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ON THE

COVER

Ekhabi Delivered

By Far East

Livingston

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RTCM Assembly

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Navigation/

Communications

Review

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Lykes Line Awarded

Navy Charter Contracts

Totaling $68.9 Million

Lykes Bros. Steamship Com- pany of New Orleans has been awarded two Navy contracts of $34,453,059 each for the charter of the U.S.-flag breakbulk freighters

Elizabeth Lykes and Louise Lykes that will deliver Department of

Defense cargo worldwide. The charter period is four years. The

Navy's Military Sealift Command,

Washington, D.C., is the contract- ing activity.

Rauma Yard Gets Contract

To Build STO-RO Paper

Carrier For Finnish Owner

Rauma-Repola's Rauma Ship- yard recently received another do- mestic order, the second within two months, to build an 8,000-dwt

STO-RO paper carrier for Gustaf

Erikson of Mariehamn, Finland, with delivery scheduled for May 1985. This contract fills in the present gaps in the yard's employ- ment to a satisfactory level, and with the other orders expected in the near future the yard will be fi- nally back to normal.

Previously, Rauma-Repola's

Uusikaupunki Shipyard had built refrigerated cargo vessels for the same Mariehamn-based owner. The new vessel is intended for trans- portation of paper as well as RO/

RO cargoes, and she is similar to the two STO-RO carriers under construction at the yard except for an increased length of 15 meters (49.2 feet) and some specialties such as wider range of operation.

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