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PROPULSION

Bill Foster,

ACBL’s Senior

Director of Engineering

Martin Meissner,

ZF Marine Propulsion

Systems Miramar, LLC “The big question is what size of a large HP Z-drive boat port for the commercial vessel industry in the Gulf of Mexico. would be needed displace the large 9,000-11,000HP lower Twenty years later, the new location, located in Elm-

Mississippi boat, and can it balance the need for large tows wood, LA, is almost triple the size of the current facility.

Northbound and southbound in the open river.” It will also allow the