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extreme northwest corner of

Washington State on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. "This (barge) goes into service as the largest and finest of our fleet," added

Mr. Lovejoy.

The Marine and Rail Equipment

Division of FMC is a manufac- turer of two types of transporta- tion equipment in Portland: ma- rine vessels and railroad freight cars. FMC Corporation, headquar- tered in Chicago, is a major in- ternational producer of machin- ery and chemicals for industry, agriculture, and government, with 1979 sales of $3.31 billion. World- wide, the company has more than 46,000 employees located at 143 manufacturing facilities in 34 states in the United States, and 14 other nations.

Covered deck barge Cape Flattery, built by FMC Corporation, hits the waters of

Willamette River. The barge was built for Puget Sound Freight Lines of Seattle.

FMC Launches Big Deck Barge

For Puget Sound Freight Lines

The Marine and Rail Equipment

Division of FMC Corporation,

Portland, Ore., launched the barge

Cape Flattery at their side launch ways on the Willamette river re- cently. The 253-foot covered deck barge, built for Puget Sound

Freight Lines of Seattle, has a 4,400-ton cargo capacity. "This barge, plus others cur- rently under construction, are an important part of our business during increasingly tough eco- nomic conditions," explained John

E. Carroll Jr., FMC's division president.

FMC built the barge to ocean service rules of the American Bu- reau of Shipping and the U.S.

Coast Guard. Naval architects were L.R. Glosten and Associates,

Inc. of Seattle. "Construction time on the ways was only 2y2 months," added Mr.

Carroll, "and after final outfitting and testing, the Cape Flattery was delivered to her owners in mid-July.

According to Howard Lovejoy, chairman and president of Puget

Sound Freight Lines, all Puget

Sound barges are named after shoreline landmarks, such as Cape

Flattery, which is located on the

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