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$9-Million Contract For

Bulk Transfer Facility

Won By Dravo Wellman

Dravo Wellman Company, a

Cleveland-based subsidiary of

Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, has received a contract in excess of $9 million from Seaboard

Coastline Railroad Company for expansion of a rail-to-ocean ves- sel phosphate transfer terminal at Tampa, Fla. Designed to sup- plement existing facilities and give more flexibility to the 3,000- ton-per-hour terminal, the expan- sion will allow two trains to be unloaded instead of one. The proj- ect is scheduled for completion in

December 1981.

The expansion will include en- gineering, supply and installation of a train positioner, car dumper, belt scale, dust collector system, and conveyor system. The exist- ing dock and associated conveyor and shiploader runway will be lengthened by 815 feet. Dravo

Wellman built the original trans- fer terminal for Seaboard Coast- line in 1967-68.

Dravo Wellman's principal ac- tivities include engineering and development of bulk materials handling systems, railcar rotary unloader systems, shiploaders, stackers, and coal ash handlers.

A 10,000-psi jet of water promises to revolutionize routine on-board maintenance... especially rust and scale removal of surfaces to be painted.

Butterworth Systems now offers a modern alternative to the age-old chipping hammer. It's their MARINE

LIQUA-BLASTER"

Diesel powered pump of a

MARINE LIQUA-BLASTER onboard a vessel. ultra-high pressure water- blasting equipment.

Especially developed for shipboard use at sea, the MARINE

LIQUA-BLASTER unit uses a diesel or electric powered pump to generate a 10,000-psi jet of water that is directed by a fail-safe, hand-held gun at the surface being descaled. "White-metal" cleaning.

On a badly rusted surface, "water only" blasting removes scale and debris, leaving a surface that is acceptable for standard maintenance painting. If a moderate amount of sand is automatically added to the water jet. a surface can be "white-metal" cleaned more effectively and more efficiently than it would be with dry-sand blasting in a shipyard.

With the MARINE

LIQUA-BLASTER unit, a rust inhibitor can be added to protect the "white-metal" surface against oxidation before painting.

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Because of the high velocity of the water sand jet. the sand impacts a rusted surface with a much greater force than with regular dry-sand blasting.

The end result is faster cleaning using less sand.

Respirators are not required since no dust is generated. Clean-up is also easier.

Other shipboard cleaning.

In addition to descaling rusted surfaces, a MARINE

LIQUA-BLASTER unit can be used for a number of other on-board cleaning jobs. These include cleaning condenser and boiler tubes, oil spray from machinery, galley grease filters, clogged ports, and the like. For these jobs, as well as rusted surfaces, a variety of guns, lances, round and fan jet nozzles are available.

Proven on-board use.

The experience on a 69.742-DWT tanker, is typical of other vessels that have used MARINE

LIQUA-BLASTER equipment. Here, it was first used to clean a badly rusted 550-square-meter poop deck. The job was done as routine maintenance with interruptions for bad weather and all-hands tasks. In a little over two weeks the poop deck was "white-metal" cleaned and freshly painted.

Doing the same job in a shipyard would have cost $13,750 at $25 per square meter not including the incremental lay up time to accomplish this task.

Heavily rusted deck (below), after water blasting (left), and "white-metal clean after water-sand blasting (right)."

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Barge Contract Raises

Bath Iron's Orderbook

To About $767 Million

A construction contract ex- pected to exceed $20 million has been awarded to Bath Iron Works by Sun Ship, Inc. to construct a 643-foot oceangoing barge for the California and Hawaiian Sug- ar Company. The vessel, the size of a major merchant ship but de- signed to be pushed by a tugboat, is intended to carry raw sugar and liquid fertilizer.

In announcing the award, BIW chairman John F. Sullivan Jr. said the project will require about 300 workers at its peak, with the barge planned for delivery in

March 1982. He said the contract raises the backlog of the ship- yard, which is a Congoleum com- pany, to a peacetime record of approximately $767 million.

It is the second major project subcontracted to BIW by Sun

Ship, Inc. of Chester, Pa., since last September. The first was a contract of approximately $30 million to construct a hopper dredge.

Kerr Steamship Appoints

Two In Seattle Office

Kerr Steamship Company, Inc. announces the appointment of

David A. Ellithorpe as sales man- ager, Pacific Northwest, located in the Seattle office. He previ- ously served as an area manager for Seatrain Lines, Inc., and comes to Kerr with nine years of West Coast experience.

Kerr also announces the ap- pointment of Capt. John F. Black- ie as cargo superintendent, Pa- cific Northwest. He will be based in the Seattle office to oversee liner vessel stowage in the Pacific

Northwest area. Captain Blackie is transferring from the Marine

Department in San Francisco, where he joined Kerr in Novem- ber 1979 as marine superintend- ent.

Kenneth Nash Named

To Risk Management

Position For Lykes

Kenneth H. Nash has been named director of risk manage- ment and claims for Lykes Bros.

Steamship Co., Inc., a subsidiary of The LTV Corporation, Lykes executive vice president Robert

J. Brennan announced.

Mr. Nash was born and edu- cated in England, and has spent 25 years in the marine insurance business in the United States and

Europe. He is a non-lawyer mem- ber of the Maritime Law Asso- ciation, and an associate member of the Average Adjustors Asso- ciation of America.

Lykes, an American-flag ocean carrier, operates a fleet of ships that serve five continents and ports on the U.S. Gulf, West, and

South Atlantic Coasts, and the

Great Lakes and St. Lawrence

Seaway.