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Rowbotham Fleet Acquired

By Marine Transport Lines

In a big expansion move, Marine

Transport Lines Inc. (MTL) of Se- caucus, N.J., recently acquired the 25-vessel fleet of the British-based

Rowbotham Tankships from In- gram Corporation of New Orleans.

MTL chairman and chief executive officer James H. Rand said the move "will serve to broaden and diversify MTL's business while ex- panding dramatically MTL's pres- ence in the European market."

Ingram had acquired the British company in 1970 and continued the policy of expansion and replace- ment of tonnage with new and effi- cient ships. MTL intends to retain the present U.K. management and operate the ships, which range from 1,174 to 30,000 dwt, under the Brit- ish flag.

McDermott Gets $48-Million Contract

To Build Drilling And

Production Platform

McDermott International Inc. of

New Orleans has been awarded a $48-million contract by the Chinese

Petroleum Company of Taiwan for engineering, procurement, and con- struction of an offshore drilling and production platform, two wellhead platforms, 40 miles of pipelines, and other equipment for the CBK Field 15 miles north of Hsin Chu. Fabri- cation is expected to begin in Janu- ary and offshore work in May 1986.

Todd Awarded $33-Million Conversion

By Matson Navigation

The Los Angeles Division of Todd

Shipyards Corporation has been awarded a $33-million fixed-price contract by Matson Navigation

Company, San Francisco, Calif., to convert and expand the RO/RO trailership Matsonia into a combi- nation lift-on/lift-off container and

RO/RO trailer carrier.

According to Todd chairman J.T.

Gilbride, it is the first major ship conversion job contracted by Mat- son on the West Coast since 1961.

Engineering work has already commenced at the yard in anticipa- tion of the Matsonia's arrival in Los

Angeles in March. The conversion will get underway in June, and the vessel will be delivered in March 1987.

The 700-foot-long, 92-foot-wide

Matsonia will be cut in two and a 291-foot midsection will be removed and replaced by a 351-foot-long, 105-foot-wide mid-body section.

The conversion will triple the ves- sel's present cargo capacity, enabl- ing it to carry 1,256 containers (TEU), plus 55 forty-foot trailers and 422 automobiles. Her tanks will carry 3,900 long tons of molasses.

The mid-body section will be con- structed on one of the Los Angeles

Division's two shipways, while the vessel will be cut on the Shiplift and

Land Level Transfer (Syncrolift) fa- cility. Upon completion of these op- erations, the vessel will be reassem- bled on the Syncrolift and launched.

Approximately 350 employees will be added to the workforce to per-

Circle 158 on Reader Service Card form the conversion.

Todd Shipyards Corporation, one of the nation's largest independent shipbuilders and ship repairers, op- erates other yards in Seattle, Wash.;

San Francisco, Calif.; Galveston,

Texas; and New Orleans, La.

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