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Damen Makes

Sweeping Changes

Holland's Damen Group will reor- ganize its four shiprepair yards in the port of Rotterdam as of January 1, 2004, into one completely new shiprepair company that will operate under the name Damen Shiprepair

Rotterdam BV. The four yards to be consolidated are Rotterdam United

Dockyard, Niehuis & van den Berg

BV, Vlaardingen Oost Shiprepair BV and Van Brink Shipyard BV. At headquarters in Schiedam (the

Rotterdam United facility), the man- agement team will consist of hans

Godlieb, managing director; Steef

Staal, director sales & marketing; and Ad Davidse, director of opera- tions and services.

Circle 30 on Reader Service Card its kind newbuilding LNG FPSO vessel.

Wynn designed the system around two of its most durable wipers, the Type C and Type 1800. The Sanha Project LPG

FPSO vessel is in production at the IHI

Kure Shipyard in Japan and will be completed in July 2004.

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Bachrach & Wood Has New Owner

Bachrach & Wood, formed in 1953 to provide marine surveying and consul- tancy services, has been sold to James

Baily, and the company's headquarters will move from New Orleans to Morgan

City.

Stelmar Announces Sale-Lease Back

Stelmar Shipping Ltd. completed, with the assistance of the Fortis Bank, a seven-year sale-lease back transaction for two of its coated Aframax tankers, the 1998-built Takamar and the 1999- built Jacamar. The deal will produce net proceeds of $71 million. Both vessels will remain in the Stelmar fleet and will continue to earn in excess of $19,000 per day for the balance of their existing time charters of more than two years.

Stelmar will realize net cash from the sale of $25 million and will record a non-operating book gain of $1 million.

Use of E Paint's SN-1 Bottom Coating in Ocean Gray color was specified to meet the Navy's goal to improve overall ship visual camouflage.

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V.Ships to Piiot Test New Software

Resurgence Software, Inc. said that V.

Ships Group, Ltd. has agreed to pilot the

Wave Equipment Optimization System for a portion of its fleet. The Wave sys- tem will be used to identify maintenance trends that are not easily identifiable without Wave software's unique set of analysis tools.

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Coastal Marine Wins Refit Deal

Coastal Marine Equipment. Inc. is manufacturing mooring winches for retrofit on several existing ocean going barges. Two hydraulic mooring winch- es will be supplied to Gulf Marine

Repair for installation on barge DBL 105 for K-Sea Transportation (Staten

Island). Six two-speed electric mooring winches will be supplied to Penn

Maritime for installation on their barges.

These projects are in addition to projects for Sause Brothers Ocean Towing (Portland) and Penn Maritime.

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Wynn to Outfit First LNG FPSO

Wynn Marine received an order from

IHI Marine to supply the window wiper system for the Sanha Project, a first of

AMOS Connect for Iridium

Xantic announced that the basic ver- sion of AMOS Connect is now capable of working over the Iridium platform. A free of charge CD of this premium qual- ity email service can be ordered from

Xantic's website or the software can be directly downloaded and installed.

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MOBY Acquires Vessel

Moby Spa reached an agreement with

DFDS to acquire Prince of Scandinavia, which will be renamed Moby Drea and will operate on the Livorno-Olbia-

Livorno itinerary. Moby Drea will join the 15 other vessels of Moby fleet, and was to arrive in Italy this month to undergo a complete technical and struc- tural refit. It is scheduled to start operat- ing at the end of May 2004.

MAN B&W Wins Contracts

MAN B&W Diesel has won orders for engines from the 48/60B and 58/64 medium-speed series for 11 container vessels at three Chinese shipyards. The recently ordered diesel engines are intended for the propulsion of container feeders from the German shipping com- panies Werner Bockstiegel, Hermann

Buss and Peter Doehle. To date, a total of 101 MAN B&W engines, at a capac- ity of approx. one million hp, manufac- tured at the Augsburg location, have been ordered from China; 48 engines at a capacity of 400,000 hp during the course of this year alone.

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E-Paint Gets USN Authroization

E Paint announced that the U.S. Navy has authorized E Paint SN-1 antifouling paint for use on small boats and craft.

General Maritime Options Taken

General Maritime Corp. said options have been exercised to time charter three additional Aframax OBO vessels for two years. The contracts for the these three vessels will provide net voyage revenue to General Maritime in the first year of approximately $21 million and could provide an additional $21 million in the second year through the exercis- ing of the charterer's option.

Vector and MPS to Provide Joint

Delivery of ISPS Services

Vector Maritime Software and

Maritime Protection Systems (MPS) have announced their joint services to clients to implement the forthcoming

ISPS requirements using the Vector

Management System

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Tribon Solutions announced that the 200,000th product has been pub- lished on Tribon.com for access by shipyard designers and design agents globally. An anchor windlass from China's Wuhan Marine

Machinery Plant (WMMP) was the company with the 200,000th prod- uct. Using Tribon.com shipbuilders can access, download and integrate accurate product information direct- ly into their design.

January 2004

YOU CAN BE FINED $25,000 PER VIOLATION FOR FAILURE

TO COMPLY WITH MTSA MANDATES

Contact SOLUTIONS GROUP INTERNATIONAL immediately to receive assistance in complying with these critical mandates as outlined in Title 33 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The compliance deadline is July 01, 2004.

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Experience," we are able to provide our clients with "Real World Solutions." •Vessel Security Assessments and Security Plans • Port Facility Security Assessments and Security Plans • Security Assessments and Security Plans exceed ISPS Code and 33 CFR Compliance • Designation of a Company Security Officer (CSO) • Designation of a Vessel Security Officer (VSO) • Designation of a Facility Security Officer (FSO) •Training for personnel involved in the Security Plan • Physical Security Validation and Verification Exercises intl.

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