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Halifax Yard Awards $1.3-Million Contract

For Modernization

TTS (International) A/S of

Bergen, Norway, has received a contract from Halifax Industries

Limited of Halifax, Canada, through its U.S. subsidiary, TTS,

Inc. of Newport News, Va.

The $1.3 million contract in- volves a major modernization that will result in Halifax Industries being one of the most modern shipyards of its size in North

America.

This modernization will include a complete shotblast and paint line for steel plates and structural shapes. An automated material- handling system will convey the surface-treated material into Hal- ifax's fabricator shop where the material can be stored or fed to the TTS Panel Production Line.

The panel line will be used to pro- duce stiffened panels and sections.

The panel line features a single- side welding process that welds a series of plates into a plate blanket. Also featured will be sev- eral TTS patented mobile gantry systems for the mounting and welding of stiffeners and webs to the plate blankets.

This is the third major panel line contract received by TTS, Inc. in the past 11 months from North

American concerns, and is the 16th shipyard production system installation contracted from TTS internationally in the past three years.

MarAd Approves Title XI

For Tug/Supply Vessel

To Cost $2.7 Million

The application by Offshore

Southern Ships, Inc. of Belle

Chasse, La. for a Title XI loan guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a tugAsupply ves- sel has been approved in principle by the Maritime Administration.

The 180-foot, 2,520-bhp vessel, scheduled to be delivered in De- cember this year, will be operated in U.S. and foreign waters. The estimated cost of the vessel is $2,720,000; the Title XI guaran- tee will cover 87 \A percent of that amount.

J.J. Henry Elected

To Norshipco Board

James J. Henry, chairman of the board of the J.J. Henry Co.,

Inc., New York, N.Y., has been elected to the Norshipco board of directors. The announcement was made recently by John L. Roper 2nd, Norshipco board chairman.

James J. Henry

A graduate of the Webb Insti- tute of Naval Architecture, Mr.

Henry formed his own company in 1947 to provide engineering and design services to ship con- struction companies throughout the world.

He is responsible for several innovations in ship design, in- cluding the world's largest self- unloading bulk carrier, the first vessel to carry liquefied natural gas at low temperatures at at- mospheric pressure, and Ameri- can Mail Line's record-breaking trans-Pacific liners. He also de- signed the U.S. Navy's first au- tomated steam plant.

Mr. Henry is on the board of managers of the American Bu- reau of Shipping, and is past president and an honorary mem- ber of The Society of Naval Ar- chitects and Marine Engineers.

He is past chairman and currently vice chairman of the Webb Insti- tute board of trustees, and a for- mer member of the Academic

Advisory Committee of the U.S.

Coast Guard Academy.

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