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ABS, NAVSEA Sign

Agreement

ABS has signed a formal Cooperative

Agreement with the Naval Sea Systems

Command (NAVSEA) calling for joint development of ABS Naval Vessel

Rules (NVR) to support the design and acquisition of Naval Combatant Ships and Craft. The agreement signed by

VADM Phillip M. Balisle, U.S. Navy and ABS Americas President Robert E.

Kramek lays the groundwork for ABS participation in Naval Combatant Ship

Programs, in a similar fashion to ABS' traditional role in the construction of

Military Sealift Command (MSC) oper- ated ships.

Cascade Completes

NOAA Job

In the past year. Cascade General Inc., a Portland, Ore., shipyard, has complet- ed refurbishing one research ship for the

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA) and begun work on a second ship. NOAA's

Fairweather is a hydrographic survey ship first commissioned in 1968. but has been inactive for more than 12 years.

Cascade General began modernizing the ship on Feb. 10, 2003. The $15.5 mil- lion contract is expected to be complet- ed in Feb. 2004. Fairweather will oper- ate from its new homeport in Ketchikan.

Alaska, conducting hydrographic sur- veys for NOAA's nautical charting pro- gram. A contract for renovation and con- version of the NOAA ship Nancy Foster, a former Navy yard torpedo test craft, was awarded to Cascade General on

Nov. 20, 2001. After being refurbished at a total cost of $7.7 million, the ship departed the shipyard on Dec. 23, 2002.

Since becoming operational, Nancy

Foster has been conducting coastal oceanographic research along the East

Coast.

New KMY Board Member

Appointed

Ilkka Niemi has been appointed

Member of the Board of Directors of

Kvaerner Masa-Yards Inc. Niemi, a

Finnish citizen, has broad Finnish and international industry experience.

TEN Agrees to Suezmax

Time Charters

Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (TEN) announced new time-charter con- tracts for the Suezmaxes Decathlon and

Pentathlon with Petrobras. Each con- tract commences in October of 2003 extending for three years at a fixed rate for the first contract and a min-max rate for the second contract, with the oppor- tunity for profit sharing if the prevailing

November 2003 spot market dictates. Overall TEN has 18 vessels operating with medium or long-term employment contracts which account for 74 percent of estimated operating days or $37 million gross rev- enues for the remainder of 2003 and 57 percent for 2004 or $ 124 million in rev- enues, positively impacting earnings and enhancing shareholder value.

Telaurus Wins Tidewater

Contract

Telaurus Communications LLC of

Cedar Knolls, N.J., has been awarded a two-year contract to provide Tidewater

Inc. with Telaurus Communications' se@COMM family of communications solutions software, voice and data serv- ices for Tidewater's worldwide fleet of offshore oilfield supply vessels.

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Dreyfus Supply Acquires

Cortney Co.

Dreyfus Supply acquired Cortney

Company, a major New Orleans com- petitor in the marine industry. The com- bined company, now operating under the

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