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MSRC Hosts Reception

In New York City

The Marine Spill Response Cor- poration (MSRC)/Northeast Region recently held a reception at the

Whitehall Club's Hudson River Suite in New York City. Invitations were extended to the U.S. Coast Guard, local oil company representatives, pollution response companies, envi- ronmental groups as well as federal, state and local officials from New

York and New Jersey.

J. Stephen Dorrler, general manager of MSRC's Northeast re- gion, said: "This reception in New

York enabled MSRC personnel to meet and become acquainted with local representatives from oil com- panies, maritime agencies, legisla- tors from all government levels, the

U.S. Coast Guard, equipment com- panies, pollution response organi- zations and environmental concerns, and for people to meet and become acquainted with MSRC staff and its objectives. This reception set the groundwork for when MSRC is fully operational and for when we will all be working together to combat oil spills in local waters."

MSRC/NE is temporarily based in Edison, N.J. A site in the New

York/New Jersey harbor will become the permanent location of MSRC's

Regional Response Center (RRC) which will include warehouse and office space as well as dock space for a large oil pollution response vessel.

MSRC's Northeast Region also intends to have equipment at sites in Portland, Maine; Boston, Mass.;

Narragansett Bay, R.I.; Delaware

Bay; upper Chesapeake Bay; and

Norfolk, Va. MSRC/NE's coverage area extends from Maine to the

Ocracoke Inlet of North Carolina.

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Le Havre Development

Plan Nears Completion

The Port of Le Havre Authority, one of France's leading general cargo and container ports, is nearing completion of a $2.2 billion develop- ment plan. According to Charles

Knellwolf, Le Havre's commercial director says that the development has resulted in a 20 percent increase in overall tonnage at the port in the period since its inception in 1986.

Already one of the most competi- tive of the major ports on the En- glish Channel/North Sea route for turnaround time, handling facili- ties and access to markets, Le Havre handles 10 percent of the trade in the Le Havre/Hamburg range of 10 million TEU's.

Mr. Knellwolf predicted that these developments at the port will help increase the trade of 4.7 million tons between Le Havre and the

United States by 25 percent over the next five years. Le Havre/United

States overall trade, a third of which is with gulf ports, consists of 2.6 million tons of bulk cargo and 2.1 million tons of general cargo, mainly carried in containers. 104 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

Gulf Coast Fabrication

Launches Container Barge

Container barge Sea-Barge Trader

Gulf Coast Fabrication, Inc. recently launched the 343-foot con- tainer barge Sea-Barge Trader at its Port Bienville, Miss, facility.

The vessel is owned by Shamrock

Marine Leasing of Portland, Ore., and will carry containers for the Sea

Barge Group from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Juan, Puerto Rico. The barge has a capacity of 660-TEU contain- ers and has a unique hull design which will enable improved towing performance.

For more information sbout the services and facilities of Gulf Coast

Fabricators,

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