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AWO (continued from page 11) positions enacted by a Congress then eager to encourage equipment production. This capacity, born of these false expectations, now lies fallow. Government imposed higher user taxes would truly add insult to injury and risk sinking the commer- cial barge industry.

At AWO we have our work cut out for us exorcising the pork barrel demon as an accepted synonym for any waterway project. We also need to work harder on improving our industry's image and elevating its profile. And we need to get the Gov- ernment to take a sensible look at some of the existing programs and proposed policies which have al- ready had, or which would have, the effect of wreaking more havoc on our industry.

We seek partnership with govern- ment to achieve a water carrier ver- sion of revenue adequacy.

But the battle before which all the others pale is the battle over the proposed CSX/ACBL merger/ac- quisition. The stakes are very high for all of us. The stakes are literally monopoly versus free trade. Our in- dustry pleads for and respectfully demands that the Government turn about and act to maintain a bal- anced transportation system which gives no unfair advantage to any segment: a system which is passive in its encouragement of competition but which is aggressively active in its discouragement of monopoly power.

Burrard Yarrows Awarded $1-Million Navy Contract

To Refit Cable Ship

Burrard Yarrows Corporation of

North Vancouver, British Colum- bia's largest shipbuilder, recently won its first contract from the U.S.

Navy—a $l-million refitting job on the cable repair ship USNS Nep- tune (ARC-2). The Canadian yard has bid unsuccessfully on six Navy contracts during the past three years. Burrard is able to bid on selected categories of U.S. Navy re- pair work under a U.S-Canada de- fense work-sharing agreement. The recent contract will provide 30,000 man-years of employment at the

BYC yard.

In announcing the contract, Bur- rard's marketing director Quintin

Watt, said: "We have been trying to get involved on this work since 1981.

We bid six contracts before we got the price right and landed this one.

Now that we know we can do it, we hope to get more work of this sort."

Commissioned in 1953, the Nep- tune is operated by the Navy's Mili- tary Sealift Command.

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