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Title XI Approved For

Manatee Integrated

Tug-Barge Units

Deputy Assistant Secretary of

Commerce for Maritime Affairs

Samuel B. Nemirow has approved in principle the application by

Manatee Towing Company, 2050

Coral Way, Miami, Fla., for a

Title XI guarantee to aid in fi- nancing the construction of two integrated tug-barge units. Man- atee is a wholly owned subsidiary of Belcher Towing Company, which will bareboat charter the vessels from the applicant under a 25-year agreement.

Belcher Towing is engaged pri- marily in the carriage of residual fuel oil for its parent company,

Belcher Oil Company. The two new units will be employed in the

U.S. intercoastal and coastwise trades, primarily in the Gulf of

Mexico area.

The two tugs are being built at Diamond Manufacturing Com- pany, Inc., Savannah, Ga., with estimated delivery dates of Sep- tember and October 1979. Each of the tugs will have an overall length of approximately 163 feet 6 inches, and a beam of 53 feet.

They will be powered by low- speed diesel engines rated at 13,110 horsepower.

The barges are under construc- tion at Galveston (Texas) Ship- building Company, and are ex- pected to be delivered in April and September 1979. The first will have an overall length of 587 feet, a fully loaded draft of 35 feet, and a deadweight capacity of 37,700 tons. The second barge will be 643 feet long and have a fully loaded draft of 39 feet and a capacity of 55,000 deadweight tons.

The estimated actual cost of the two units is $48,344,000. The

Title XI guarantee will cover 87y2 percent of that amount.

American Mfg. Co., Inc.

Names Charles Kennedy

Joseph A. Berthelot, national sales manager of the Cordage Di- vision, American Mfg. Co., Inc., has announced the appointment of Charles R. Kennedy to their sales staff.

Charles R. Kennedy

Mr. Kennedy, a graduate of

Duquesne University, was district sales manager of American Chain & Cable from 1957 to 1972, at which time that company was sold to Bridon-American. He served with Bridon until mid-'78.

Mr. Kennedy will operate from

American's Pittsburgh, branch to cover western Pennsylvania, West

Virginia, and western New York.

Avondale Backlog

Now Over $950 Million

Ogden Corporation confirmed that its subsidiary, Avondale

Shipyards, Inc., has entered into contracts with affiliates of Occi- dental Petroleum Corporation to build three 41,250-deadweight-ton integrated tug-barge vessels at an aggregate price of approximately $156 million. (See this issue of

MARITIME REPORTER / Engi- neering News.) The vessels are scheduled for delivery beginning in July 1980, and will be em- ployed to carry superphosphoric acid from the United States to the Soviet Union. The purchaser retains the right to cancel the contract for the third vessel until

December 31, 1978.

With this three-ship order,

Avondale's backlog will exceed $950 million. At the same time a year ago, the backlog was ap- proximately $491 million. VANCOUVER Shipyards y^f A Genstar Company

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Cable: EVERPUR, Westmont. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News