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Hatlapa Expands in Asia

Hatlapa is widening its field overseas by expand- ing its Shanghai operation. Hatlapa Asia Pacific Pte

Ltd. Singapore, the umbrella organization for all of

Hatlapa’s Asian branches, was first founded in 1996. The Shanghai office was then registered in 1999, followed by an office in Nanjing in 2007.

Comyns Joins Intellian

Intellian hired marine electronics marketing vet- eran, Paul Comyns as Vice President of Global

Marketing, to drive worldwide awareness, messag- ing and positioning for Intellian and its extensive line of exceptional satellite TV, VSAT communica- tion and Fleetbroadband antennas.

New Ferry Contract at Custom Steel Boats

Custom Steel Boats, Inc. of Merritt, NC signed a contract with the Chatham Area Transit Authority located in Savannah, Ga., for the construction of a 67 ft. S-Class 150 Passenger Ferry. The project is scheduled for completion in September 2011 and will be delivered to Savannah for use in transport- ing passengers to and from the International Trade and Convention Center located on Hutchinson Is- land. The vessel was designed by DeJong and Lebet in to meet the needs of the Chatham Area Transit

Authority. After design approval by the United

States Coast Guard the vessel was computer lofted by Boksa Marine Design located in Lithia, Fla. The first load of steel for the vessel was delivered from

Metals USAin Mobile, Ala. on October 5, 2010.

Schottel Service Agreement,

North America

Schottel Inc. the US American subsidiary of the

German manufacturer of propulsion systems,

Schottel GmbH, signed a service cooperation agree- ment with CS Controls Inc. (CSC) in September 2010 at the SMM in Hamburg, Germany. With this agreement, CSC is assigned to undertake repairs, upgrades and overhauls of Schottel thrusters in

North America.

Teekay Offshore Acquires FPSO,

New Shuttle Tanker

Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. completed the ac- quisition of the Cidade de Rio das Ostras floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit from Teekay Corporation for a purchase price of ap- proximately $158m. The partnership also an- nounced that its 51 percent-owned subsidiary,

Teekay Offshore Operating L.P. (OPCO), has ac- quired the newbuilding shuttle tanker, the Amund- sen Spirit, from Teekay for approximately $128m and has agreed to acquire two additional newbuild- ing shuttle tankers, the Nansen Spirit and the Peary

Spirit, from Teekay for a total purchase price of $260m.

HB Rentals Secures Contracts

Global Offshore accommodation specialist HB

Rentals secured contracts worth in excess of $1.5m for modules on platforms in the North Sea. The contracts have been agreed with various companies including Petrofac, Lundin Britain, Ensco and E-

ON Rurghas.

Bourbon to Sell Bulk Freight Operations

Bourbon signed a letter of intent to sell its freight operator activity to a company which is 100% con- trolled by Jean-Louis Bottaro and his family. Bot- taro founded and managed Setaf from 1968 to 2008. In this sale the cement carrier Endeavor re- mains the property of Bourbon, who continues to operate it within the framework of a service con- tract with the buyer. "The development of our Freight Operator activ-

BALPURE Ballast Water Treatment System

Receives Final Approval

The BALPURE ballast water treatment system from Severn Trent De Nora received final approval from the International Maritime Organization's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) 61st session, 27 September to 1 October, 2010. Type approval of the BALPURE equipment is antic- pated in early 2011. “Electrochlorination-based ballast water treatment systems such as BALPURE are well suited for ships with high ballast water flow rates such as tankers and bulk carriers because of their low power consumption, especially when compared to other technologies,” said Marwan

Nesicolaci, Severn Trent Services’ vice president of international sales and business development,. “Additionally, the BALPURE system is easy to separate into smaller sub-assemblies to fit installa- tion requirements on retrofit or new construction vessels, minimizing changes to ship design. The sub-assembly design of the BALPURE system is exceptionally well suited for vessels with haz- ardous area rated-pump rooms (as required by

SOLAS rules).” www.severntrentservices.com