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Workboat Annual 2003

Vosta LMG's newly established office in the U.S., Vosta Inc., played a vital role in securing the order.

Vice President Greg Holder said "The

Cottrell deal shows the need for a local presence of Vosta LMG in the U.S. mar- ket," according to Greg Holder.

Vosta LMG is also currently working on three large Trailing Suction Hopper

Dredge projects: • A 10,000 cu. m. TSHD, currently being built at Mitsubishi Heavy

Industries' shipyard in Kobe, Japan for

Egyptian end-user Suez Canal Authority • A 5.000 cu. m. TSHD built in coop- eration with a Chinese partner shipyard in Shanghai for Chinese Huanghua Port • A 1.500 cu. m. TSHD built with partner shipyard Damen Hoogezand for

Vietnamese Waterway Dredging and

Construction Company.

Modifications on existing Trailing

Suction Hopper Dredges are also ongo- ing for a German and a Northern

European Dredge contractor.

Also, the order portfolio for compo- nents and spare parts looks healthy with large orders for among others cutter teeth and dredge pump wear parts.

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Senesco Marine Christens

New Drydock

Senesco Marine last month christened its new dry dock and celebrated the dry dock's receipt of a key certification that has already significantly increased the company's repair business.

The certification bestowed upon the

Leslie G by Heger Dry Dock, Inc, of

Holliston, Mass., now allows the ship- yard to compete for valuable govern- ment repair contracts.

The Leslie G is 255 ft. long with 82 ft. between the wing walls.

The pontoon depth is 9 ft. The certifi- cation by Heger Dry Dock, Inc. gives the Leslie G a rated lifting capacity of 3500 Long Tons. "The certification of the Leslie G paves the way for Senesco Marine to actively bid for future governmental

November 2003 repair contracts, all of which contain the prerequisite of a certified dry dock," said

Gary Schuler, CEO of Senesco Marine.

Other repair jobs made possible by the new dry dock's certification include the

NOAA research vessel Albatross IV and the state of Maine's Department of

Environmental Protection Oil recovery barge the "Netepenaesit."

While Senesco Marine's repair busi- ness has seen steady growth, the compa- ny is best known for producing high quality double-hulled liquid fuel barges.

Last year the shipyard christened two 80,000-barrel double-hulled fuel barges and currently has two more under con- struction.

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