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Alexander Manufacturing Wins Contract

For Pilot Hoists

Alexander Manufacturing and Service Co. (AMS) announced the sale of six AMS M-80 powered pilot hoists. These proprietary air powered hoists are

USCG-approved and reportedly facilitate the easy boarding of vessels with high freeboards. The president of AMS, Charles Morris, reports that the six units will be utilized by a domestic tanker fleet. Mr. Morris said the AMS units have been successfully utilized worldwide. For more infor- mation on Alexander Manufacturing,

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IMO Addresses Piracy In East Asia

Piracy against shipping reportedly became a glaring problem in an area between Hainan, Hong

Kong and the Philippines, according to informa- tion received by the International Maritime Orga- nization (IMO), the U.S. agency concerned with maritime safety and pollution prevention.

In an attempt to combat the problem, IMO reported that its Secretary General William A.

O'Neill will send a senior official to east Asia on a fact-finding mission. The representative will talk with government officials, Coast Guards, ship- owners and others involved. He will prepare a report for consideration by the Maritime Safety

Committee, IMO's senior technical body (which will hold its 63rd session at IMO's London head- quarters May 16-25).

The greatest number of attacks by then was taking place in the Malacca/Singapore Strait area, and in 1993 an IMO working group went there to discuss the problem with representatives of the coastal States, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

During the last two years, the problem in that area has reportedly been greatly reduced, thanks pri- marily to measures introduced by the three gov- ernments, including the use of joint naval patrols.

NASSCO Joins In Ceremony For Start Of

Sealift Conversion Program

National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) of San Diego recently joined the U.S. Army and

U.S. Navy in a joint ceremony to mark the begin- ning of the Navy Sealift Conversion Program.

In July 1993, NASSCO received a $635 million contract from the U.S. Navy to convert three containerships purchased from the Maersk ship- ping line to Strategic Sealift Ships.

The three ships will be converted into combined

RoRo and lift-on/lift-off (LoLo) ships that strategi- cally pre-position U.S. Army equipment and ve- hicles near potential areas of conflict.

Speaking at the ceremony were Lt. Gen.

Johnnie E. Wilson, Deputy Chief of Staff for

Logistics, U.S. Army; A.B. "Ted" Ruhly, chair- man of Maersk Lines Ltd.; and A1 Lutter, Jr., senior vice president of NASSCO. Gen. Wilson used a steel cutting torch to make the ceremonial "first cut" on the T-AKR 295 (formerly Laura

Maersk), the first of three ships to be converted.

The conversion process entails building six new cargo decks, installing internal and external ac- cess ramps, furnishing new cargo hatches for each deck, creating two side ports, and adding two twin- boom cranes to allow the ships to lift their own cargo on and off.

NASSCO was also recently awarded a $265 million contract to design and build another Sealift

Ship, with options to build five more for a total possible contract value of $1.3 billion.

For more information on NASSCO,

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