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Wichmann Receives An

Order For 20 Diesels

For Halter-Built Vessels

Wichmann Diesel, Inc. of Ken- ner, La., has secured an order from Command Marine, Inc. of

Lafayette, La., through its affil- iates, for 20 of their 1,350-hp

Model 4AXA marine propulsion systems, including controllable- pitch propeller and all ancillary equipment. This engine series of- fers very low specific fuel con- sumption due to low engine oper- ating speeds, and reduced main- tenance as a result of modular construction and elimination of problem-causing cylinder valving and valve operating components.

These propulsion packages will be installed in 10 vessels: four 180-foot tug supply vessels, two stern trawlers, and four special purpose vessels, all of which will be built by Halter Marine, Inc. at their New Orleans, La., facil- ities. Delivery is scheduled for 1980-81. 1979 MarAd Survey On

Shipbuilding And Repair

Facilities Available

The Maritime Administration recently published its 1979 Report on Survey of U.S. Shipbuilding and Repair Facilities. The 123- page report notes that "Despite the continuing worldwide ship- ping depression, the climate of uncertainty, and the global over- capacity in shipbuilding, the U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair in- dustry in FY 1979 invested some $208 million in facilities modern- ization and expansion, and as of

July 1, 1979, planned to spend an additional $221 million to improve facilities during the year ending

June 30, 1980."

Since enactment of the Mer- chant Marine Act of 1970, ap- proximately $1.7 billion has been spent on facilities modernization and improvements, the report states.

A limited number of copies of the publication are available and may be obtained by writing the

Office of Public Affairs, Room 3895, Maritime Administration,

Washington, D.C. 20230.

Parker Towing Barge

And Towboat Project

To Cost $14 Million

Parker Towing Co., Inc., P.O.

Box 72, 1001 o 24th Avenue, Tus- caloosa, Ala. 35402, has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing 35 barges and four tow- boats. The vessels will be used on the inland and coastal waterways of the United States.

The project includes 33 hopper barges, each with a capacity of 273 short tons. Jeffboat, Inc. of

Jeffersonville, Ind., will build 10 of the hopper barges for delivery

March 31, 1980. A shipbuilder has not been designated for the other 23 hopper barges.

Jeffboat, Inc. will also construct two 26,000-barrel tank barges for the applicant.

The project also involves the construction of two new towboats and the reconditioning of two others. One of the new vessels is being built at Mainstream Ship- yards & Supply, Inc., Greenville,

Miss., and is scheduled for deliv- ery on June 30, 1980. Another towboat is to be built at an un- designated shipyard.

Mainstream Shipyards & Sup- ply will also recondition a tow- boat for Parker Towing. The work was expected to be completed last month. In addition, Harrison

Bros. Drydock & Repair Yard,

Inc., Mobile, Ala., reconditioned a towboat for the applicant. It was redelivered October 12, 1979.

The estimated actual cost of the entire project is $14,178,000.

If approved, the Title XI guar- antee would cover $11,934,000 of that amount.

Tampa Tug Corporation

Formed By T.J. Stahl

The Tampa Tug Corporation's "Chal- lenger."

Thomas J. Stahl has announced the formation of the Tampa Tug

Corporation. The new company has established offices at 102

North 13th Street, Tampa, Fla., with a mailing address of P.O.

Box 5405, Tampa, Fla. 33675.

Tampa Tug intends to provide barge towing on a contract basis throughout the Gulf, Caribbean,

Central and South America, or wherever towing services are re- quired. Mr. Stahl announced that the tug Challenger has been placed in service and has made several trips to Central America.

The Challenger is a twin screw, 4,200-hp, 125-foot tugboat with worldwide ocean towing capabil- ity.

Before starting the Tampa Tug

Corporation, Mr. Stahl was em- ployed as the operations manager of the St. Phillip Towing & Trans- port Company in Tampa for five years. From 1958 through 1974,

Mr. Stahl served as the Southern operations manager in New Or- leans, La., of the A.L. Mechling

Barge Line, Inc., and the Union

Mechling Corporation. Mr. Stahl is on the board of directors of the

American Waterways Operators.

The company phone number in

Tampa is (813) 223-9751.

Brown & Root Promotes

Knight And Nelson To VP

Posts In Marine Group

Brown & Root, Inc., Houston,

Texas, has announced a series of executive changes, including the promotion of two officers in the company's Marine Group.

Promoted to Group vice presi- dents were T.E. Knight. Engi- neering & Project General Man- agement, Marine Group, and H.A.

Nelson, Construction, Western

Hemisphere, Marine Group.

Mr. Knight's 16-year back- ground includes design, engineer- ing, and engineering management, planning, design, and construction of petroleum production facilities; design and construction of off- shore drilling and production platforms, marine terminals and submarine pipelines.

Mr. Nelson has nearly 40 years of experience in engineering and construction from laborer to su- pervision and management, and for the past several years has been in charge of management of Brown & Root's West Coast-

Alaska, Oilfield, and Latin Amer- ica Division of the Marine Serv- ices Group.

Halter Marine Offers

Free 54-Page Full-Color

Capabilities Brochure

Halter Marine, Inc. is offering, at no cost, a 54-page brochure, every page profusely illustrated with dramatic full-color photo- graphs, describing the total inside and outside shipbuilding capabil- ities offered by this leading ship- building organization.

Halter builds more than 30 types of vessels at the company's 10 shipyard locations in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala- bama, and Florida. In less than 25 years of operation, the com- pany has constructed more than 1,000 vessels. Examples of all types currently produced by Hal- tor are pictured in the brochure, including supply boats, tug/sup- ply boats, crewboats, tugs, sur- face effect ships, research vessels, small tankers, patrol boats, fish- ing vessels, CATUGS, utility boats, and sports fishermen. The book aLo details the full range of services offered by Halter from vessel design, engineering, and construction, to service, repairs, and training.

For a copy, write to A.J. Rizzo,

Halter Marine, Inc., P.O. Box 29266, New Orleans, La. 70189. • Jt % s >

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A new line of Inwater cleaning semi-automatic equipment for ship hulls "BRUSH KART"

BRUSH KART is a hydraullcally powered brushing unit, fitted with 3 rotary sucking brushes. Cleaning proceeds by 4 ft 11.20 ml wide stripts, at an oper- ating speed of 33-44 yds (30-40 m) both on vertical walls and flat bottoms. VLCCs can be cleaned within 5 to 6 hours during unloading, by only 1 diver who steers the Kart, effortless and with sufficient visibility The driving of the Kart requires only a few hours training of the operator BRUSH KART is extremely robust and requires very limited maintenance It ensures a high quality cleaning which "spares the protective coatings BRUSH

KART is currently in use with the U S Navy and the NATO Navy.

Every "PHOSMARINE" equipment is manufactured in FRANCE only.

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