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Todd Ceases Operations

At New Orleans Division

Todd Shipyards Corporation has announced that it has put opera- tions at its New Orleans Division on idle status following a six-month strike by Local 29 of the Industrial

Union of Marine and Shipbuilding

Workers of America. According to

Todd president Hans K. Schaef- er, this action was made necessary after the union continued to insist on unrealistic wage and fringe bene- fits demands despite several coun- ter-offers by the company.

At the time of the strike, employ- ment at the New Orleans ship repair facility stood at about 140 work- ers—a relatively low level compared with past periods. At the present time, Todd has no plans to reacti- vate the facility in the near future.

One of the country's leading ship construction and repair companies,

Todd operates shipyards in Seattle,

San Francisco, Los Angeles, and

Galveston. Its recently acquired

ARO subsidiary is an international manufacturer of industrial air pow- ered equipment and aeronautical life support systems.

Carbocoke Orders Two

Supply Vessels From

Ferrari For $8.8 Million

Carbocoke Armamento SpA of

Genoa, a 12-ship fleet specializing in the carriage of liquefied gas and chemicals, has awarded a contract valued at $8.8 million to Cantieri

Ferrari Shipyard in La Spezia for the construction of two supply ves- sels to serve offshore structures.

Each will be of 1,400 gt and be pow- ered by diesel engines with a total output of 8,400 bhp.

Ferrari expects to deliver the two supply vessels before the end of 1987. The La Spezia yard is current- ly building six 2,800-bhp tugboats for Rimorchiatori Riuniti of Genoa under a $14.7-million contract.

Marine Travelift

Introduces New Floating

Boat Hoist Design —Literature Available

Marine Travelift has announced the development of a new "Floating

Boat Hoist" model. The 35-ton- capacity unit was designed for use in ports where conventional launching pier facilities would be impossible or not practical.

Model 35FBH is gasoline powered for adaptability to a wider variety of installation localities. Hydraulic hoist control is utilized to power a single point lift component. The new mode features unitized design to facilitate easy assembly or take- down for containerized shipping be- tween installations.

The first of the floating boat hoist models was installed at Halifax,

Nova Scotia, where it is used to haul the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squad- ron's new 12-meter America's Cup

Challenger, The True North.

Marine Travelift, originator of

February 1, 1986 the mobile boat hoist concept, has been producing boat hoists for over 25 years. Besides the new floating hoist, their line of mobile boat hoists ranges from 15 through 250- ton-capacity.

For further information and spec- ifications on the new floating boat hoist, as well as other models in the line,

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Polish Shipyards To Build 300 Ships For USSR At

Cost of $3.8 Billion

The Soviet Union's next five-year shipbuilding plan includes some 300 vessels of various types to be built by shipyards in Poland at an esti- mated total cost of $3.8 billion.

Included will be cargo ships, fishing vessels, and a variety of special-pur- pose craft. With these orders, Polish shipyards will not experience the severe crisis being felt in other ship- building countries.

The Adolf Warski shipyard in

Szczecin currently is building 16 oceangoing tugs for the Soviet

Union. These will be used mainly to transport material for offshore plat- forms, and will be effective in Arctic areas.

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