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MSC Awards Contracts

Totaling $154.2 Million

Following competitive procure- ment, the Navy's Military Sealift

Command has awarded six firm- fixed price contracts for the trans- portation of Department of Defense cargo. —$55,093,944 to Central Gulf

Lines, Incorporated of New Orleans,

La., for the charter of two U.S.-flag dry cargo ships, MV Green Wave ($25,074,939) and SS Rover ($30,019,005). MV Green Wave will continue to resupply Greenland and the Antarctic, and SS Rover will be assigned to the ammunition run from Sunny Point, N.C., to Nor- denham, Germany for the resupply of Europe. —$36,839,640.50 to Vessel Chart- ers, Incorporated of New York,

N.Y., for the charter of two U.S.-flag dry cargo ships, SS Santa Adela ($18,294,789.50) and SS Santa Jua- na ($18,544,851). SS Santa Adela will continue to operate from the

U.S. West Coast to mid-Pacific Is- lands and Far East ports supporting all branches of the Armed Forces.

Itineraries include Midway and

Wake Islands and other areas where there is little or no commercial ser- vice. SS Santa Juana will be as- signed the shuttle run between Sub- ic Bay, R.P., and Diego Garcia,

Indian Ocean. This service has been continuous since 1981 and is used to transport containers and breakbulk cargo for the U.S. Navy. —$33,197,249 to American Au- tomar, Incorporated of Washington,

D.C., for the charter of SS LASH

Pacifico, a U.S.-flag dry cargo ship.

The SS LASH Pacific will function as part of the U.S. Navy's Afloat

Prepositioning Force. As such, this ship will be used for the preposition- ing, transportation, and safe stow- age of essential war materials that will be used by U.S. forces deployed to forward sites in a contingency. —$29,119,571 to Maersk Line,

Limited of Madison, N.J., for the charter of MV Elisabeth Maersk, a

U.S.-flag dry cargo ship which will operate from the U.S. West Coast and resupply the Pacific Islands and

Far East ports. 1,000th Golar Marine

Incinerator To Be Installed —Literature Available

A significant milestone will be reached for Golar Metal, Inc., when

Pennsylvania Shipbuilding installs the Golar GS500 Marine Incinerator aboard the second T-AO-187 Class

Fleet Oiler, the Benjamin Isherwood (T-AO-191), which is under con- struction at the yard. The installa- tion will mark the 1,000th delivery of a Golar marine incinerator.

In addition, the GS500 Incinera- tor, which has been specified for the entire T-AO-187 Class, is being in- stalled aboard six Canadian patrol frigates, the first of which is nearing completion at Saint Johns Ship- building Ltd., New Brunswick, Can- ada.

On December 31, 1988, new regu- lations (Annex V to Marpol 73/78) will become effective international- ly, which will concern the disposal of solid waste at sea and restrict the areas where certain wastes can be disposed, especially plastics. The new regulations have increased in- quiries concerning Golar incinera- tors, since the units are designed to be easily retrofitted to existing ships.

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Metal marine incinerators,

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Bart Walsh Receives

ASTM John Haas

Memorial Award

Bart Walsh, Deputy Director,

Operations Division, Naval Sea Sys- tems Command, Washington, D.C., is a recipient of the American Socie- ty for Testing and Materials (ASTM) John Haas Memorial

Award.

Mr. Walsh received the award at ceremonies in Bal Harbour, Fla., hosted by Committee F-25 on Ship- building (one of 140 ASTM techni- cal committees).

Mr. Walsh has been active in

ASTM since 1978 and served as chairman of Subcommittee F25.ll on Machinery for eight years. He is currently third vice-chairman of the committee.

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