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Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair Company has been busy since last fall. In October they took on the job of inserting a 118-foot parallel mid-body to an existing vessel, the MPF (e) vessel - LCPL Roy M. Wheat. The end result created more cargo handling capability for the new 864-foot vessel, and the approximate turnaround time for the insertion project was only 58 days.

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