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PSRY Increases Share

Of Commercial Ship Repair

During its fiscal year completed

June 30, 1991, the Portland Ship

Repair Yard (PSRY) reported it in- creased its West Coast share of the commercial ship repair market from 31 percent to 42 percent.

According to Bruce Robeson, the port shipyard director, gross sales for the port of Portland and its three ship repair contractors, Cas- cade General, Inc., Northwest Ma- rine, Inc., and West State, Inc., amounted to about $270 million as compared to about $200 million in gross sales for the previous fiscal year.

Although the number of drydock- ing and berth repairs were down from the previous year, Mr.

Robeson said the "dollar value" of the jobs PSRY were higher and the work was more complex.

During the 1990-91 fiscal year,

PSRY had 74 drydockings and 118 ships were repaired at berth.

Mr. Robeson said what is most significant about the shipyard's 42 percent marketshare is Portland has no shipbuilding and limited Navy work. "We've registered this volume with commercial and non-Navy gov- ernment work, a smaller amount of

Navy work and no shipbuilding."

A large part of Portland Ship Re- pair Yard's workload is tanker over- haul and repair work.

Alaskan Cruises May

Increase If Bills Pass

The number of cruises to Glacier

Bay National Park in Alaska could jump significantly under new rules proposed in Congress. If the bills are approved, the number of cruises would increase from 107 to 180 a year.

The changes are contained in bills sponsored by Alaskan Republicans

Rep. Don Young and Sen. Frank

Murkowski.

The current limit on cruise ships in the bay was established in 1983 following a study by the National

Marine Fisheries Service which showed a dwindling whale popula- tion.

Sightings of whales, however, in recent years have increased signifi- cantly, according to a spokesman for the National Park Service.

Tourism in the area is booming.

Last year, about 154,500 passen- gers took cruises into Glacier Bay, most embarking from the ports of

Seattle, Vancouver and Anchorage.

Cunard, Holland America

Westours, Royal Viking Line, Salen

Lindblad Cruises, Seven Seas

Cruises, and World Explorer Cruises all serve the area.

Marine Gears Supplies

Haley Marine Gears

For Tug Installations

Marine Gears, Inc., Greenville,

Miss., recently supplied sets of Haley

Marine Gears for installation aboard three tugs for two separate owners.

One set of Haley FMC (Flywheel

Mounted Clutch) RH2835 marine gears, was sold to Avondale Boat

Division of Westwego, La., for in- stallation aboard the newly built

Capt. Bud Bisso. The gears, rated at 1,950 hp at 900 rpm, were mated to two EMD 16-645-E6 diesel engines and have ratios of 4.9:1. The tug, built for E.N. Bisso & Sons, New

Orleans, La., is a versatile dual pur- pose performer that is primarily used as a ship-docking vessel, with its rounded bow and large rudders, but she is also classed ABS A-l Full

Ocean Service for ocean duty with large fuel and water tanks. The heavy construction of the M/V Capt.

Bud Bisso is said to exceed ABS requirements.

A second set of Haley gears, two

Haley GMC (Gear Mounted Clutch), 2424 marine gears, were sold to Cres- cent Towing & Salvage Co., Inc.,

New Orleans, La., for installation on the MV G. Shelby Fridichs and the MV Ned Ferry, ship-handling and docking tugs. These Haley gears were rated 3,000 hp at 1,050 rpm and have a ratio of 4:1. The gears were mated with General Electric 7

FDM12 diesel engines. Both tugs were completely rebuilt and repow- ered by Main Iron Works, Houma,

La.

For free literature detailing the full line of Haley Marine Gears from

Marine Gears, Inc.,

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