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Bethlehem Steel Corporation an- nounced in January of this year that it was divesting itself of its yards in

Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas and its Singapore facility, and con- solidating its shipbuilding opera- tions at Sparrows Point, Md. Da- vid H. Klinges, president, marine construction for Bethlehem, said "(the move) will make us more com- petitive and will enable us to re- spond to the needs of the reduced marketplace more effectively."

The new division will market and produce offshore drilling platforms, naval and commercial ships and other marine products and provide a full range of vessel repair and modification services.

At present, the Bethlehem-Spar- rows Point yard is building two oceanographic survey ships for the

Navy.

In addition, the company also re- cently leased a 44,000-ton-capacity floating drydock to supplement its 1,200-foot-long graving dock. The drydock has been successful in at- tracting repair business, and has been fully booked since its inaugu- ration.

Newport News Shipbuilding, the country's largest shipyard, is cur- rently building two Nimitz Class aircraft carriers, the USS Abraham

Lincoln (CVN-72) and the USS

George Washington (CVN-73), and has received a first advanced con- tract to start work on two additional carriers. The yard also has a number of attack submarines under con- struction for the Navy.

Norshipco is one of the busiest yards on the East Coast in both the naval and commercial repair and conversion sectors.

Smaller repair yards abound in the area, such as Colonna's Ship- yard, Metro Machine and Moon En- gineering, who are all involved in

Navy repair work.

In Florida, the Jacksonville Ship- yard is involved with both commer- cial and naval repair and mainte- nance work.

American Shipbuilding's Tampa

Shipyards is currently working on the conversion of two national De- fense Reserve Fleet ships into auxil- iary crane ships.

The Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries is currently constructing or has on order 10

Ticonderoga Class cruisers, one Ar- leigh Burke Class destroyer and three amphibious assault ships for the Navy. In addition, the yard is also modernizing the battleship

Wisconsin, and has a number of

Navy repair contracts.

The Trinity Shipbuilding Group of Trinity Industries operates four shipbuilding and repairing compa- nies with six yards in the Gulf. The yards include: Halter Marine, at

Lockport, La. and Moss Point,

Miss.; Moss Point Shipyard, Esca- tawpa, Miss.; Equitable Shipyards,

New Orleans and Madisonville, La.; and Gretna Machine & Iron Works,

Harvey, La.

Halter Marine's Moss Point yard is building six 224-foot T-AGOS ocean surveillance ships for the U.S.

Navy. The company's Lockport fa- cility has just begun the construc- tion of a 110-foot harbor tug for

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Chevron USA.

Moss Point Marine is completing the fourth of four 275-foot Logistic

Support Vessels (LSVs) for the U.S.

Army and is also building two 65- foot pushboats and a 105-foot tug for Jordan. The yard is also building a 125-foot tug, a 161-foot ferry for the state of North Carolina and a 100-foot ferry for the state of Tex- as.

Equitable Shipyards is building an 85-foot ferry for use in the Virgin

Islands, a 50-foot pilot boat for Jor- dan and finishing a 122-foot crew- boat and a 101-foot crewboat.

Gretna Machine & Iron Works is building a 470-foot coal barge and is busy with ship repair, conversions and barge cleaning.

According to John Dane III, president of the Trinity Marine

Group, his company has bid over $100 million in projects in the last three months and the group now employs about 1,000 people.

Quality Shipyards of Houma, La., recently delivered the third of three (continued) f 8 8 0 0 J m 1 * 4- ~ ' v

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