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MSC Awards $6.8 Million

Contract To Lykes Brothers

The Navy's Military Sealift Com- mand (MSC) has awarded a require- ments contract to Lykes Brothers

Steamship Company, Inc., of New

Orleans, La., for the estimated amount of $6,800,000.

The contract provides for the weekly containerized delivery of chilled U.S. boxed beef between the

U.S. East Coast and points in North- ern Europe and the United King- dom aboard U.S. flag ocean and intermodal services. The one year contract begins July 1, 1992.

International Consortium

Propose New Panamanian

Container Complex

A proposal to construct a new $200 million container port on

Panama's Atlantic Coast and to modernize local rail and highway systems has been proposed by the

PTC Consortium, a group of nine construction, engineering and con- sulting firms from the U.S., Europe,

Panama and Japan.

The project would turn Panama into the primary connection point between ports in Latin America and major international shipping routes serving Asia, Europe and North

America, according to consortium officials.

Telfers Island, near the Atlantic port of Cristobal, would be the site of the Panama Transshipment

Center's central container terminal and shipping complex. Operations there could begin as early as 1995.

Consortium plans also call for the building of a modern industrial park, the restoration of a now closed trans-

Panama railway and the comple- tion of a toll-highway across the country.

The members of the PTC Consor- tium are: InTecTran Inc., Washing- ton, D.C.; Parsons Brinckerhoff In- ternational, New York; The Indus- trial Bank of Japan; Shimizu Corp.;

Aoki Corp.; HLM SA, Panama;

Boskalis International BV, a Dutch dredging company; Han-Padron

Associates, New York; and Misener

Marine Construction Inc., Tampa.

San Francisco Considers

Tug Escort Guidelines

To ensure the safe navigation and operation of tankers, barges and other vessels within the San Fran- cisco harbor, the San Francisco Har- bor Safety Committee has recently issued a proposal for tug escorting guidelines.

The committee was established by the California Oil Spill Preven- tion, Abatement, and Removal Act of 1990, and is comprised of state and federal government represen- tatives, port authorities, pilots' or- ganizations, labor and environmen- tal organizations and all types of vessel operators.

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Under the new guidelines, the bay will be split into 6 geographic zones. A tug escort is required for any regulated vessel, meaning one that is carrying 5000 metric tons or more of oil or other petroleum prod- uct as cargo, that enters one of three zones in which there is a high risk of a marine incident, such as ground- ing or collision. Regulated vessels that are fitted with Coast Guard certified double-hulls would be ex- empt from the guidelines. For tug crews, the guidelines to provide a set of minimum requirements.

Based on the results of a scien- tific study, a key provision in the guidelines would establish a perma- nent formula for matching tugs to vessels. The provision's interim for- mula states, "tug escorts shall be capable of providing a total ahead static bollard pull in pounds equal to not less than one half of the Regu- lated Vessel's deadweight tonnage."

This would be translated into a regu- lated vessel of 80,000 deadweight tons requiring a tug escort with a minimum of40,000 pounds (20 short tons) of bollard pull.

The committee's proposal to adopt tug escort guidelines must first be reviewed by the San Francisco Bay administrator. If approved, the guidelines would come into effect later this year.

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