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PBI Wins $6.4 M Corps

Of Engineers Crane Deal

Peterson Builders Inc. (PBI), Sturgeon Bay,

Wis., won a $6.4 million contract from the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers to design, construct, test and deliver a floating crane.

The rotating crane is tub-mounted on a 150-ft. (45.7-m) steel ship-shaped hull barge with three spuds used for positioning and anchoring during crane operations. The barge arrangement in- cludes a raised forecastle, machinery space, and a deck working area protected by timbers. Con- struction of the floating crane will begin in the summer of 1995 with delivery in 1996.

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Raytheon, Advanced

Marine Technology

In ECDIS Pact

Advanced Marine Technology, Seattle, a manu- facturer of computer-based marine electronics, signed an agreement with Raytheon Marine

Company for exclusive distribution rights to

Advanced Marine Technology's Electronic Chart

Display Information System (ECDIS) products.

Raytheon will be responsible for worldwide mar- keting, sales and service associated with the

ECDIS systems.

ECDIS summarizes real-time information from critical on-board sensors into graphical displays for easy interpretation. ECDIS systems are designed to improve safety and prevent disasters with anti-grounding and collision avoidance fea- tures.

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KCS Sells Tribon System

To Various Yards

KockumsComputer Systems (KCS) AB of

Malmo, Sweden, recently sold its Tribon ship- building system to Daedong Shipbuilding Co. of

South Korea; Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Ja- pan; and to Lindenau GmbH of Kiel, Germany.

Daedong purchased the Initial Design, Work

Preparation, Hull and the complete outfitting applications of the system for its new yard in

Jinhae, near Pusan, South Korea.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries purchased the complete hull and outfitting applications of the system for its Sakaide Works. Tribon was in- stalled this summer and is now in use on an IBM hardware platform.

Lindenau, which has reportedly been success- ful recently in obtaining contracts for modern tanker newbuilds, also purchased the system to improve competitiveness and increase quality.

The delivery of the system is connected with modernizing several plate cutting machines to achieve fully computer controlled operation. With these measures Lindenau Shipyard hopes to benefit in the areas of prefabrication and assem- bly.

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Corps Of Engineers Holds Dredging

Workshops

The Portland district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held two public workshops to ex- plain the feasibility phase of the Columbia River

Channel Deepening Study, the first in Portland,

Ore., and the second in Longview, Wash. A shared effort between the Corps and the Port of

Portland staff, the workshops were designed to allow the public to learn about environmental issues surrounding the five-year study.

The study will evaluate the need for modifying the existing project authorization. Alternatives will include determining the viability of deepen- ing the 40-ft. (12.2-m) Columbia River naviga- tion channel up to three feet. Costs of the $6.21 million study will be shared equally between the

Corps and the Port of Portland. Between five and six million cubic yards (cy) of material are removed from the channel annually for mainte- nance. About 20 million cy more would need to be removed during a three-year period to reach the 43-ft. channel depth.

YARD PROFILE

NASSCO Invests In Technology To

Capture Commercial Business

Ongoing reduction in new U.S. Navy ordering has affected National Steel & Shipbuilding (NASSCO) as much as any other company. How- ever the largest shipbuilder on the U.S. west coast is making the necessary moves to ensure it remains a viable shipbuilder and repairer for the naval and commercial markets.

Employing 3,700 at its San Diego facility,

NASSCO offers new construction, conversion, repairs and design capabilities. The yard has been involved primarily in U.S. Navy work most recently, but to become a bigger player on the international shipbuilding and repair market, it has refocused efforts geared to attract commer- cial ship owners and operators.

Government work, however, remains a staple, and the yard is now working on three firm orders (and looking to receive three options) for large sealift vessels. NASSCO is also converting three container vessels to RoRos.

As a part of this effort, NASSCO received $22.7 million in Title XI loan guarantees in the late summer, funds to be used for shipyard modernization. "This program marks the first major step in the overall modernization of the shipyard," said Richard H. Vortmann,

NASSCO's president.

Facility upgrades, to be completed by the third quarter of 1996, will include a major new on- block outfitting shop, a large-capacity steel plate roll, a computer-controlled plasma steel plate burning machine, a 175-ton heavy lift gantry crane, and more. All projects are geared to adding new technology and increasing efficiency, enabling NASSCO to compete for commercial contracts.

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