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ON THE

COVER

Photos: Clockwise from logo: Birka Princess built by Valmet's Helsinki yard; photo cour- tesy American Waterways Operators; USS

Curtis; Lawrence H. Gianelli built by Tampa

Shipyards; New York harbor—courtesy

Moran Towing, F.J. Duffy; Glacier Express on sea trials in Puget Sound—Bill Houlton,

Camera Craft; (center) launching of the submarine Newport News at Newport News

Shipyard. $1.8-Million Contract

To Great Lakes Dredging

A $1,784,750 contract for mainte- nance dredging in Barataria Bay

Waterway was awarded to the Great

Lakes Dredge & Dock Company of

New Orleans according to Colonel

Eugene S. Witherspoon, District

Engineer.

The fixed-price contract consists of the removal and satisfactory dis- posal of approximately 1,835,000 cubic yards of shoal material from a 14.7-mile stretch of the waterway located in Jefferson Parish, La.

Dredging begins about 15 miles below Lafitte and extends south- ward to the vicinity of Grand Isle.

The dredging is to restore and help maintain the 12-foot deep naviga- tion channel authorized by Con- gress.

Harty Appointed Manager

Of U.S. Navigation's

Inward Service Department

Frank M. Cangemi, president of U.S. Navigation, Inc., has an- nounced the appointment of Fran- cis (Frank) J. Harty as manager of U.S. Navigation's Inward Service

Department.

He will be responsible for all inward activities on behalf of U.S.

Navigation's principals, The Na- tional Shipping Company of Saudi

Arabia, Scindia Steam Navigation,

America-Africa Line, Breakbulk

Container Line and Maragua Line.

Mr. Harty was previously with

Columbus Line and ELMA, han- dling their inward activities, and brings to U.S. Navigation his exper- tise in handling inbound cargo movements.

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