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MarAd Awards Crowley

Contract For $150,000

The Maritime Administration has awarded a contract to Crowley Mar- itime Corp., San Francisco, Calif., to maintain three T-l tankers in

Ready Reserve Force (RRF) status for a period of up to 10 years. The contract has an estimated value of $150,000 during the next year.

The RRF is a joint program— administered by MarAd and funded by the U.S. Navy. It is a select com- ponent of the National Defense Re- serve Fleet consisting of vessels which can be activated for sealift operations on 5 to 10 days' notice.

The ships are the USNS Nod- away, USNS Alatna and USNS

Chattahochee. Work under the con- tract could include the activation, operation and deactivation of one or all of the vessels upon notification by the U.S. Navy.

Two of the vessels will be laid up in Japan and one in Hawaii. All will be under dehumidification with ca- thodic hull protection.

Norcontrol Wins Contracts

Valued At $1.5 Million

The Norwegian company Norcon- trol has recently been awarded con- tracts for four advanced surveil- lance systems for maritime traffic.

The orders represent a value of some NOK 13 million (about $1,486 million). One of the systems is for surveillance of an oil field in the

Bass Straight between Australia and Tasmania, the second is for coastal surveillance in the U.K., and the other two are harbor systems for

Plymouth in the U.K. and Halifax in Canada.

Since 1980, Norcontrol has signed contracts for approximately 40 dis- play systems for a total value of some NOK 130 million ($14.86 mil- lion), which represents at least 60 percent of the world market for such maritime surveillance systems. The company's successful penetration of the world market is a result of the ability to develop purpose-designed equipment that allows the operators easy, instantaneous access to all rel- evant information.

MarAd Submits

Final Rule For Governing

Evaluation Of Bids

The Maritime Administration has submitted for publication in the

Federal Register a final rule govern- ing the evaluation of bids submitted to federal agencies by subsidized

U.S.-flag bulk vessel operators for the carriage of dry-bulk preference cargoes.

The new rule requires that oper- ating-differential subsidy (ODS) re- ceived by operators of vessels carry- ing dry-bulk preference cargoes be considered a cost to the government for carriage of such cargoes and be included in calculating reasonable rates for such carriage.

In issuing the rule, MarAd noted that it is intended to ensure equita- ble competition between subsidized and unsubsidized operators of dry- bulk preference cargoes and the car- riage of these cargoes at the lowest cost to the government.

MarAd issued an interim rule on this subject last January (see B84- 021;l/19/84) and requested com- ments from concerned members of the public. Comments were received for six ocean shipping companies and one maritime trade association.

Information on the background of this rulemaking is available in the preamble to the interim rule pub- lished in the Federal Register on

January 24; in Aeron Marine Ship- ping Co., et al., Final Opinion and

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