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Swiftships Delivers

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API Tanker Conference

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Survival At Sea

A Review

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FMC Receives $280-Million

Increase For 491 LVT7A1

Amphibious Assault Vehicles

FMC Corporation, Ordnance Di- vision, San Jose, Calif., is being awarded a $280,914,514 face-value- increase to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive contract for 491 LVT7A1 Amphibious Assault

Vehicles. The Naval Sea Systems

Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

C$9-Million Conversion

Contract Award To

Burrard Yarrows

The British Columbia Ferry

Corporation has awarded Burrard

Yarrows Corporation a contract for the heightening of the 140-me- ter-long truck ferry Queen of Al- berni for the introduction of a new vehicle deck that will increase the carrying capacity by 150 passen- ger cars. An appropriate increase in passenger seating capacity is also envisaged.

Heightening will be achieved by jacking up 800 tons of superstruc- ture using 68 hydraulic jacks.

The C$9-million conversion that began at the end of February at

Burrard Yarrows Corporation's

Victoria Division is scheduled for completion on June 11, 1984.

Burrard Yarrows has, in the past, carried out similar capacity increases on the British Columbia

Ferry Corporation vessels Queen of Vancouver, Queen of Victoria,

Queen of Esquimalt, and Queen of

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