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Shell, COSCO Ink Appomattox Platform Transportation Deal

Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.

August 18, 2015

 

COSCO Shipping    Company    Limited    (COSCOL)    signed    a contract with  Shell    Offshore    Inc.    on    6    July    2015,    for the transportation    of the Appomattox    semi-submersible offshore platform    hull    from    South    Korea    to Ingleside,    Texas. This    contract    was    awarded    as    part    of    an Enterprise frame agreement    between Shell and COSCOL.   

Shell’s    41,165    metric    ton    hull    will    be    transported on COSCOL’s    new-building    98,000    deadweight    ton    vessel “Guang    Hua    Kou”.        The    “Guang    Hua Kou”    is    currently under    construction    at    the    COMEC    shipyard    in Guangzhou,    China    and    expected    to    be  delivered    in to service    late 2016.

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