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Aker Yards to build AHTS for NorSkan Offshore

Aker Yards has been awarded a con- tract worth approximately $47.5 million by NorSkan Offshore Ltda., Brazil, to build an Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel. Delivery is scheduled for April 2007. NorSkan Offshore is an offshore supply vessel company owned by Solstad Offshore ASA and DOF ASA in Norway on a 50/50 basis, and is focusing on the strong Brazilian off- shore vessel market.

Teknotherm Takes Over

Unitor HVAC Business

Unitor Ships Equipment (now part of

Wilhelmsen Maritime Services) has reached anagreement with Teknotherm

AS to transfer its activities in the ship- building heating, ventilation and air con- ditioning (HVAC) market to

Teknotherm AS. The transfer includes

HVAC products, a group of engineers in

Poland as well as Unitor's order backlog of HVAC systems.

Teknotherm will represent a continua- tion of Unitor's HVAC activities in the shipbuilding market with respect to technical solutions, market contacts as well as after-sales and service capabili- ties. Unitor will continue to strengthen its refrigeration spares and service offer, and Teknotherm will, through a separate agreement, appoint Unitor as HVAC service subcontractor at selected loca- tions.

Teknotherm AS was founded in 1926 and has grown to be a worldwide manu- facturer and supplier of marine refriger- ation systems.

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Aker To Build AHTS for

Farstad

Aker Yards signed a contract worth $69 million to build an Anchor Handling

Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS) for Farstad

Supply AS, to be delivered in the sum- mer 2007.

Farstad Supply AS is wholly owned by

Farstad Shipping ASA.

The new vessel will be the most advanced within the Farstad-fleet. The 27,500-hp vessel will be one of the biggest and most advanced vessels with- in its segment.

Vessel type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .UT 732 CD, . . . . . . . . . . . . .Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel

Contract value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$69 million

Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Aker Brattvaag, Langsten

Delivery time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Summer 2007

Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304 ft. (92.7 m)

Deadweight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4,800 tons

Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rolls-Royce Marine

ShipConstructor Supports

STEP Import/Export

Albacore Research Ltd. (ARL) are cooperating on the development of a translator that will enable

ShipConstructor to import and export

STEP files containing pipe, HVAC, and equipment data.

This will enhance ShipConstructor's interoperability in large shipyard envi- ronments, allow organizations to more easily access legacy data, and simplify the long term storage and retrieval of archival product model data throughout the entire product lifecycle. IPT is developing the translators using the all- new ShipConstructor Application

Programming Interface (API) creating intelligent distributed system objects directly in the ShipConstructor Product

Model Database.

Initially, IPT will develop a translator that enables ShipConstructor to import and export STEP files containing pipe,

HVAC, and equipment data. IPT will also develop complementary tools that allow pipe shops to use STEP data most effectively.

Subsequent development of the trans- lator will focus on additional data types, such as ship hull molded forms and ship structures.

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Ulrich Freudenberger, Managing Director at Inter Seas Services and Trading GmbH, NORDERSTEDT, GERMANY

Ulrich Freudenberger and Maike Pabst, Managing Directors

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