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In addition to Mid-South and

Electro-Coal, TECO Transport companies include Gulfcoast Tran- sit, an oceangoing tug/barge fleet that carries coal and other bulk products between U.S. Gulf Coast ports, Tampa, and Central and

South America.

Freeman United is a division of

Material Service Corporation, a

Chicago-based subsidiary of Gener- al Dynamics.

MarAd Awards $239,160 Contract To

General Engineering

The Maritime Administration has awarded a $239,160 contract to Gen- eral Engineering & Machine Works,

Inc., 840 Harrison Street, San Fran- cisco, Calif., to prepare the general cargo vessels American Racer and

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SOFEC Gets $3.5-Million

Navy Contract For Single

Point Mooring System

SOFEC Incorporated of Houston has been awarded a $3,471,000 firm- fixed-price Navy contract for one

Single Anchor Leg Mooring (SALM) type of single-point moor- ing. Work will be performed in

Houston (56 percent), Orange, Tex- as (33 percent), and Warren, Ohio (11 percent). The Naval Sea Sys- tems Command, Washington, is the contracting activity (N00024-84-C- 2243).

Hagglunds Increases Its

Offshore Market Interests

AB Hagglunds & Soner in Orns- koldsvik, Sweden, has recently ac- quired a majority interest in the

Liden Group of Lidkoping, Sweden.

The Liden Group develops, manu- factures, and markets drives, con- trols, and brake systems for winches and diving equipment intended pri- marily for marine and offshore ap- plications. Its main customers are offshore operators requiring North

Sea approval for their equipment.

Hagglunds has been increasing its involvement in the offshore market in recent years, and the products and capability of the Liden Group thus forms an important comple- ment to Hagglunds' overall offshore capacity.

The Liden Group will continue to operate as an independent company under its own management. The ac- quisition by Hagglunds will strengthen the cooperation that has been close between the two compa- nies for many years.

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TECO Transport Signs

Export Coal Contract

With Freeman United

James K. Taggart, president of

Tampa-based TECO Transport &

Trade Corporation, has announced the signing of a long-term agree- ment with Freeman United Coal

Mining Company of Chicago to sup- ply river transport, ground storage, and coal-loading services for two million tons of U.S. steam coal des- tined for Ireland during a seven- year period.

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Mr. Tag- gart said that the initial year of the contract calls for a minimum of 110,000 tons, 220,000 the second year, and 330,000 tons for each of the remaining five years.

Source of the coal will be Freeman

United's Fidelity Mine near Du-

Quoin, 111. It will be moved by rail to a dock on the Mississippi south of

St. Louis, where it will be loaded on barges operated by Mid-South Tow- ing Company, a TECO subsidiary.

Mid-South will deliver the coal to the Davant, La., transloading termi- nal of Electro-Coal Transfer Corpo- ration, another TECO company.

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