Many take off from the airfield regularly, others are at the base for maintenance work.

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Royal Dutch Shell, an oil company, will use Darwin as a maintenance base for a floating processing plant for LNG from the Prelude field off Western Australia.

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According to sources cited by Interfax, the ships were carrying marines on a training mission, as well as food and fuel for the maintenance and repair base.

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It is not possible to meet development and integration needs without building a strong engineering base for the design, construction and maintenance of infrastructure facilities.

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The net lease base rent will be higher, because maintenance, etc.

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The report said this reflects higher prices for labor, electricity and maintenance, as well as reduced by-product credits resulting from lower base-metals prices.

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Oversee and coordinate the programme and staff of the Special Projects Unit to ensure proper management of all ongoing programmes and projects, the development of a portfolio of new initiatives, maintenance of relations with existing donors, and expansion of the donor support base.

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