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China

Cosco Dalian Leads China

Ship Repair Business

China's Cosco Dalian is ranked as the leading Chinese repair yard, the yard's facilities including three floating docks (one, at 180,000 dwt capacity - the largest in China) and Panamax size docks, and six berths of approximately 2.000 m in length plus two repair buoys inside its confines. Cosco Dalian is able to accommodate 15 vessels at the same time for drydocking and atloat repairs, with shore cranes reachable, making the yard's normal turnover - some 180 ves- sels annually.

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Shipmanagement's 52,092 dwt semi- submersible heavy lift vessel American

Cormorant, (1,998 tons of steel renewal in the ballast tanks) and V Ships' 74,974 dwt self unloading bulk carrier Nelvana (1,400 tons of additional steel in the cargo holds). The vessel is owned by

Canada's CSL Group. The yard also car- ried out additional car deck installation on-board three car carriers from Korea's

Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) - the 33,369 grt Hual Troubador, 30,024 grt

Hyundai No. 108, and the 31,367 grt

Hyundai No. 203.

HRDD Acquires

SecondFloating Dock

HRDD is obtaining a new floating dock, a dock which will reportedly be the biggest in China, capable of Cape size bulk carriers and post panamax con- tainerships The new floating dock will be ready for operation by July 2004.

The main particulars arc:

LOA 340.9 m

Inner breadth 32 m

Lifting capacity 48,000 Tons

Crane 20 Ton \ 2 Sets

Mav docking draft 9 m

This floating will be converted from a

VLCC by HRDD itself, the same as they did to the existing floating dock Hua

Dong about nine years ago.

This new floating dock will mainly focus on the cape size vessel including the latest model and the post panamax containers.

Moreover, the latest upgrade to yard facilities is almost completed: the exten- sion of repair wharf to a total length of 750 m with two new cranes one is 25 tons, the other 15 tons.

HRDD, by the end of this year will be in possession of a repair berth of 750 m in length with five cranes (one 32 tons, one 25 tons, and 3 15 tons).

HRDD also has plans to add a third floating dock, a unit targeting the Handy

Panamax size. Mid-2005 is the target date for this installation.

TORM Orders Two Ships from Dalian

Dampskibsselskabet TORM (TORM), a shipping company specializing in the worldwide commercial operation of a fleet of tankers and bulk carriers, signed a contract with Dalian New

Shipbuilding Ltd. in the People's

Republic of China for construction of two high specification 110,000 dwl

Aframax (LR2) product tankers. This order is based on the two options grant- ed when TORM placed the initial order for two vessels in June 2003.

TORM has an option for a further two vessels. The two vessels are due to be delivered in 1Q and 2Q 2007, and repre- sent the latest additions to the substan- tial newbuilding program initiated in 1999. The seven remaining newbuild- ings will be delivered in 2003-7 and rep- resent an investment of more than $250 million. * -I

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