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Ocean Energy Requests

Title XI To Construct

Tug/Supply Vessel

Ocean Energy Services, Inc., 575 San Jacinto Building, Hous- ton, Texas, has applied to the

U.S. Department of Commerce,

Maritime Administration, for a

Title XI guarantee to aid in fi- nancing the construction of an oceangoing tug/supply vessel.

Burton Shipyards, Port Arthur,

Texas, is the proposed shipbuilder.

The applicant plans to charter the vessel to Brazosport Marine

Services, Inc., which will time charter the vessel to the U.S.

Navy to support its research, and search and rescue missions off the

West Coast.

The vessel will be 190 feet in length, 40 feet in breadth and 16 feet in depth. It will be rated at 4,800 horsepower.

The estimated actual cost of the vessel is approximately $2.9 million. If approved, the Title XI guarantee would cover 87% per- cent of that amount.

Approve Procedures

Necessary To Implement

Change In CDS Rate

The Maritime Subsidy Board has approved procedures for im- plementing the series construction clause of the Maritime Appropria- tions Authorization Act for Fiscal

Year 1979, which provides for a 5-percent reduction in the con- struction-differential subsidy (CDS) rate for vessels not con- structed as part of an existing or future vessel series.

The Maritime Administration's

Office of Ship Construction will evaluate each CDS application and determine whether or not the ves- sel is part of a series. That office will forward the determination to

MarAd's Office of Shipbuilding

Costs for incorporation in that office's recommendations to the

Board concerning reasonable do- mestic price and related matters.

The Board also determined that two recent CDS awards—for ves- sels to be built for Levingston

Falcon I Shipping Company and three subsidiaries of Occidental

Petroleum Corporation — are not covered by this provision. The funds to construct those ships will be allocated from fiscal year 1978 appropriations carry-over.

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NORTHWEST MARINE

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U.S. Offices:

P.O. Box3109

Portland, Oregon 97208

Telephone: 503-228-8222

TWX: 910-464-6107

Telegram: NorMarine

European

Representatives:

ATPAC Maritime

Agencies, Inc., Athens,

Piraeus, Greece

A. Silchenstedt, Bergen,

Norway

A/S Krogstads, Oslo,

Norway

Paul Gregersen,

Copenhagen, Denmark

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