Maritime Reporter, September 1997

<BODY> <div> Excellence from start to finish. Hi r ^ September, 1997 121 Service Marine Industries CONSTRUCTION • REPAIR • ENGINEERING 6887 Highway 90 • Gibson, Louisiana 70356 • Post Office Box 3606 • Morgan City, Louisiana 70381 Telephone: (504) 631-0511 • Fax: (504) 631-0036 Circle 394 on Reader Service Card uper Bandni Back On Line by Alan Thorpe, international editor [fter 25 years of not being used, the concrete floating dock, Super icini, which has been in the Port of 10a since the early 1970s, has finally on a 20 to 25-day voyage to its new — Tuzla Shipyard in Turkey. The 1,148-ft. (350-m) long, 330,000- k capacity floating dock was original- Ibuilt for use by the repair industry in }noa by Ente Bancino, the owner of the repair facilities in Genoa, awever, the large tanker market, for lich the unit was originally intended, langed dramatically during the late |)70s and the floating dock was never lally completed. The dock was pur- liased for $1 million, lit is expected that the dock will 3come operational by the end of the 3ar. |The first major repair contract to be iecuted in the facility will involve smi-submersible offshore rig Scarabeo I, which will be converted by Tuzla from an accommodation rig back to a drilling rig. One of the world's largest tankers, Papachristidis' 381,913-dwt ULCC Hellespont Capitol, has been booked into Dubai Drydocks for its next five-year special survey at a cost believed to be in excess of $4 mil- lion. This owner, which has a good rep- utation for the operation of its large tanker fleet, currently operates a five- year drydocking schedule for its ships. In the first four months of Dubai Drydocks' financial year (March 1st to the end of June) a total of 72 ships (8.9 million dwt) were reportedly repaired, including: nine ULCCs (3.2 million dwt); 11 VLCCs (3.05 million dwt); 25 tankers (1.6 million dwt); 10 bulk carri- ers (0.8 million dwt); 13 general cargo ships (0.2 million dwt); and four miscel- Keppel Singmarine Dockyard, the wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Marine Industries, has obtained ISO 9001 accreditation. </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>