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Army's RF-ITV II contract goes to Lockheed

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Contract Amount: 
126,000,000 USD
Announcement Date: 
12/15/2011

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin will help the U.S. Army in shipping of equipment and supplies to combatant commands through a five-year RF-ITV II contract.

Under the $126 million award from the U.S. Army's Product Manager, Joint-Automatic Identification Technology organization, Lockheed will provide operations and maintenance for the Radio Frequency In-Transit Visibility system.

RF-ITV sites, located around the world, provide last-known locations and in-the-container listing for military shipments.

DSME Wins $13 million Order from Oman Government

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13,000,000 USD
Announcement Date: 
09/01/2009

DSEC, a subsidiary company of DSME, successfully won a $13mm machinery supply contract for a repair shipyard from the Oman government through competitive tender.

DSME wins Sonangol SUEZMAX order

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350,000,000 USD
Announcement Date: 
02/24/2010
Termination Date: 
12/31/2012

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. has won orders to build five 160,000 dwt SUEZMAX tankers at a cost of about Won400bn ($348.6m) for Angola's national oil company, Sonangol.

The shipbuilding contracts between the two companies were signed in Lisbon on Saturday, 20 February.

The 274 m long, tankers will have a beam of 48 m and a service speed of 15.4 knots. They will be delivered by the shipbuilder between mid-2011 and early 2013.

DSME bags 10 boxships

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1,200,000,000,000 KRW
Announcement Date: 
07/21/2010
Termination Date: 
11/30/2013

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has won an order worth almost $1bn for ten containership newbuildings.

The South Korean yard has remained tight-lipped, however, on the identity of the owner behind the mommoth order for 8,400-TEU vessels.

A well-placed shipbroking source has, however, told TradeWinds that the $975m order is from Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines (NOL).

There are understood to be no optional contracts with the order. Delivery is set to be split between 2012 and 2013.

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