Tug contracts awarded

Trinity Yachts subsidiary Trinity Offshore, both of Gulfport, Miss., has been awarded contracts worth more than $27 million to build two RAstar 3100 terminal support/escort tugs for Colle Maritime Co., of Pascagoula, Miss. Colle Maritime, a joint venture between Signet Maritime Corp. and Colle Towing Co., is having the tugs built to fulfill a 20-year contract to provide marine support services to Angola LNG Supply Services in the Port of Pascagoula. The tugs will be built over 17 months in Trinity's Gulfport shipyard and are expected to be delivered in September of 2011. (Sources: Offshore Shipping, MarineLog, 04/27/10, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 04/28/10)