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January 2006 11 improved beaches. Designated as a day- boat the RoRo landing craft will operate

June to mid-September and be hauled out of the lake, prior to freeze up. Fully loaded the vessel draws just over three feet of water.

NASSCO Wins Repair

Contract

National Steel and Shipbuilding

Company (NASSCO) won a seven-year contract for the continuous maintenance and repair of four LSD-41/49 class ships and four LPD-4 class ships for the U.S.

Navy. The contract includes one dry- docking and 12 non-docking availabili- ties and has an estimated total value of $200 million over the seven-year period.

Contract for Double-Hull

Tug/Barge Unit

The Manitowoc Company announced that Vane Line Bunkering, Inc. has awarded Manitowoc Marine Group (MMG) a contract for the construction of a 480-ft., 145,000-barrel, double- hulled hot oil tank barge and an accom- panying 6,000-hp tug. The oceangoing articulated tug and barge (ATB) unit is slated for delivery in fourth quarter of 2006. This contract also provides Vane

Brothers with an option for an identical

ATB unit to be delivered in the third quarter of 2007. Other contract terms were not disclosed.

Singapore Launches

Stealth Frigate

Singapore launched the Republic of

Singapore Navy's (RSN) fifth stealth frigate, RSS Stalwart, from the

Singapore Technologies Marine ship- yard, according to a report on www.chi- naview.cn. RSS Stalwart joined the RSN as the fourth frigate since the Ministry of Defense (MINDEF) started a

Formidable-class frigate program a decade ago. According to the program,

RSN will acquire a total of six new stealth frigates to replace its Missile

Gunboats that have been in service for more than 30 years. Designed by

Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN), the frigates are equipped with advanced sensor and weapon systems.

The first of six, RSS Formidable, was built by DCN and launched in 2004.

Martek Equipment for

Qatar LNGs

Martek Marine Ltd. won a contract for supply of engine emissions monitoring systems for a series of new LNG carriers built by DSME in South Korea. The vessels are being built on behalf of the

German owner PRONAV for the Qatar

Gas II project and will transport LNG between Qatar and Milford Haven in the

UK. The MariNOx systems will monitor emissions from two main and four aux- iliary diesel engines, measuring

NOx/SOx/CO2 emissions from each engine.

DEXTER Health

Monitoring Software

MACSEA Ltd. recently announced the commercial release of DEXTER, ver- sion 4.0, targeted at Health Monitoring of Marine Equipment for the marine industry. DEXTER is software designed to automate the monitoring, analysis and diagnoses of equipment health in marine environments. It targets both the warn- ing signs of impending failure and the recognition of small problems that can lead to larger failures. It does this by detecting trends and patterns that even highly experienced engineers have diffi- culty seeing.

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