Representatives of Blohm & Voss AG, Hamburg, West Germany, signed a contract in Moscow recently with the Soviet foreign trade organization, Sudoimport, for the design, construction, and delivery of a special service vessel for the USSR's Ministry of the Gas Industry.
The vessel is a 26,800-dwt jacket- launching barge capable of transporting jackets up to 18,000 tons for offshore platforms from the building yard to locations in the Caspian Sea, and then lower the jacket on site under controlled conditions.
The barge will be 163 meters long, by 45 meters wide, and 12 meters deep (about 535 feet by 148 feet by 39 feet). Delivery is scheduled for mid-1983. Tliis is the second order Blohm & Voss has received from the USSR.
Previously the company delivered the crane ship Aserbajdshan, with a lifting capacity of 2,500 tons, also for use in the Caspian Sea.
been appointed the exclusive, authorized U.S. service representative for the complete line of marine mechanical engineering products manufactured by Blohm + Voss AG of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany. Under the new agreement, Bird-Johnson's service representatives will install, survey and repair
The 900-ton, heavy-duty floating derrick Tog Mor (shown above) was delivered recently by Blohm + Voss AG, Hamburg. Built for Howard Doris Ltd. of Edinburgh, the derrick's hull is 101.4 meters long and 27.4 meters wide (about 332.7 by 89.9 feet). It has been towed to Loch Kishorn yard in Scotland.
this year, the ship would be built by a consortium of four major West German shipbuilders—Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werke AG (HDW), Bremer Vulkan AG, Blohm & Voss AG and Thyssen Nordseewerke— at a cost estimated to be over $1 billion. Operation of the ship is scheduled to commence in 1993. Described
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am—Discussion and coffee break. 11:15 am—"Semi Server—the Economic Solution for Making Underwater Building Elements Accessible," by Gerd Elbel, Blohm + Voss AG. 11:45 am—Discussion. 12 noon—Luncheon. Afternoon Session Chairman—H. Wilckens, Thyssen Nordseewerke. 1:30 pm—"Preservation of Oceanologica
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Use Three Barges To Lay 120-Mile Pipeline Santa Fe International Corp., Orange, Calif., has extended its contract with the German Ship- builder Blohm & Voss A.G. to in- clude modifications to the pipelay- ing barge Choctaw II, presently under construction at the Blohm & Voss yard in Hamburg
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