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Remember when you were lucky to have 25 transmitting channels?

FORGET IT.

The EN 400 SSB radiophone has 100 pre-programmed, computer-controlled channels.

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MARINE

SURVEYORS & CONSULTANTS

WORLDWIDE SERVICE

HUU CAIGO /NC

HULL AND CARGO SURVEYORS, INC. 10 PLATT STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 1 0038 212-732-0650 CABLE: HULANCARGONEWYORK

OFFICES: BALTIMORE • BOSTON • FORT LAUDERDALE

HOUSTON • JACKSONVILLE • NEW ORLEANS

NORFOLK. ST. LOUIS »SAN FRANCISCO • SAN JUAN. PR.

TAMPA • VANCOUVER, B.C • WILMINGTON. CA.

Avondale To Build $67-Million Dredge

For Army Engineers

Ogden Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Avondale

Shipyards, Inc., was awarded a $67,500,400 fixed-price contract to construct a self-propelled, sea- going, trailing suction hopper dredge for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The dredge is scheduled for delivery early in 1981. With this contract, Avon- dale has a backlog exceeding $800 million.

New Firm To Buy Five

Vessels For Service

Great Lakes To Europe

Great Lakes Atlantic Steam- ship Co., Suite 893, 1028 Con- necticut Avenue, N.W., Washing- ton, D.C. 20036, has filed an application with the Maritime Ad- ministration for an operating- differential subsidy contract for a proposed new U.S.-flag service.

Following is the text of a news release issued by MarAd's Great

Lakes Region Office:

The U.S. Department of Com- merce, Maritime Administration, has received an application for op- erating-differential subsidy (ODS) from Great Lakes-Atlantic

Steamship Co. (GLAS) for a new

U.S.-flag service proposed for

Trade Area I Great Lakes-UK/

Continent.

Great Lakes Atlantic Steamship

Co., incorporated in Michigan,

July 20, 1978, intends to operate five vessels between Great Lakes ports of Chicago, Detroit, and

Montreal and Grangemouth, UK,

Rotterdam and Bremerhaven. The liner service is scheduled to offer weekly service with minimum of 48 sailings beginning April 1979.

The applicant intends to pur- chase five C-4 type vessels either fully or partially containerized.

The GLAS service expects to com- pete successfully for a substantial share of the containerized cargo now moving on the Canadian land bridge. Alternate service during the winter months will be offered from Albany, N.Y.

Officers of the company are

John P. Fitzpatrick, chairman of the board, director and president;

Joseph D. Donahue, vice presi- dent; James T. Reilly, secretary and treasurer, and Richard N.

Sharood, trustee.

PACMAR

Full Followup Proportional

Pacific Marine Products, Inc.

P.O. Box 11

Kenmore,WA 98028 (206)789-0660

Salomon Brothers

Market Makers and Investment Bankers.

Members of Major Securities Exchanges.

New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago,

Cleveland, Dallas, Hong Kong, London,

Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco.

We actively trade

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