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T&T SHIPBUILDING & REPAIR (S&R) CLUSTER

Diversifying our Economy, one Ship at a time©...

First and foremost, a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our S&R friends and colleagues! This promises to be a year filled with surprises, but as Eastern philosophy points out, every crisis is fraught with both danger and opportunity. We believe that for us, this can be a time of great opportunity if approached with the right view. The S&R Cluster looks forward to 2009 and the commencement of its strategic plan that will assist in diversifying our local economy.

Successful ‘End of Year’ Meeting held at MTI Headquarters on December 18th 2008.

We look forward to meeting with you in 2K9 and invite all to participate in our world renowned Carnival, to be held next month on February 23rd & 24th. Sincerely, T&T Shipbuilding and Repair Cluster. Wilfred de Gannes Deputy Leader. E-mail: [email protected]

Our S&R ‘End of Year’ meeting was held on Level 11 at the Ministry of Trade and Industry Headquarters, Nicholas Tower, Port of Spain, on December 18th 2008 where discussions centered around upcoming plans for this year.

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RUSSIAN WARSHIPS CRUISE INTO T&T’S BACK YARD Russian warships arrived in Venezuela, for the first time in regional waters since the Cold War, ahead of a two-day visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It was a major symbolic show of military and diplomatic force as Russia moves to underscore its international heft amid intense frustration with Washington over a European-based missile shield and over the war in Georgia. Oil-rich Venezuela is among the staunchest US critics worldwide. The Venezuelan navy welcomed the warships, including the nuclear-powered cruiser “Peter the Great” and destroyer “Admiral Chabankenko”, at the northern port of La Guaira, located 329 nautical miles from Port of Spain, for a week of joint maneuvers.

The ‘Admiral Chabanenko’ (built 1995), Russian anti-submarine destroyer.

Medvedev was due for a two-day visit, before heading to communist Cuba, to promote ties and oversee the start of the exercises, as Moscow seeks to rebuild influence in the Americas that eroded after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and even expand it. The exercises, dubbed VenRus 2008, would take first take place in dock and then at sea on December 1st, Vice Admiral Luis Morales Marquez, a Venezuelan Operations Commander, told journalists here. The aim was to "strengthen links of friendship and solidarity with the Russian fleet and the Bolivarian national armed forces," Marquez said. "We carried out maneuvers with Brazil recently, with France, with the Netherlands and now with Russia," Chavez said. But analysts see the Russian leader as boldly bringing a defiant message to Washington's doorstep, in the wake of Russian outrage at US plans to install a strategic missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, and support for the brief Georgia war in August.

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"If the Venezuelans and the Russians want to have, you know, a military exercise, that's fine, but we'll obviously be watching it very closely," US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday in Washington. "I don't think there's any question about who the region looks to in terms of political, economic, diplomatic and as well as military power," McCormack added. The US has expressed concern, however, about Russian arms supplies to the oil-rich OPEC country.

L-R: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev

onboard the ‘Admiral Chabanenko’ (built 1995) which docked at La Guaira port, Venezuela.

The two countries have signed 4.4 billion dollars in bilateral arms deals since 2005, including radars, 24 Sukhoi-30 planes, 50 helicopters and 100,000 Kalashnikovs. Medvedev was expected to expand arms deals during his visit, as well as economic and energy ties, including plans for a joint civilian nuclear reactor. Some 1,600 Russian forces traveling on four Russian ships joined 700 Venezuelans for the exercises. Venezuela was due to mobilize three frigates, an amphibious warfare ship and eight patrol boats, as well as Sukhoi planes recently purchased from Russia. Marquez suggested more exercises could take place in Russian waters at a later date. A Russian naval spokesman said in Moscow that the exercises would include operation planning, helping ships in distress and supplying ships on the move. "Until a few years ago, we did a lot of maneuvers with the United States. Now we don't do maneuvers with the United States, of course. We got out of that defense system and we're creating our own system of defense," Chavez said.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathon Kozol

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YANTAI RAFFLES DEBUTS WORLD'S STRONGEST SHIPYARD CRANE

Yantai Raffles Shipyard Limited (“YRS”) celebrated the much anticipated First Commercial Lift by ‘Taisun’ amidst a blaze of fireworks and the expectant gaze of the 750 strong local as well as international guests who were all gathered at the Yantai Raffles Shipyard in Shandong, China, to witness this momentous event. ‘Taisun’, a crane with an unparalleled 20,000 MT capacity, lifted the massive 14,000 MT Deckbox of COSL Drilling Europe AS Semi submersible Drilling Rig, the ‘COSLPioneer’, and mated it onto the Columns and Hull of the Rig in one single operation, demonstrating an unprecedented feat within the industry.

In April 2008, ‘Taisun' demonstrated its full strength by setting a new Guinness World Record of 20,133 MT, for the heaviest weight lifted by a crane.

In a statement after the ceremony, Mr. Niels Haakman, General Manager of ‘Taisun,’ said, “We are all very excited and wish to extend our thanks and gratitude to COSL and all our staff and subcontractors, without whom the enormous success of this operation would not have been possible. Today, the team at Yantai Raffles has shown that we can design, plan and execute the complete mating operation of the deck box and lower Hull to the dot. With the whole operation completed in a span of less than 2 weeks, we have demonstrated that ‘Taisun’ can assemble one semi submersible every month, including the installation of the drill tower. Currently our highly trained welders are completing the welding seams so that the completed ‘COSLPioneer’ can be released from the crane within the next few days. The mating operation was successfully executed in spite of the strong winds and scattered snow of Shandong’s unpredictable winter. With ‘Taisun’, the mating operation is able to take place within a safe and controllable environment, a departure from traditional rig-building methodologies, where the assembly of the rig takes place in open waters, leaving it vulnerable to adverse weather conditions.

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Taisun’s Mating of the ‘COSLPioneer’

‘Taisun’ enabled the concurrent construction of the ‘COSLPioneer’ Deck box and Hull bringing about increased efficiency in project execution, significant improvements in project man-hours by up to 2 million, overall cost savings and more yard capacity for YRS. With the hours spent working at precarious heights dramatically reduced, safety levels and quality are also greatly enhanced. “I wish to congratulate COSL and look forward to a long term and fruitful strategic co-operation with COSL. ‘Taisun’ marks a fresh chapter in offshore engineering and construction. We believe that this new construction methodology will create tremendous, mutually beneficial value for us and our clients,” said Mr Brian Chang, Deputy Chairman of YRS, during his speech at the ceremony. YRS has received a high level of interest from contractors and owners who wish to use the crane to aid their building strategy and ‘Taisun’ is already scheduled for 8 lifts, each exceeding 10,000 MT. This cutting edge new technology truly redefines the rig-building landscape.

‛Taisun’ has garnered several prestigious awards such as the ASME Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award 2008 and the OTC Spotlight on New Technology Award 2008.

‛COSLPioneer’ semi-submersible rig is designed by Global Maritime and has been approved by Det Norske Veritas. The rig is equipped with a dynamic positioning system Class 3 (DP3), which enables operations in the acute environment in north Norwegian waters.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Shipyard Clusters to dot India’s Gujarat Coastline - Jan 13th 2008

From housing the world's largest ship-breaking yard, Gujarat is now gunning for the status of a global ship-building hub. Gujarat government has decided to take a cluster approach for building shipyards along the state's 1,600km long coastline. The cluster approach which is going to be a part of the new ship-building policy and is likely to be announced ahead of the Vibrant Gujarat summit on January 12th -13th will help of top names in the ship-building sector such as Bharti Shipyards, Jindal Shipyards and Pipavav Shipyards to develop shipbuilding yards next to Ghogha, Dahej and Pipavav, respectively.

"Apart from these, Singapore-based ship-builders such as Keppel and Jurong, have shown interest in developing shipyards along the state's coastline. They are likely to come to Gujarat to explore possibilities for investment during the Vibrant Gujarat summit. We believe, an investment of around Rs 50,000 crore may come up in ship-building yards over the next few years," a senior official said.

LNG carrier with Shipment from Trinidad loses power – December 29th 2008

The 920-ft Suez Matthew (built 1979), carrying 31 people and a full load of LNG from Trinidad to Boston, temporarily lost propulsion east of Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Propulsion was restored within the hour and the ship executed a successful test of propulsion. The US Coast Guard Cutter ‘Jefferson Island’ and the commercial tugs ‘Liberty’ and ‘Freedom’ then escorted it to an anchorage in Broad Sound. After several hours of troubleshooting, repair specialists determined that a malfunctioning control valve had partially stuck in an open position, causing back pressure and subsequent failure of the turbo charger.

The ‘Suez Mathew’ has become a critical means by which the New England region receives its natural gas. The ship, one of several in the SUEZ Fleet, makes regular deliveries directly from Trinidad to SUEZ LNG North America’s import facility in Everett, Massachusetts. The Everett Terminal, which is the first LNG import facility ever built in the United States, currently serves approximately 20 percent of the region’s natural gas demand for home heating, industrial use, and electricity production.

Stakeholders will recall that a similar event occurred in February 2008, 35 miles off Chatham.

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Hornblower wins Contract for Trinidad Ferry Fleet - December 22nd 2008

Hornblower Marine Services (HMS) announced that the National Infrastructure Development Company Limited (NIDCO), a Trinidad and Tobago state owned enterprise, has awarded HMS the contract for the Trinidad passenger fast ferry fleet in the southern Caribbean.

“The Water Taxi Project of the National Infrastructure Development Company is intended to reduce traffic on the heavily traveled North-South corridor between Trinidad's two largest cities,” said Hornblower Vice President of Operations Gary Seabrook. “The service is commuter-oriented and will begin operations with four high-speed passenger vessels with four additional vessels added over the next two years as other routes are included to the service. Hornblower Marine Services, Trinidad-Ltd. will operate the ferries on behalf of NIDCO and is pleased to be following up our Bahamas Fast Ferries experience with a second Caribbean opportunity.”

Shipbuilding to be part of Canada's Economic Stimulus - Dec 16th 2008 The Canadian Government is planning to hold a "shipbuilding summit" early in the New Year. According to Canadian press reports, the Government wants to make shipbuilding programs part of its economic stimulus package. The catch is that the shipbuilding programs involved are not new and will be supported from funds already earmarked for the construction of navy supply ships, patrol boats and icebreakers. Earlier this year, Public Works, the federal government's tendering arm, halted a $2.9 billion replacement process for the navy's Joint Support Ship and also pulled the plug on a $340 million proposal to build 12 coast guard inshore patrol vessel.

Bangladesh the new focus for Small Oceangoing Vessels - Dec 12th 2008

Bangladesh is increasingly becoming the focus point for owners seeking to build small oceangoing vessels.

Industry insiders said that Bangladesh is now getting more orders of this kind as South Korea and China set their sights on building larger ships.

The Ananda Shipyard was said to be in talks with some two dozen buyers to sign contracts over the last few months. Last April, the shipyard raked in US$100 million worth of deals with German shipping companies to build eight vessels by June 2010, Asiasis reported.

“Bangladesh produces mainly small and medium sized vessels for European buyers,” Saiful Islam, Chairman of Chittagong-based Western Marine was quoted as saying in Asiasis. “The financial downturn did not dampen demand for those vessels. We don’t see any drop in orders in the coming years.”

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UAE'S HAMRIYAH ZONE TO SET UP MARITIME CITY Construction work is well underway on the 500,000 square meter Hamriyah Maritime City in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, which aims to capture companies from the regional growth in the offshore oil and gas and marine business. Dredging work for the harbour basins and quay walls is almost complete and contractors have started infrastructure construction. The first tenant companies are expected to move into the complex in the first quarter of 2010 with final completion scheduled for 2011.

The privately-owned complex, in the heart of the existing Hamriyah Free Zone, is the brainchild of Adnan Al Najjar, the President and CEO, and fellow equity partners, Kuwaiti businessmen Saad Al Wazzan and Saqer Al Mousherji. The Hamriyah Maritime City concept is unaffected by the credit crunch and the venture has not sought external financing. It has no plans to slow development, Al Najjar said.

Capable of handling vessels of up to 12,000 tonnes, Hamriyah Maritime City is to offer comprehensive facilities for shipyard operators and maritime related industries.

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Adnan Al Najjar, President and CEO, pictured with model City.

While other sectors such as real estate may be affected by the downturn, industrial developments such as Hamriyah Maritime City

still have huge potential, he added.

For this kind of business in this region, the future is excellent and promising. The region has a shortage of ship repairers, builders and related services which are still

very much in the growth phase.

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It will have 210,000 square meters of dry berthing space and 1,700 meters quay walls for wet berthing. The city will also have major ship lifting facilities for vessels up to 5,250 tonnes. A large labour complex capable of accommodating more than 5,000 shipyard workers is also planned within a community complex including recreational facilities. An office complex will provide maritime support services including ship brokers, marine surveyors, classification societies, naval architects and offshore operators. Satellite shipyards will be served by supporting workshops with a full range of infrastructure and logistics. These yards will also be covered to raise productivity and quality. The city will also incorporate 50,000 square meters for the motor yacht business with its own clubhouse and mooring facilities. A retail complex has been designed to provide spare parts, industrial equipment, ship chandelling, accessories and related maritime merchandise. In-house training facilities to support the marine and shipyard industry are also planned with training packages for port handling operations, shipyards and oil and gas safety.

Hamriyah Maritime City offers a 100 per cent tax-free environment, company ownership, exemption from all

levies and repatriation of capital and profits.

'Our aim is to offer an attractive enclave for shipowners to keep their vessels maintained to serve a growing and demanding market,' Al Najjar said. 'Essentially, Hamriyah Maritime City has been planned as an integrated maritime industrial city with comprehensive facilities providing a one stop for solution for the industry.'

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OFFSHORE OIL & GAS NEWS

J RAY MCDERMOTT WRAPS UP GIG ON POINSETTIA FIELD

Houston-based J Ray McDermott, a subsidiary of McDermott International, has completed its portion of a contract with BG Trinidad & Tobago for work on the Poinsettia field development project in offshore northern coast of Trinidad in waters 530 feet deep.

The contract was awarded to a consortium between J Ray and Fluor Daniel South America, a subsidiary of Fluor Corporation. J Ray undertook procurement, design and fabrication of a 9100-tonne, 4-leg, 12-skirt jacket and 4656 tonnes of piles, and had 375 people involved on the project at peak construction. Design work was completed at J Ray’s engineering office in Houston and construction took place at the company’s fabrication facility in Morgan City, Louisiana.

“This was the second jacket we delivered for transport to Trinidad within a one-month period,” added Bob Deason, President and CEO of J. Ray McDermott. “We look forward to continuing our relationship with BG T&T and further assisting them in increasing the energy supply to their country and bringing energy to market in this important region of the world.”

Consortium leader Fluor performed overall project management and fabricated the 4267-tonne topsides using Trinidad-based TOFCO, a joint venture of Louisiana, US-based Chet Morrison Contractors and Trinidad-based Weldfab.

EOG, “Toucan” and bpTT, “Savonette” topsides are scheduled to be launched in early 2009 from the Labidco Industrial Estate, La Brea, by Trinidad Offshore Fabricators Unlimited (TOFCO).

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Fluor / TOFCO will perform the final platform commissioning through to mechanical completion.

Having completed the project, the Derrick / J-Lay Barge “DB50” (built 1988) returned to the US where it began preparing for its next project in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Poinsettia project is part of BG T&T’s North Coast Marine Area (NCMA) Phase 3 field development to supply gas to trains 2, 3, and 4 of Atlantic LNG in Point Fortin, South Trinidad.

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J. RAY MCDERMOTT AWARDED ANGOSTURA FABRICATION CONTRACT

Houston-based J. Ray McDermott, a subsidiary of McDermott International, Inc., has been awarded a fabrication contract by BHP Billiton (Trinidad-2C) Limited for the Angostura Gas Export Platform project located 22 miles offshore the northeast coast of Trinidad.

Under the terms of the agreement, J. Ray will fabricate a 4,000-ton integrated topside platform; an 800-ton, four-legged jacket; and 1,000 tons of piles. The construction of these structures will take place at J. Ray’s Morgan City, Louisiana fabrication facility.

The award of the fabrication work for BHP Billiton is excellent news for our Morgan

City fabrication facility, said Bob Deason, President and CEO of J. Ray McDermott. “This project marks the third time in the recent past that Morgan City has performed the fabrication for facilities destined for Trinidad. Our customers depend on the quality and the schedule assurance that J. Ray delivers.”

At peak, J. Ray will have almost 200 people in Morgan City working on the project. Work is expected to be completed in second quarter 2010.

The Greater Angostura Development is located in block 2C offshore Trinidad and Tobago.

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ROLLS-ROYCE WATERJETS TO POWER NEW DUBAI WATER TAXIS A fleet of innovative new water taxis powered by Rolls-Royce waterjets is being introduced in Dubai by the Road Transport Authority (RTA) to help improve transport infrastructure in the fast-growing United Arab Emirates state.

The first of ten catamaran-based vessels, a modern version of the

traditional abra water taxi, is scheduled to carry out sea trials in August 2009. This is the first order for waterjets for water taxis in the UAE, where Rolls-Royce, the world leader in marine propulsion, is already a supplier of marine, aerospace and energy power systems in the region. Deliveries are due to be completed by early 2010 and, if the water taxis prove successful, there is significant potential for future orders from the RTA. Each water taxi is capable of more than 30 knots and will be able to carry 11 passengers. They will work around the Dubai Creek as well as the Dubai coast to provide a more modern, flexible and integrated public transport service.

Esa Uotinen, Rolls-Royce Regional Manager – Marine said:

Waterjets are ideal for these taxis because they a practical way of driving fast vessels and are most efficient at speeds of about 30 knots and upwards. They are lightweight, simple to maintain and provide excellent maneuverability. The taxis to be built by the Damen shipyard in the Netherlands will each have a pair of FF310 waterjets built by Rolls-Royce at Kokkola in Finland.

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SHIPBUILDERS ARGUE AGAINST IMO SHIP DESCRIPTION PLAN Shipbuilders in the European Union and Japan are to attempt to amend an International Maritime Organization (IMO) plan for ships to carry detailed descriptions of their designs. The Community of European Shipyards’ Associations (Cesa) and Japan have submitted a joint paper to the IMO’s maritime safety committee arguing that detailed plans pose a risk to their yards’ intellectual property. While recognising that design transparency is “important in order to ensure the structural safety of the ship”, the paper points out that innovation is “equally essential for the improvement of safety”. Europe and Japan, which boast cutting-edge technologies in ship design, believe that “sustaining development and innovation in all the shipbuilding technology fields should be essential for the attainment of our goal to improve maritime safety and environmental protection”. A draft of the committee’s design transparency initiative states that a description of the procedures to ensure that ships’ structural related technical correspondence between shipyards and subcontractors is made available at the request of classification society, owner and/or flag state. The two parties point out that, if approved, “more extensive design information than ever” would be available to all, and hence “frequent infringements on the intellectual property rights or impediments to fair competition” would arise. Shipbuilders are particularly worried that their “advanced hull form and structural design methodologies” could be copied. They suggest the insertion of the phrase “with due consideration to intellectual property rights” in the draft text. Without this change, the amount of information in a ship’s construction file would be “totally excessive”, said Cesa secretary-general Reinhard Lüken. “There would be a lot of sensitive information in there with commercial value,” Mr Lüken said. “The intellectual property concerns could be totally ignored, and this would be a disincentive to innovation.” Shipbuilders in the EU and Japan are concerned that without such intellectual property protection they would lose their niche constructing high-value specialist vessels such as cruiseships and offshore vessels to other yards in Asia where labour costs are much lower, particularly South Korea and China.

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EURONAV NV TAKES DELIVERY OF KOREA'S FIRST VLCC BUILT BY HHI TO NEW COMMON STRUCTURAL RULES AND LLOYD'S REGISTER CLASS Ship's performance to benefit from navigational and green class notations

‛Olympia’ has a length of 319 meters, a breadth of 60 meters, with engine power of 29,340 kW.

Antwerp-based Euronav NV has taken delivery of the first very large crude carrier (VLCC) built to the industry's new Common Structural Rules (CSR) by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Korea.

The 318,000-deadweight tonne ‘Olympia’, constructed to Lloyd's Register class, is the first of two sister-ships being built by Euronav at HHI to advanced environmental protection and safety standards for deployment in the demanding oil transportation industry.

"As the first VLCC built in Korea to CSR, ‘Olympia’ is a milestone in the drive towards the construction of ever-safer tankers," says Marinos Syrigos, Site Manager for Euronav Ship Management (Hellas) Ltd. "We are certainly proud of having undertaken a key role - together with Lloyd's Register and Hyundai - in such an important project."

Euronav's management have committed to maintaining 'green passports' for ‘Olympia’ and her sistership, ‘Antarctica’, assuring that the materials used and installed on the vessels during the owner's possession are recorded, demonstrating their commitment to the environment. This record is ultimately critical to the safe scrapping of the vessels at the end of their trading lives.

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They have also selected a higher standard of bridge layout and visibility and achieved the requirements of NAV1 notation from Lloyd's Register to improve the safe operation of the vessel, choosing advanced technical features which are expected to prove particularly valuable in the increasingly congested waters of the world's major trade lanes.

According to Lindsay Butler, the Project Manager for Lloyd's Register Asia, the delivery of the ‘Olympia’ has ushered in the next generation of tankers from Korean shipyards, ships built under CSR rules that offer the technical advances and innovation required by the industry and society at large.

"This robust ship has raised the standards by increasing the requirements for strength and durability and by developing transparent requirements for fatigue assessment and corrosion, maintaining a direct link between design and the anticipated operational demands throughout all phases of her construction," Butler says. "Euronav is demonstrating their commitment to the industry by offering the services of a ship with our Green Passport and Environmental Protection notations. They combined those features with a hi-tech bridge layout, completing the package of a robust, environmentally friendly ship with advanced operating features."

The new Common Structural Rules, released in 2006 after development by the major classification societies in consultation with the industry's leading ship owners, builders and design houses, have triggered a wave of new designs from the world's shipyards.

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MARITIME INDUSTRY WEB LINKS

ALSTONS SHIPPING LIMITED - www.alstonsshipping.com/ ANANDA BUILDERS LTD. - www.anandagroup.biz CANTREX ALUMINIUM - www.cantrexaluminium.com/ CATERPILLAR LOCAL DEALERSHIP - www.tracmac.com/ COMMUNITY OF EUROPEAN SHIPYARDS’ ASSOCIATIONS: www.cesa-shipbuilding.org/

CHINA OILFIELD SERVICES LIMITED - www.cnoocs.com/ ENGINE TECH CO. LIMITED - www.man-mec.com/ EURONAV N.V. - www.euronav.com FLUOR DANIEL - www.fluor.com/ GAC - ALSTONS - www.gacworld.com/ GOVERNMENT OF CANADA – www.canada.gc.ca/ HAMRIYAH MARITIME CITY - www.hamriyahmaritimecity.com/ HORNBLOWER MARINE SERVICES - www.hornblowermarine.com HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES (HHI) - www.english.hhi.co.kr/ INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION - www.imo.org/ J. RAY MC DERMOTT - www.jraymcdermott.com/ MINISTRY OF TRADE & INDUSTRY - www.tradeind.gov.tt/ PRESSURE CONCRETE PLUS - www.pressureconcreteplus.com/ STENA BULK - www.stenabulk.com/ THE PHI GROUP - www.phigroup.net YANTAI RAFFLES SHIPYARD - www.yantai-raffles.com/

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Mr. Wilfred de Gannes, Deputy Leader, T&T Shipbuilding and Repair Cluster, Post Office Box 2853, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago. Tel: (868) 753 - 6057 Fax: (868) 662 - 6326 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.tts-r.com

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Christopher Columbus returns to Port of Spain.

The 128 year old, 17 foot structure and fountain dedicated to Christopher Columbus (born 1471) was recently restored to its pristine condition, as part of the capital of Trinidad ongoing beautification programme.

It was presented as a gift to the then Borough in 1880 by Frenchman Hypolite Borde. His grandson, Desmond Forde was there to represent the family and lauded the Port of Spain Mayor Murchison Brown and his Engineer’s efforts to restore the statue at a ceremony which took place at Tamarind Square, where the statue has made its home since 1880.

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