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Controlling over 35,000 barges and 7,500 tugs and towboats, inland operators are vital to the movement of petroleum and crude products, grain, and other cargo along the coasts, harbors, rivers and waterways of the U.S. MARITIME

REPORTER annually devotes its March issue to the American Waterways Operators, a national organization representing the interests of inland and coastal waterways operators. Photo: Dixie

Carriers.

INSIDE

A WO Annual: Legislative

Challenges Face American

Waterways Operators 13

Inland Operators

Speak Out 16

Circle 261 on Reader Service Card

Shipyard Survey: Activity Up

At Small And Medium Yardsl8

A Showcase of Outstanding

Cruise Ships 37

GPS: Plots the Future of

Navigation & Communications 57

GMDSS: Historic Change in

Maritime Safety Communica- tions 61

Navigation & Communications:

What's New For '92 64 $1.5 Million Pact

To Atlantic Drydock

The hydrofoil missile ship USS

Pegasus (PHM-1) will undergo a drydocking selected restricted avail- ability at Atlantic Drydock Corpo- ration, Jacksonville, Fla. The con- tract is worth $1.54 million.

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