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Dresser Pump Offers

Free Color Brochure On

Marine Fire Systems

The Dresser Pump Division of

Dresser Industries, Croydon, U.K., is offering interested customers a six-page color brochure that clearly and concisely describes the company's full line of marine fire fighting systems.

Dresser's brochure is illustrated with several color photographs of its pumps and fire monitors in vari- ous installations aboard British har- bor tugs and North Sea oil supply ships.

Several charts, diagrams and graphs are included to provide the reader with the information neces- sary for selecting fire fighting sys- tems, such as: Outline Dimensions of Axially Split Centrifugal Fire

Pumps; Classification Society Re- quirements For Fire Systems; Typi- cal Piping Layout Water Systems; and Performance Requirements For

Fire Fighting Systems, which shows graphic ratios for fire system verti- cal throw range.

To receive a free copy of Dresser

Pump's brochure on marine fire fighting systems,

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Successful Brazilian

Waterways Project Would

Cut Transportation Costs

If successful, a plan that would make the Paraguay and Parana river system navigable by barges could reduce Brazilian farm com- modity freight rates by 75 percent, according to David Atkinson, In- ter-American Development Bank (LADB) representative to Brazil.

The $200 million river develop- ment project calls for the dredging of the Paraguay River and some of its tributaries, allowing barge traf- fic to travel up to 1,800 miles north of the Plate River Delta. So far $7 million has been appropriated by the IADB towards studies on the concept.

It is hoped that most of the project could be financed by commercial companies operating under conces- sion contracts from the 4 South

American nations covered by the river system: Brazil, Argentina,

Paraguay and Uruguay. After completion, construction costs would be recovered by the compa- nies through the laying of user fee charges on river traffic. "The beauty of it is that large-scale public works such as locks and dams are not necessary," Mr. Atkinson contin- ued.

Once completed, the navigable waterways system would allow farmers and businesses in the Bra- zilian interior to transport their produce to world markets by river.

Currently, goods must travel the 1,200 miles from the interior by truck to Brazil's seaports of

Paranagua and Santos, with farm

June,1992 commodity freight rates often reach- ing as much as $80 a metric ton.

Newport News Shipbuilding

Honors Top 10 Suppliers

Newport News Shipbuilding re- cently honored a select group of its more than 3,500 active suppliers nationwide during a "Top Ten Sup- pliers" ceremony.

Among this year's group is Norton

Company ofW orcester, Mass., which has provided the shipyard with abra- sives for more than 40 years.

The other companies featured were: Alco Welding and Machine

Company, Inc., Norfolk; Clyde C.

Nance Construction Company Inc.,

Hampton; Indusco Corporation, Vir- ginia Beach; Production Supply Co.,

Inc., Chesapeake, VA; CBI Services,

Inc., Cordova, Ala.; The Claremont

Company, Inc., Meriden, Conn.;

Henschel Inc., Newburyport, Mass.;

Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc., Phila- delphia, PA; and York International

Corp., York, Pa.

Newport News Shipbuilding is the only builder of U.S. Navy air- craft carriers and one of only two domestic shipyards building subma- rines. The yard is Virginia's larg- est private employer and the largest private shipyard in the Western

Hemisphere.

KPMG Peat Marwick

Wins $5.3 Million Navy

Sub Systems Contract

The Naval Undersea Warfare

Center Division, Newport, R.I., awarded a $5.3 million contract to

KPMG Peat Marwick, Washington, to provide engineering management support services for submarine com- bat systems programs. The contract number is N66604-92-D-B136

MARINE PRODUCTS DIVISION

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LIQUID CARGO VESSELS

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