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The Port of Portland's new floating drydock is eased by tugboats of Willamette Tug and Barge Company into its berth at the Port's Swan Island ship repair facility in

Portland Harbor. The huge structure, as long as three football fields end to end, will be outfitted and made ready for handling ship repair service by the first of the year. feet (975.35 meters) of total length, and are serviced by mo- bile truck cranes.

Northwest Marine Iron Works, one of Portland's primary ship repair and conversion companies, is responsible for outfitting and testing the drydock. This job will be performed under a $2.67-mil- lion contract with Ishikawajima-

Harima Heavy Industries.

The contract includes removing temporary enclosures and acces- sories required during the towing of the drydock from IHI's ship- yard in Japan to Portland. It also includes installation of dewater-

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Divide $300-Million

Sea-Land Ship Order

Sea-Land Service, Inc. has placed tentative orders with Jap- anese and South Korean yards for construction of 12 full-size containerships valued at an esti- mated $300 million. Japanese shipbuilding sources disclosed that the orders have been given to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,

Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuild- ing, both of Japan, and Hyundai

Shipbuilding and Heavy Indus- tries of South Korea.

The 12 containerships will have capacities of 838 forty-foot con- tainers each, and will be powered by fuel-saving Sulzer diesel en- gines. The new D-9 class vessels will have an overall length of 745 feet and will fly the U.S. flag and be manned by U.S. crews when they are placed in operation be- ginning in 1980. ing pumps, major electrical work, utility line connections, access equipment and touch-up painting.

Following outfitting, Northwest

Marine Iron Works is scheduled to overhaul the first vessel to uti- lize the new drydock.

Seven ships have already been booked for Dry Dock 4 during 1979 — just one less than had been projected for its first year of operations. First ship to go on the blocks will be the 894-foot- long S/S Overseas Chicago. All seven ships scheduled for Dry

Dock 4 are involved in the move- ment of Alaskan crude oil.

This artist's rendering shows the completed expansion project at the Port of

Portland's Swan Island Ship Repair Yard. At the foreground is the new Dry Dock 4, the largest floating drydock on the West Coast and third largest in the world.

Adjoining the dock is 3,000 feet of pier and wharf space for ship repair, backed up by expanded utility systems, an enlarged ballast water treatment plant and six new cranes ranging in capacity from 30 tons to 150 tons. The expanded yard is expected to be operational in January 1979, and fully complete in May.

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