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Icebreaker Barge With

Twin Notches In Stern

Leads Arctic Sealift

The 10th annual Arctic Marine

Freighters sealift to Prudhoe Bay,

Alaska, has departed from Seat- tle, Wash., according to an an- nouncement by Roy D. Jurgensen,

Seattle, executive vice president of Crowley Maritime Corpora- tion's Offshore Group.

The 1977 sealift involves eight barges and five tugs on the line haul, as well as lighter barges for the lighterage operation at

Prudhoe Bay, and a fleet of trucks and crawlers for inland hauling to final destinations on the North Slope. The icebreaker barge Arctic Challenger, which made its debut last year by lead- ing the 1976 fleet through the ice to Prudhoe Bay, is again in the lead, carrying a full deck load of cargo.

The 300-foot by 105-foot Arc- tic Challenger, designed and con- structed especially for use in

Arctic ice conditions, is equipped with twin notches in the stern for pushing by two 9,000-hp tugs as it cuts a channel through ice for the 100-foot-wide sealift barges.

This year's fleet will haul 44,000 tons of cargo to the North Slope oil fields. The cargo includes mod- ular facilities for oil processing plants and general cargo for drill- ing operations.

Loading for the sealift took

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DENMARK: A/S Maritime Agency, Bredgade 36, Copenhagen; Phone (01) 151504 - Telex 15845 - Cable Marag. ENGLAND: Keller Shipping Co. Ltd., Cereal

House, 58 Mark Lane, London EC3R-7LB; Phone 01 -481 8833 (7 lines) - Telex 887100 - Cable Rellek FINLAND & SWEDEN: Nordstrom & Thulin A/B, P.O. Box 1215, S-111 -82 Stockholm; Phone 08/225380 - Telex 13250 - Cable Nordstromsale FRANCE: Phs. Van Ommeren S.A., 11 Rue Tronchet, Paris Vllle-75008;

Phone: 265-09-19, 265-33-20 - Telex 28686 - Cable Vanommeren. GERMANY: Phs Van Ommeren (Hamburg) GmbH, Postfach 305526, D-2000 Hamburg 36;

Phone (040) 35931 - Telex 02 11864/02 161894 - Cable Vanommeren GREECE: Th. Giavridis Bros S.A., 45-49 Bounoulinas Str. Piraeus; Phone 4117450. 4117476-Telex 2091 (5 lines), 3683 (2 lines) - Cable Theogibros. HOLLAND: Dammers & v.d Heide & Co (Agenturen) B.V., Postbus 1337, Rotterdam; Phone 010/146011 - Telex 21127 - Cable Eneragent. HONG KONG: R.I.L. Hong Kong Ltd., P.O. Box 45, Hong Kong; Phone H 241181 - Telex 73608 - Cable Japackline.

INDIA: Nautilus International (India), 1 -B, Fazalbhoy House, New Marine Lines, Bombay 400 020; Phone 255246 - Cable Nautilus ITALY: Cambiaso-Risso &

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Heast. Henning Astrup A/S, P.O Box 1240,5001 Bergen; Phone: 215.233,230.238-Telex42316-Cable Haven PORTUGAL: Soc Cont. de Representatives Lda.,

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All of the 1977 armada will rendezvous near Point Barrow, northernmost tip of Alaska. Point

Barrow, 150 miles west of Prud- hoe Bay, is surrounded by ice except for a period of about six weeks each year. During this time, sealift crews must tow their barges to Prudhoe Bay, discharge the cargo via a complex lighter- age system, and sail back past

Point Barrow before ice moves in again for the long winter.

Once past the challenge of the

Arctic ice pack, Arctic Marine

Freighters crews will face com- plications brought about by shal- low water surrounding the entire

Prudhoe Bay area. This requires a portion of the flotilla to anchor several miles offshore and lighter cargo to smaller barges for the trip to the dock. The huge mod- ules, some weighing up to 1,300 tons and towering to nine stor- ies, are loaded and discharged by crawler transporters that fit un- der the modules, hydraulically lift them and "walk" them on and off the barges.

At the end of the 1977 sealift,

Arctic Marine Freighters will have delivered nearly three-fourths of a million tons of cargo to Prud- hoe Bay since the sealift began 10 years ago.

Roger M. Sykes Joins

Arthur Levy Boat Service

Roger M. Sykes

Arthur Levy Boat Service, Inc., has appointed Roger M. Sykes sales manager for Western Hem- isphere operations, and has estab- lished a sales office in Houston,

Texas.

Mr. Sykes will handle Arthur

Levy sales and contracts for

North, Central and South Amer- ica, and also will provide liaison for Houston-based projects in the

Eastern Hemisphere.

Mr. Sykes was formerly sales manager, North and South Amer- ica, for Zapata Marine Service, and prior to that had been with

Cameron Iron Works for six years.

The new Levy office in Houston is at 2400 Fountain View, Suite 100, Houston, Texas 77057. Ar- thur Levy Boat Service, a Petro- lane Company, provides diversified offshore marine support services with a modern fleet of 70 vessels, including tug/supply, anchor han- dling/supply, supply, utility and crewboats.