of PSV designs where the second two digits represent the design deadweight in hundreds of tons.

The design has been tailored to the facilities and construction philosophy at the Bender shipyard. "We welcome this opportunity to team with KMM and with Capt. Sanchez and his team at

Naviera Tamaulipas to construct a ves- sel which will be the best equipped and mission capable PSV in the Mexican

Flag Fleet," said Tom Bender, presi- dent, Bender Shipbuilding.

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Conrad Industries

Awarded Ferry Contract

Conrad Industries, Inc. has awarded a $9.5-million contract for the Alaska

Marine Highway System. The contract award calls for the construction of a 181 -ft. (55.1-m) ferry capable of trans- porting 149 passengers and 18 vehicles.

When delivered, the vessel will provide service between Metlakatla and

Ketchikan, two of the Inside Passage of

Alaska's southernmost communities.

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Keppel Wins Barge Order

Keppel Corporation Limited, through its offshore unit in Keppel Offshore &

Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has clinched a $14.1-million contract to build a swamp barge from repeat cus- tomer, PT Apexindo. The Indonesian drilling contractor, who recently obtained a public listing on the Jakarta

Stock Exchange, has earlier awarded

Keppel with two other contracts, one for the new construction of a 226-ft. (68.8- m) swamp barge Raisa, which was launched on October 22, 2002, and another for the repair and refurbishment of swamp barge Maera — whose six- month refurbishment is halfway com- plete.

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