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Coast Guard Awards $3.5-Million Contract

To Megapulse, Inc.

Megapulse, Inc. of Bedford,

Mass. 01730, has announced the receipt of a $3.5-million contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to produce three high-power radio transmitters. This equipment will be installed in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas and, when operational in mid-1978, will provide highly accurate Loran-C radio aid-to- navigation signals over the Gulf of Mexico area. According to Dr.

Paul R. Johannessen, president of

Megapulse, the presence of these signals will allow an unlimited number of users to precisely de- termine their location at all times of the day or night and under any weather conditions.

Nippon Steel Completes

Floating Tanker Berth

For Alaska Pipeline

Nippon Steel Corp. of Japan has announced the completion of a 2,820-metric-ton floating tanker berth to be installed at the ter- minus for the Trans-Alaska Pipe- line in Valdez, Alaska. The float- ing berth will be used for the No. 1 berth in Port Valdez, which is situated on the Gulf of Alaska and will be the loading point for crude oil piped from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean.

The floating berth measures approximately 403 feet long, 59 feet high and 108 feet wide, and will be able to handle tankers with capacities of up to 120,000 deadweight metric tons. The berth was designed for deepwater location by Fluor Ocean Service,

Inc., and was built by Nippon for the prime contractor, Kiewest, and the owner, Alyeska Pipeline

Service Co.

Nippon said the floating berth is part of an order it received for construction of four such berths, as well as two fixed offshore berths, stating that the latter have already been shipped to

Valdez. The company said that it developed steels and welding technology for the structural parts of the berths that allows them to withstand temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Fahr- enheit.

Thirteen steel buoyancy tanks, each with a diameter of nearly 22 feet, will keep the berth afloat,

Nippon said.

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