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Congressional Leaders

Take Hard Line On Foreign

Shipbuilding Subsidies

Congressional leaders are threat- ening to levy a strong legislative response against foreign govern- ments who practice the use of ship- building subsidies, if the Bush Ad- ministration does not meet the im- pending December 14 deadline for reaching a multilateral agreement to end foreign shipbuilding subsidies.

The threat of such legislation is seen as a means of providing the U.S. with leverage in the ongoing nego- tiations. The U.S. has been involved in negotiations with members of the

Organization for Economic Cooper- ation & Development (OECD) and

South Korea to curb shipbuilding subsidies since early last year.

On October 13, three leading members of the Senate Finance

Committee, Lloyd Bentsen (D-

Texas), Bob Packwood (R-Ore.), and Majority Leader George Mit- chell (D-Maine) wrote U.S Trade

Representative Carla Hills and stated that, "if negotiations are not successful by December 14, we could only conclude that further negotia- tions would be fruitless. . . . We would have to be in a position then to evaluate all other options at our disposal to ensure that continuing unfair trade practices do not further erode the U.S. shipbuilding indus- try."

The U.S. shipbuilding industry contends that it has been unable to compete in the commercial ship- building market because of substan- tial subsidies from foreign govern- ments to their shipyards.

GE Marine Services

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GE Marine Services, Hampton,

Va., has published an eight-page full-color brochure on services the company provides for engine room equipment.

The publication explains that there is a GE Marine Services team near almost any port that can de- liver the high-quality engine room service customers need whenever— and wherever—they need it. From technical direction to complete turnkey installation, maintenance, repair and retrofitting, GE Marine

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For further information and a free copy of the brochure from GE

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Trinity Marine Wins $9-Million Contract

To Build Matson Barge

Gretna Machine & Iron Works,

Inc., Harvey, La., has been awarded a $9-million contract to design and

December, 1990 build a 345-foot, Roll-On/Roll-Off (RO/RO) barge for Matson Naviga- tion Co., Inc., San Francisco, Calif.

The triple-deck, covered vessel will be placed in Matson's Hawaii

Neighbor Islands service, which transports freight between Honolu- lu and port cities on the islands of

Maui, Kauai and the Big Island of

Hawaii. The barge will have the capacity for 298 autos and forty-five 40-foot trailers (or sixty-eight 24- foot containers) on chassis and will also have its own loading ramp.

Overall, the barge will be 345 feet in length, with a 76-foot beam, and a 19-foot depth.

The keel will be laid in December and delivery is scheduled for late 1991.

The announcement was made by

John Dane III, president of the

Trinity Marine Group, which in- cludes Gretna Machine and Iron

Works. He said the contract is an- other indicator of the resurging

American shipbuilding industry and thanked Sen. John Breaux (D-

La.), chairman of the Senate Su- committee on Merchant Marine (Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation) for his con- tinuing efforts to promote U.S. ship- building and maritime industries.

For free literature detailing the shipbuilding services of the Trinity

Marine Group,

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