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U.S. MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING (continued) inland waterway river towboats, the

SuperAmerica, to Ashland oil.

Avondale Shipyards of New Or- leans, while busy with the construc- tion of Navy fleet oilers and landing dock ships, is also hoping to become a third source for the Navy's Arleigh

Burke Class destroyer. Early this year, the shipyard also received con- tracts to build offshore structures for four operators—Apache, Chev- ron, Pennzoil and Shell.

Furthermore, Avondale has agreed to purchase Lockheed Ship- building's Gulfport, Miss., facility for $21 million. Lockheed-Gulfport is currently constructing LCACs for the Navy.

McDermott Inc., New Orleans,

La., delivered the hopper dredge

American Atlantic and announced at the end of last year that they had received a $100-million contract to build to drilling platforms for the

Morecambe field.

In Texas, Houston Ship Repair was busy with a number of Navy and MarAd repair contracts.

On the West Coast, the National

Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) of San Diego is building a fast combat support ships (AOE) and is working on a number of Navy repair contracts.

Continental Maritime, San Fran- cisco, and Southwest Marine, San

Pedro, are both busy with Navy repair contracts.

In Portland, Ore., the Portland

Ship Repair Yard (PSRY) reported it had an excellent year in 1987, recording the highest facility utili- zation in the history of the com- plex.

The facility's repair companies include Northwest Marine Iron

Works, West State, Inc. and Cas- cade General. Some 12 cruise ships have visited the yard over the last two years for major overhauls. The liners Constitution, Rotterdam and

Noordam are already scheduled for stops at the yard.

PSRY is searching for another contractor to join the present three—a firm with a solid base in shipbuilding.

Tacoma Boatbuilding will be fin- ishing the construction of the USNS

Audacious (T-AGOS-11) and the

USNS Bold (T-AGOS-12) next year.

MARCO Seattle has been busy with the construction of a number of smaller craft. Its Campbell Ship- yard in San Diego is building two new tuna seiner models.

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders of

Whidbey Island, Wash., delivered a 156-foot excursion boat for Alaska

Riverways of Fairbanks. Along with

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding,

Somerset, Mass., Nichols Brothers are the exclusive U.S.-licensed builders of International Catama- rans-designed vessels. Last summer,

Gladding-Hearn delivered one of these type vessels, the Mackinac

Express, to Arnold Transport Com- pany of the Great Lakes. It is the first catamaran to operate on the

Great Lakes.

In Alaska, the new Ketchikan yard has a built-in business. The state has mandated that all repair and services performed on Alaskan

State ferries be done within the state.

After delivering the last merchant ship on order in the a U.S. shipyard,

Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay,

Wis., annoouced that it would downsize its operation to support ship repair and conversion work only.

Marinette Marine and Peterson

Builders Inc., both located in Wis- consin, are busy constructing mine countermeasure vessels for the

Navy.

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