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Dillingham Maritime Delivers

Building Modules To Valdez

For Transport To North Slope

Dillingham Maritime recently delivered 124 building modules and support materials on three separate sailings from Seattle to the Port of Valdez, Alaska. The cargo was en route to

Alaska's North Slope for the Conoco, Inc.,

Group Milne Point oil development project.

The delivery demonstrated the advantages of routing tug and barge shipments destined for the North Slope through the Port of Valdez.

After arriving in Valdez, the cargo was trucked 920 miles to Milne Point, which is located 35 miles from Prudhoe Bay.

The modules were delivered to Valdez aboard 274- and 250-foot Foss barges, towed by the 2,900-hp tug Stacey Foss. Each module meas- ured up to 60 feet long, 14 feet wide and 11 feet 10 inches high. The modules, manufactured by

Olympic in Boise, Idaho, were trucked to Seat- tle's Foss Terminal for loading on barges for the journey to Valdez.

The modules were loaded aboard the barges by the Foss 300, a 75-ton-capacity steam crane which provided the precise positioning neces- sary to stack the long units two high.

The first oil from Milne Point is expected to be received at the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Marine

Terminal in Valdez in early 1986.

Dillingham Maritime maintains a U.S.-flag fleet of some 100 tugs and more than 100 barges, and serves major ocean transportation markets including the U.S. West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii, the Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico and Central and

South America.

ASEA Hagglunds Establishes

New Division For Marketing

Cargo Cranes In The U.S.

ASEA Hagglunds Inc., Houston, Texas, has established a new division for the marketing of

Hagglunds cargo cranes in the United States.

The transfer of these responsibilities from

ASEA Stal to ASEA Hagglunds became effec- tive September 1984.

The new marine division will be directed by

John A. Albino, executive vice president and 19-year veteran of the company. Mr. Albino will direct the division from ASEA's Yonkers,

N.Y. facility. His responsibilities will be to fur- ther strengthen the company's position in the marine and offshore industry with the utiliza- tion of existing and recently acquired products.

Claes G. Spens, president of ASEA Hag- glunds, has stated that the marine and offshore division has been added as part of the corporate plan to bring all Hagglunds products under one organization. These products include Hagglunds hydraulic drives, specialized transportation equipment, deck cranes and offshore equip- ment.

ASEA Hagglunds has supported the U.S. maritime industry for 14 years with U.S. manu- factured goods, centralized service, parts and operator training.

ASEA Hagglunds is a division of ASEA, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the worldwide ASEA

Group. ASEA designs, manufactures and mar- kets hydraulic, electronic, electrical, metallurgi- cal and robotic equipment and systems for the transportation, marine, utility, pulp and paper, chemical, metal, mining and industrial mar- kets.

For further information on ASEA Hag- glunds,

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Southwest Marine Awarded Two

Contracts Worth $2.8-Million

Southwest Marine, San Pedro Division, has been awarded a $1.24-million contract by the

Military Sealift Command, Pacific, for the dry- docking and lay-up of the USNS Comet.

The 449-foot-long Comet, a T-AKR with a gross tonnage of 13,793 tons, will be in dry dock for approximately 15 days for work on the hull, sea valves and the shafting.

Following drydocking and some post dock work, the Comet, which is being transferred from active to inactive status, will be prepared by Southwest Marine for lay-up with MarAd.

The contract on the Shoshone, valued at $1.6 million dollars, is for drydocking, a complete paint job and maintenance work on valves, pip- ing and pumps.

The Shoshone, a 659-foot tanker, is owned and operated by the Maritime Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce.

Videoteleconferencing Systems

To Be Built By COMSAT General

COMSAT General Corporation recently an- nounced that it has been selected by the Naval

Underwater Systems Center (NUSC) to con- struct three modular full-motion color videotel- econferencing systems. The systems will link the

Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters, located in Arlington, Va., with research labora- tories operated by NUSC in Newport, R.I., and

New London, Conn. Total value of the contract to COMSAT General is $2.9 million.

Full implementation and operation of

NUSC's videoteleconferencing system is ex- pected by mid-1985. Part of a demonstration project being conducted by the Navy Laborato- ries Technical Office Automation and communi- cation System (N ALTO ACS), the new system will improve NUSC's ability to communicate between dispersed groups working on common programs. The network will allow simultaneous transmission and reception of voice, full-motion video, still graphics and data.

Commenting on the contract award, COM-

SAT general president Robert W. Kinzie said: "The Navy is moving rapidly into the realm of advanced telecommunications capabilities, seeking more efficient and productive use of labor, enhancement of meetings through greater participation and, cost savings in time, travel and money. The teleconferencing rooms now being built for NUSC by COMSAT General are a major component of realizing those goals."

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