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Port of Iberia Inaugurates

New Public Dock Facility —Literature Available

The Port of Iberia in Louisiana has just opened a new public dock facility, financed by appropriations from the state legislature. The new facility has been planned as a draw- ing card to aid in the port's efforts to diversify its resident industries and occasional users of the dock and warehouse facilities. "We're only six miles from the

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, proba- bly the most important inland waterway in the nation in terms of freight tonnage transported," port director John Oubre notes, "and storage and docking space so close could be important to any number of industrial plants and suppliers."

In addition, Sterling Sugars, Inc. of

Franklin, La., has some 4,000 acres of adjacent land available for rapid development into new industrial waterfront plant sites.

Phase I of the Port of Iberia pub- lic dock project, priced at $380,888 and virtually completed, includes 200 feet of steel bulkheading along the dock area's No. 4 slip, as well as a concrete loadout slab, an opera- tions building, parking areas, roads, and security fencing.

The facility's second phase, to cost $518,586, includes additional steel bulkheading on the Commer- cial Canal frontage, plus security lighting, restrooms, a sewage plant and water well, and water and power lines.

Phase II of the project, now in its final weeks, covers construction of a 15,000-square-foot steel building, plus waterfront bulkheading, a con- crete loading dock, and other work, at a cost of $650,587. The 100 by 150 foot warehouse building, con- structed on a concrete slab, provides for later additions of offices, over- head cranes, and refrigerated space.

According to Mr. Oubre, inquir- ies as to local freight handling facili- ties and rates for warehouse services have already been received from shipping companies, freight for- warders, and other marine transpor- tation interests. One of them, Lykes

Bros. Steamship Company of New

Orleans, has inquired relative to the delivery of large steel boilers from

West Germany, weighing from 95 to 128 tons, destined for the new Agri- fuels Refining Company's ethanol plant under construction near New

Iberia.

The port director noted that in an effort to make the facility more use- ful to present and prospective ten- ants and others using the Port of

Iberia, an application has been filed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- neers to dredge a 16-foot-deep navi- gation channel directly across Ver- milion Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

To support this application in the face of possible opposition from wildlife, coastal protection, and oth- er groups, the Port of Iberia com- missioners recently signed a con- tract with Louisiana State Universi- ty's Ports and Waterways Institute for a five-month environmental as- sessment study of the trans-Vermil- ion channel project.

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Amhoist Announces $33 Million In Crane

And Puller Orders

Amhoist of St. Paul, Minn. (American Hoist & Derrick Compa- ny), recently received orders for nine revolver cranes and two large puller systems totaling approxi- mately $33 million for its crane divi- sion from Newport News Shipbuild- ing, Ingalls Shipbuilding, and Placid

Oil Company.

Ingalls ordered seven traveling gantry cranes to replace units de- stroyed during hurricane Elaina's passage last year. Newport News purchased its cranes and puller sys- tem as part of the expansion pro- gram for a nuclear submarine as- sembly facility. And Placid Oil's puller system is for mooring a large offshore production platform.

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