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Inland Waterways/

Great Lakes Yards

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AWO Perspective

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Avondale Awarded

Navy Contract

For $321 Million

Ogden Corporation announced recently that its subsidiary, Avon- dale Shipyards, Inc., has been awarded a contract to build a fleet oiler (TAO) for the US Navy with

Navy options for two additional

TAOs increasing the contract to $321 million. The new work will fol- low four similar TAOs being con- structed at Avondale.

Avondale's backlog potential now exceeds $1.5 billion, including more than $1 billion represented by firm commitments. The new contract, like most of the backlog, provides for escalation in the cost of labor and materials.

Automar III Awarded $17.1-Million Contract

Automar III Corporation, Wash- ington, D.C., was recently awarded a $17,102,005 firm-fixed-price con- tract for the time charter of the M/V

Ferncarrier, a Norwegian-flag heavy-lift, float on/float off (FO/

FO) ship. The Ferncarrier will be changed to a U.S.-flag vessel prior to delivery to the Military Sealift

Command.

The ship will be assigned to the

Near Term Prepositioning Force,

Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean.

The contract period is 18 months beginning between January 27 and

February 5, 1986. The delivery port is Charleston, S.C. Approximately 300 offers were solicited and eight bids were received. Contract funds would not have expired at the end of the current fiscal year. The Military

Sealift Command, located in Wash- ington, D.C., is the contracting ac- tivity (N00033-85-C-1007).

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