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Service Marine Expands

Vessel Repair Operations

Service Marine Industries, Inc., of Amelia, La., is expanding its re- pair capabilities with the installa- tion of a gas-freeing facility and the establishment of an aluminum crew boat repair capability, according to president, Terry Fricky.

The new gas-freeing facility, which will include a 1 million cubic foot capacity nitrogen purging fa- cility, will be used by Service Ma- rine to remove gas from Liquid Pe- troleum Gas (LPG), product, pro- pane and butane barges. Both fa- cilities will meet all EPA and DEQ clean air requirements. As part of this new capability, the company has also increased the length of its large drydock to 200 feet and its lifting capability to 2100 tons.

Mr. Fricky said that Service Ma- rine will have the closest gas-free- ing facility in the immediate area and will provide operators with con- venient gas and fuel barge repair service along their tow routes.

The shipyard's new aluminum repair facility will be overseen by

Joe Prejean, who with over 28 years of experience in the construc- tion and repair of aluminum boats will be the yard foreman in charge of all aluminum boat repairs.

Tom Hensley, vice president of marketing, also reported that Ser- vice Marine is working on a 210- foot, 1200-passenger, four-deck ca- sino boat for Harrah's Joliet, Illinois location to be delivered in January 1993.

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Georgia Port Authority

Gets Approval For Port

Improvements

The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has received $350 million from the Georgia State General Assem- bly to begin its broad-based Focus 2000 Savannah River port improve- ment scheme that is scheduled to be completed at the end of the decade.

The initial phase of the $86 mil- lion project calls for a $43 million deepening of the Port of Savannah channel to 42 feet from the current 39 feet, allowing the facility to ac- commodate the next generation of large containerships. Part of the dredging will be paid for by the fed- eral government, which will reim- burse the GPA.

As a result of the redevelopment scheme, the GPA predicts that waterborne commerce at its facili- ties will increase from last year's $4.3 billion to $6.6 billion in the year 2000. This would represent a growth in earnings of $1.3 billion, compared to $865 million last year.

For the state of Georgia, it is esti- mated that tax revenues generated by the GPA's public port terminals would increase to $173 million from $112 million in 1991.

Ian-Conrad Bergan Names

Scherger US Sales Manager

Jack Scherger has been ap- pointed to the newly created post of

U.S. sales manager by Ian-Conrad

Bergan, Inc., of Gulf Breeze, Fla., to service the U.S. tank barge fleet. "The volume of our U.S. business has increased significantly in the last year or so and it was obviously time to bring in someone to help us handle this growing market seg- ment," said Christian Bergan, the company's vice president.

Mr. Scherger has 30 years of experience as a marine engineer, be- ginning with his graduation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, in Kings Point, N.Y.

Founded in Norway in 1975, Ian-

Conrad Bergan, Inc., has operated as a U.S. corporation since 1980. As

Bergan Tank Control, the company designs and manufactures control systems for the marine industry, spe- cifically for overfill protection and

VOC control. There are currently over 6,000 Bergan alarm units in operation throughout the world.

Bergan's international sales are handled by sales representatives in 17 locations in Europe and the Far

East.

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Conrad Bergan, Inc.,

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