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CANADIAN

SHIPBUILDING (continued from page 77) 1984. New government orders dur- ing 1984 included two type 800 nav- aids, two type "F" navaids, one type 1200 medium icebreaker, all for the

Coast Guard, and one acoustic sweep vessel for Fisheries and

Oceans. There was an increase of six units under construction or on order compared to the end of 1983, but an 11.3 percent decrease in tonnage levels. There was a total of 15 new orders in 1984, lower than the 23 recorded last year, but up from elev- en ordered in 1982.

Member yards delivered eight vessels of 51,800 GT in 1984, includ- ing the M.V. "Prairie Harvest", a

Great Lakes self unloader, and the "Bow Drill 3", a semi-submersible drilling rig. This compares with 17 deliveries of 112,300 GT in 1983 and 39 deliveries of 115,400 GT in 1982.

The only export delivery in 1984 was the "Bow Drill 3".

Dollar value of new construction by member yards totalled $288,204,000 during 1984, a drop of 24.5 percent compared to 1983's lev- el of $381,743,000. New construction for export totalled $36,046,000, down 68.8 percent from $115,628,000 in 1983. Of the 1984 total, $36,000,000 was for the "Bow

Drill 3".

Repairs and conversions in- creased 22.8 percent to $250,685,000 from $204,222,000 in 1983. Federal government repairs and conversions amounted to $87,426,000, a 49.6 per- cent increase over 1983 levels.

Total dollar value of new con- struction and repairs and conver- sions slipped to $538,889,000, an eight percent drop from 1983's level of $585,965,000. The estimated val- ue of CSSRA Allied Industries ma- rine production was up 1.5 percent to $155,875,000. Total CSSRA member production declined six percent from $739,465,000 to $694,764,000.

Prices of most materials used by the shipbuilding and ship repair in- dustry showed increases from 1983 to 1984, with the exception of wood products, copper and paints and varnishes, which decreased 5.1, 10.4 and 0.2 percent, respectively.

The world order book registered a decline in number of vessels and tonnage under construction or on order at the end of 1984 in compari- son with 1983 levels. A total of 2,467 vessels, or 30,688,000 GT, were un- der construction or on order at the end of 1984, compared with 2,774 vessels of 32,620,000 GT at the end of 1983. Canada completed five merchant vessels totalling 26,000

GT last year, or 0.1 percent of the world total. Canada had 18 mer- chant vessels, or 0.4 percent of the world total, under construction or on order at December 31, 1984. At the end of 1983, Canada had 17 ves- sels and 0.3 percent of the total world order book.

June, 1985

Liu Elected Vice President

Of American Bureau To

Head R&D Division

Dr. Donald Liu, formerly assist- ant vice president of the American

Bureau of Shipping, has been elect- ed vice president. The announce- ment was made by ABS chairman and president William N. John- ston following the recent annual meeting of the Board of Managers in New York.

Dr. Liu joined ABS in 1966 as a surveyor on the Data Processing

Staff in New York. In 1967 he was transferred to the Hull Technical

Staff, and in 1968 was assigned to the Research and Development De- partment. He was appointed senior surveyor in 1969 and principal engi- neer of research and development in 1973. In 1978 he was named chief research engineer of the R&D De- partment. He became assistant vice president in 1983.

The Research and Development

Department was raised to a Divi- sional level in November 1984. As vice president of this division, Dr.

Liu will direct the many internal

R&D programs of ABS, plus various sponsored research programs, and other research programs carried out in conjunction with companies in the marine and offshore drilling in- dustry.

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