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3 floating drydocks • to 18,000 tons

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Bids To Be Invited

On Construction Of

Four S.F. Bay Ferries

Bids in connection with the con- struction of four ferries for use on

San Francisco Bay may be received sometime this fall by San Francisco's

Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and

Transportation District. The agency is currently seeking Federal funds to help pay the estimated $8.4-million cost for the 750-passenger vessels.

Philip F. Spaulding, Division of

Nickum and Spaulding Associates,

Seattle, Wash., received a contract to design a new San Francisco ferry fleet earlier this year.

Sabine Towing Applies

For Mortgage Insurance

The Maritime Administration has disclosed that the Sabine Towing &

Transportation Co., Port Arthur,

Texas, has applied for mortgage in- surance on a 7,000 horsepower tug to be used to tow oil-carrying barges from producing areas in the Gulf to

Atlantic Coast ports.

The tug is to be built, at a cost of some $1.7 million, by Main Iron

Works, Inc., Houma, La.

Jan-Erik Dyvi Orders

Giant Car Carriers

Norwegian shipowner Jan-Erik

Dyvi of Oslo has placed orders in the Netherlands for two car carriers which will be the biggest of their kind in the world, with a capacity of 3,800 medium-size cars each.

The ships are scheduled for deliv- ery in 1973, when Jan-Erik Dyvi will have a fleet of five carriers capable of transporting 230,000 cars a year between Europe and the U.S. East

Coast.

Dravo Building Ten

Covered Hopper Barges

For Central Soya Co.

Ten covered hopper barges, each capable of carrying more than 1,500 tons of material at a nine-foot draft, are being built by Dravo Corporation,

Pittsburgh, Pa., for Central Soya

Company, whose corporate headquar- ters are in Fort Wayne, Ind.

The 200-foot by 35-foot by 12-foot semi-integrated vessels will be equip- ped with weathertight lift-off covers for added cargo protection. They will be used to transport grain in the in- land waterways.

Delivery of the new barges will begin next spring at the rate of two per week. They are being built at

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