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Your investment is dying

Think about the money you originally invested in barges — and what it would cost to replace them at today's prices.

Barges aren't cheap and the only way to maximize the return on your initial investment is to maximize their operating life.

Port Allen Marine has the facilities and "operating room" to expertly maintain and extend your barge's serviceable life.

We operate a full service shipyard which includes four dry docks: two 500 ton capacity, one 1800 ton and one 2500 ton capacity on the Port Allen - Morgan City route mile 57 and

Port Allen Marine on the Mississippi, located at mile post 224.6 in Baton Rouge, offers professional "gas-free" barge cleaning services. A complete barge repair service, including topside emergency repairs, is available to handle those unexpected disasters such as "skin" punctures and abrasions — even structural collapse.

We can provide sandblasting of "affected" areas and coating of "exposed" surfaces, repair of wounds, repair or replacement of diseased parts, transplants — even new interior construction when required.

Don't let your investment die, contact Port Allen Marine today — we'll not only save your barge's life, we'll save your investment.

We're the experts

RAMS

Port Allen Marine Service, Inc.

P.O. Box 108, Port Allen,

Louisiana 70767 (504) 387-5991

Twin-Screw Bridge Maintenance Tug & Firefighter I

SIGMA TREATMENT/HELLENIC SHIPYARDS AGREEMENT—

George B. Efthimiou, president of Sigma Treatment Systems, Inc. of

New York, N.Y., has announced the signing of a joint venture agree- ment with the Hellenic Shipyards, Skaramanga, Greece, for the fab- rication of Sigma Disposal Systems and other pollution equipment by

Hellenic Shipyards for the Eastern Mediterranean area. A formal contract was signed at the Posidonia Exhibition held in Piraeus,

Greece. Pictured above, left to right: G.B. Efthimiou, president,

Sigma Treatment Systems, Inc.; M. Triantafyllides, technical man- ager, Hellenic Shipyards, Skaramanga, Greece; C. Caldis, managing director, Hellenic Shipyards; W.F. Roberts, design consultant, Sigma

Treatment Systems, Inc., and E. Konstas, managing director, Tech- nomar, Co., Ltd., representative for Sigma Treatment Systems, Inc., in Greece.

Powered by a pair of GM Detroit Diesel Allison 6-71s, the Tappan Zee II was designed and built by Gladding-Hearn for her many and varied duties associated with the maintenance of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding

Corporation, 1 Riverside Avenue,

Somerset, Mass. 02725, recently announced the delivery of an all- steel 48-foot by 16-foot tug, Tap- pan Zee II, to the New York State

Thruway Authority. There is re- ally nothing spectacular about the boat—it's just a plain, sturdy tug, built to American Bureau of Ship- ping + 1 classification. Preston

R. Gladding, the tug's designer, made her look like a small tug should, with proper shear and jaunty visor.

Power selected was a matched pair of General Motor Detroit

Diesel Allison 6-71s, the old reli- able work horse of the marine in- dustry. A small Onan 110 a-c gen- erator is also set in the engine room for supplying a-c power to hand tools used in bridge main- tenance.

Due to the exposure of munici- pal purchasing and quality assur- ance, the Authority took every precaution by specifying Tappan

Zee II to be built to American

Bureau of Shipping classification.

George G. Sharp, Inc., naval ar- chitects of New York, N.Y., also represented the Authority during construction.

Although the tug may seem conventional, her duties are var- ied and interesting.

The three-mile-long Tappan Zee

Bridge has 16,000 wood cluster piles around each bridge pier for icebreaking purposes, essential protection against the large ice flows coming south down the

Hudson River. The maintenance of these piles is a never-ending maintenance chore serviced by two full dock-building crews and two lighters—the Tappan Zee II handles the lighters and crew transfers.

Because the Hudson River bed cannot support the total bridge load, the main bridge supports are semi-buoyant concrete cais- sons fitted with bilge pumps which must be maintained and in- spected frequently, regardless if ice conditions exist.

Occasionally, a motorist will flick a lit cigarette off the bridge and the pile clusters will catch fire, therefore the tug is equipped with a 500-gpm firefighting moni- tor and pump for this emergency.

Although the Authority high- way service trucks are equipped with firefighting apparatus, the

Tappan Zee II can also spray foam on the roadway above with greater compatibility than the fire trucks, if an oil truck should catch fire.

Sun Shipbuilding

Names Frank Daresta

Sun Ship has appointed Frank

Daresta the director, business development and market research.

In this post, Mr. Daresta holds responsibility for the company's business development program as well as its market research and transportation analysis functions.

He reports to Joseph J. Kleschick, vice president-marketing.

Frank Daresta

Mr. Daresta's appointment rep- resents Sun Ship's continuing efforts to be in a position to handle all aspects of the commer- cial marine, U.S. Navy, offshore, and industrial products markets.

Mr. Daresta's appointment also strengthens the shipyard's ability to provide in-depth support to customers in these areas.

Mr. Daresta came to Sun Ship from Envirotech Corporation in

Lebanon, Pa., where he was di- rector-strategic planning, and held positions previously with Westing- house and Turbo Power & Marine

System of United Technologies

Corporation. 12 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News