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White House Urged To

Extend New Maritime

Subsidy Program

It is reported that U.S. shipping lines are hoping that the Bush Ad- ministration expands the length of its proposed maritime subsidy pro- gram beyond its currently planned 7 years.

The Administration recently un- veiled a comprehensive maritime policy that features a "contingency retainer program" designed to re- place current operating subsidies (see July 1992 issue of Maritime

Reporter, page 11, "New Maritime

Policy Proposal - U.S. Owners Could

Place $5 Billion In New Ship Or- ders").

The government would provide

U.S.-flag operators with $2.5 mil- lion a year for each militarily useful ship signed-up with the program, up to a maximum of 74 vessels. The size of the retainer would drop to $1.6 million a ship by the year 2001, the seventh and final year of the program.

In exchange for the subsidy, op- erators would agree to make all of their vessels in the program imme- diately available to the military dur- ing a national emergency.

It is reported that U.S. carriers would like to see the new program extended by at least an additional ten years.

Houston Ship Repair

Wins $8.2 Million MarAd

Contract

The U.S. Maritime Administra- tion (MarAd) recently awarded an $8,177,027 firm fixed-price contract to Houston Ship Repair,

Channelview, Texas, for the conver- sion of the tanker SS Petersburg into an Offshore Petroleum Dis- charge System (OPDS) ship.

Begun in 1984, the OPDS pro- gram is designed to deploy up to 4 miles of conduit from ship to shore and begin delivering petroleum products to military beach units within 48 hours. After discharging its own cargo, other tankers tie up to the OPDS ship moored offshore and transfer their cargoes over the beach through the OPDS pipeline.

The fourth vessel in the OPDS program, work on the Petersburg is expected to take 13 months. Upon redelivery the tanker will join

MarAd's Ready Reserve Force for use in a national emergency.

Textron, IAI Team Will

Manufacture And Market

Dvora MK-II Patrol Boat

New Orleans-based Textron Ma- rine Systems, a division of Textron,

Inc., and Israel Aircraft Industries'

August, 1992 (IAI) Ramta, a facility of IAI's Tech- nologies Division, have signed an agreement to manufacture and mar- ket Ramta's Super Dvora MK-II patrol boat. The team will compete in the U.S. Special Operations Com- mand (USSOCOM) Mark-V pro- gram.

The Mark-V will be produced by

USSOCOM and used by Navy Seals for fast insertion missions. The boat is required to be air transportable and suitable for drug interdiction missions in river environments.

Congress has placed the Mark-V program on a "fast track" with full prototype testing scheduled for Fis- cal Year 1993.

Under the teaming agreement,

Ramta will provide a Super Dvora boat for the prototype testing phase of the Mark-V program and Textron will conduct the engineering and construction of the production boats.

Textron Marine Systems, a world leader in air cushion technology, is the principle builder of the Navy's

Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) and is also building 47-foot motor lifeboats for the U.S. Coast Guard.

For free literature about the MK-

II patrol boat and the various ser- vices offered by Textron Marine Sys- tems,

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