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Gretna Machine Awarded

Contract To Build

RO/RO Barge For Matson

Matson Navigation Co. has been awarded a $9 million contract by

Matson Navigation Co. to design and build a 345-foot, roll-on/roll-off barge. The barge will be employed by Matson in its Hawaii Neighbor

Islands service.

Det Norske Veritas

Moves N.Y. Regional

And Survey Office

The New York Regional and Sur- vey Office of Det norske Veritas recently relocated its headquarters from Teaneck, N.J., to River Edge,

N.J. The new address for the com- pany is 80 Grand Avenue, Suite 201,

River Edge, N.J. 07661; telephone: (201) 488-0112; telex: 139072 (W.U.)

Veritas NYK; and facsimile: (201) 488-1778.

Oil Spill Response

Center To Be Set Up

At Port Hueneme

Marine Response Corporation,

Washington, D.C., will set up the first U.S. marine spill response cen- ter funded by the oil industry in the

Port of Hueneme, Calif., following a recent lease agreement.

The Marine Spill Response Corp., a non-profit organization funded by oil companies, shippers, receivers of oil and others, is designed to re- spond to oil spills which exceed the local capability to clean up.

Under a 20-year lease signed with

Oxnard Harbor District, which is in charge of the Port of Hueneme, Ma- rine Spill Response Corp. will pay the port $1.03 million annually to lease about 4 acres of office, ware- house and pier space.

The California facility, just one of five planned along the coasts of the

U.S., will be fully operational in 1993. It will have a staff of 68, as well as crews and several ships.

Other facilities are planned for the New York area, Port Ever- glades, Fla., Seattle, Wash., and

Lake Charles, La.

PSRY Contractors

Complete Busy Year —Literature Offered

As 1990 drew to a close, the Port- land Ship Repair Yard (PSRY) counted still another year of solid performance as one of the West

Coast's leading commercial ship- yards.

PSRY is now handling approxi- mately 50 percent of all commercial ship repair on the coast as well as projects for the Navy and Coast

Guard, Military Sea Lift Command,

Maritime Administration, and other government ship repair customers.

PSRY and its three ship repair contractors—Cascade General, Inc. (Cascade), Northwest Marine, Inc. (Northwest), and West State, Inc. (WSI)—and its oil module fabrica- tor Wright, Schuchart Harbor Co., registered more than $200 million in gross sales during the past year.

Employment at PSRY soared during 1990 to a peak total of 3,470 jobs and an average job rate of 2,222 workers. This is the highest employ- ment in 45 years at the Swan Island ship facility.

Wright Schuchart Harbor Com- pany completed the biggest oil mod- ules ever fabricated for ARCO Alas- ka Inc., which were part of a $40 million project sealifted from PSRY to the Alaskan North Slope oil fields.

A major activity during the year was the breakout and activation of four Ready Reserve Force ships lay- berthed at PSRY by Cascade and

Northwest for Persian Gulf service.

With the rehabilitation of Berth 301 at PSRY late in the year, all five of the original repair berths have been upgraded and are ready to serve today's vessels.

About $8.8 million has been in- vested from shipyard revenues in the rehabilitation program which started in 1981.

For free literature on the facilities and capabilities of PSRY,

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