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CDS For 80 Barges

Costing $9.9 Million

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Twenty of the rake-type barges, measuring 195 feet long, with a 35- foot beam, a draft of 9 feet, and a deadweight of 1,500 short tons, will be built by Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh,

Pa.

Jeffboat Inc., Jeffersonville, Ind., will build the remaining 30 rake-type barges, which will have the same measurements as those built by Dra- vo. Jeffboat will also build the thirty 200-foot-long box-style barges, which will have a beam of 35 feet, a draft of 9 feet,'and a deadweight of 1,635 short tons.

The barges are to be operated on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.

McDermott To Build 4 Oceangoing Tugs

For Henjen Corp.

J. Ray McDermott Co., Morgan

City, La., plans to build four ocean- going tugs for Henjen Corp., San

Francisco, Calif., a subsidiary of

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