FMC Yard Lays Keel For Puget Sound Lines Barge

The Marine and Rail Equipment Division of FMC Corporation, Portland, Ore. laid the keel recently for an oceangoing deckhouse barge that is under construction for Puget Sound Freight Lines of Seattle. The 253-foot barge has a 4,400-ton capacity to carry newsprint and other products in the Puget Sound and British Columbia region. Delivery is scheduled for July this year.

FMC is building the barge to ocean service rules of the American Bureau of Shipping; it will also be certified by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Among those a t t e n d i n g the k e e l - l a y i n g were Puget Sound Freight Lines president Howard Lovejoy and vice president Donald Foss; Capt. G. Kirk Greiner Jr. of the U.S. Coast Guard; and senior surveyor Donald Shaver of the American Bureau of Shipping.

Also present was John E. Carroll Jr., FMC Division president.

The Marine and Rail Equipment Division of FMC is a manufacturer of two types of transportation equipment in Portland: marine equipment and railroad freight cars. FMC Corporation, headquartered in Chicago, is a major international producer of machinery and chemicals for industry, agriculture, and government, with 1979 sales of $3.31

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