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MARITIME REPORTER

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ENGINEERING NEWS

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Shiplift/Drydocking

Systems Review

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Expoship Riomar

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Navy Update

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Northwest Marine Awarded $12.3-Million Navy Contract

To Overhaul Destroyer

Northwest Marine Iron Works of

Portland, Ore., has been awarded a $12,351,551 fixed-price-incentive

Navy contract for the regular over- haul of the destroyer USS Cushing (DD-985). Work is expected to be completed by July 17, 1986. Con- tract funds would have expired at the end of the current fiscal'year.

Seven bids were solicited and four offers were received. The Naval Sea

Systems Command, Washington,

D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-85-R-8523).

Ground Broken For New

Siemens-Allis Headquarters

Building In Georgia

Siemens-Allis Inc. recently held a ground-breaking ceremony for its new national headquarters building in Alpharetta, Ga., about 25 miles north of downtown Atlanta. Presid- ing over the event was Harry S.

Burker Jr., Siemens-Allis presi- dent and chief executive officer, who was welcomed to the Alpharet- ta community by Mayor Jimmy

Phillips. Occupancy of the five- story, 120,000-square-foot building is scheduled for the fall of 1986.

Siemens-Allis, a manufacturer of electrical and electronic equipment and systems, has been based in At- lanta since 1978. Jointly owned by

Siemens and Allis-Chalmers, the company has facilities throughout the U.S. and its products are mar- keted worldwide.

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