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Alabama Shipyard Wins

Contract To Build Barge

Alabama Shipyard, Inc., of Mo- bile, Ala., has signed a contract with

Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.,

Inc., of Iuka, Miss., to build a 267- foot by 69-foot by 18-foot ASRM

Motor Set Barge. Delivery of the vessel is scheduled for September 1994.

The vessel is designed to carry the advanced solid rocket motors for the Space Shuttle Program to and from Lockheed's Yellow Creek Mis- sissippi Plant and the Florida east coast. The space shuttle external tank can also be supported by the barge.

Alabama Shipyard, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atlan- tic Marine Holding Company, Inc. of

Jacksonville, Fla.

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Shipyard,

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Mannesmann Delivers

Second Pair Of Cranes

Following its delivery of two mo- bile harbor cranes to Canada's Port of Toronto, Mannesmann Demag

Gottwald GmbH, a leading manu- facturer of mobile harbor cranes based in Dusseldorf, Germany, has commissioned two further cranes, type HMK 280 E, in St. Johns, New- foundland. The multi-purpose ma- chines are being used by the Oceanex company in St. Johns for loading and unloading containerships. The diesel-electric powered mobile har- bor cranes are specially designed for the cold climates of North America and feature 100-ton hoisting gear.

The operators report an average handling rate of 22 to 25 containers per hour. According to the manufac- turer, mobile harbor cranes offer outstanding flexibility in operation.

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Mannesmann Demag Gottwald,

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