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Smiths Detection at

Port of Providence

Smiths Detection announced the award of a contract for its FirstView early warn- ing chemical threat detection and video management system to be installed at the

Port of Providence, R.I. Funded through a competitive Department of Homeland

Security grant, the system will alert au- thorities to chemical hazards in the port area and provide real-time video and sen- sor data to first responders and emer- gency personnel. It combines Smiths

Detection’s chemical detection capabili- ties (Centurion II) and FirstView video and sensor management software with

Raytheon’s Athena command and control system to monitor traffic in Narragansett

Bay. Using radar, Geographic Informa- tion System (GIS) systems and long- range video cameras, vessels can be remotely identified and tracked from the harbor entrance at Newport to the load- ing docks at the Port of Providence.

Hybrid Tug to Get a Sister

Foss Maritime Company, builder and operator of the world's first hybrid tug- boat, will soon add another pioneering vessel to its Southern California fleet with the help of an air quality grant ob- tained by the Port of Long Beach. Build- ing on the success of Foss' Carolyn

Dorothy hybrid tug, which was launched into service at the Port of Long Beach in 2009, Foss will retrofit an existing tug with hybrid technology for service in San

Pedro Bay, thanks to a $1 million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to the Port. The project will be implemented through a partnership be- tween Foss, the Port of Long Beach, and the Port of Los Angeles.

Construction to Start on New

Damen Vinashin Shipyard

On August 19, 2010 the signing cere- mony for the start of construction of the new shipbuilding facility of Damen

Vinashin Shipyard in Haiphong, Vietnam took place in the head offices of the Viet- nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) in Hanoi. Nguyen Duy Hung,

Vice Operations Director of Song Cam

Shipyard signed together with Erik van der Noordaa, Chief Operations Officer of the Damen Shipyards Group in The

Netherlands. Song Cam Shipyard has been allocated by Vinashin to act as the local partner in the construction and op- eration of the new shipyard which is a joint venture between Vinashin and

Damen. Completion of the first phase of the project is planned for February 2012.

In the first phase the shipyard will con- centrate on the outfitting, under cover, of hulls built by Song Cam Shipyard. Ca- pacity is approximately twelve vessels per year, all current orders are for export.

ACMA Relocates Office

Alan C. McClure Associates (ACMA) relocated its corporate office to 2929 Bri- arpark, Suite 220, Houston, Texas 77042. “Although we moved less than a mile from our original location that served the company for 35 years, our new location has given us the opportunity to reorganize our offices to better fit the growth we’ve experienced over the past decade,” said

ACMA Vice President Darrel Harvey.

Company phone and fax numbers, as well as e-mail addresses, all remain the same.