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North American Ports

To Spend $1.4 Billion

To Improve Facilities

The Maritime Administration has released a survey which shows that

North American ports will spend a total of $1.4 billion for new and im- proved facilities through 1977.

The report, North American Port

Development Expenditure Survey, points out that since 1946, capital ex- penditures exceeding $3.8 billion have been made by ports located in the

United States, Canada and Puerto

Rico.

The report by the Maritime Ad- ministration was based on answers by 127 ports to a questionnaire sent to a total of 152. Mar Ad said in the report, it assumes those who did not answer made no capital expenditures since 1965, the year ports were last surveyed by the American Associa- tion of Port Authorities.

Copies of the survey are being sent to port officials as an aid to future planning.

According to the report, ports in the continental U.S. will spend $1,- 484,450,440 between 1973 and 1977.

Projected expenditures by Alaska,

Hawaii and Puerto Rico are $35,- 504,000. During this five-year period,

Canada plans improvements totaling $220,504,000.

Since the data was gathered by port jurisdictions on the local levels, not all private investments in port development is included. "Therefore, the dollar totals com- piled in this survey include both pub- lic and private, but the amount of private monies is considerably less than actual, while the public port fig- ures should be considered quite de- finitive for the latest survey period," the report said.

Gladders/Ohio River

Order St. Louis Ship's 'FAST' Sewage System

St. Louis Ship has announced that its FAST No Discharge Sewage Sys- tem has been ordered by Gladders

Towing Company, and by The Ohio

River Company for installation aboard vessels currently under construction.

FAST enables operators to comply with regulations which prohibit the discharge of sewage from vessels.

The system removes the impurities from sewage, and reuses the purified water for flushing the toilets. The water is clear and odorless. The im- purities are retained in the unit in the form of sludge, and the system is pumped out at three-month intervals.

The system is simple and reliable.

There are no process adjustments, no moving parts inside the tank to clog or jam, and no special chemicals or fuel are required. Also, FAST oper- ates with conventional toilet fixtures and piping systems.

The system has been in regular ser- vice aboard river towboats for several years. The first marine unit was in- stalled aboard Federal Barge Lines'

M/V Missouri in 1970.

Subsequent units have been in- stalled aboard Federal's M/V Tom

Talbert and M/V Herman Pott,

Sioux City and New Orleans Barge

Lines' M/V Robert Crown, and

American River Transportation Com- pany's M/V Sally Archer. At pre- sent, a total of 29 FAST units are installed or on order.

FAST is the result of years of re- search and development, a joint effort of two industry leaders. St. Louis

Ship Division of Pott industries Inc. is one of America's largest inland shipbuilding and repair firms, and

Ecodyne Corporation, Smith & Love- less Division, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of factory- built waste water treatment plants and lift stations. Both parties recog- nized the need for practical means of meeting the no discharge require- ments then imposed on vessels by cer- tain states, and subsequently by the

U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency.

Smith & Loveless furnished their sanitary engineering expertise and the FAST process (FAST is a trade- mark of Ecodyne Corporation). St.

Louis Ship provided the engineering and experience needed to meet the special requirements of the marine industry.

FAST can handle wide variations in loading, including short-term overloads and intermittent disuse.

As a result, it will effectively treat the sewage from small as well as large crews, and it is unusual in its ability to do so. Standard units are available for crews of from 5 to 50 persons. 0 BAY-HOUSTON TOWING CO.

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