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Chantiers De L'Atlantique Wins Mediterranean Car-Ferry Order

Chantiers de l'Atlantique, a GEC Alsthom subsidiary, has signed a contract with Societe

Nationale Maritime Corse-Mediterranee to sup- ply a large passenger car-ferry to be delivered in the spring of 1996. The ferry, which will be designed to carry 2,400 passengers and 700 cars, will operate between the French Riviera and

Corsica, replacing the existing Napoleon.

The new ferry will be the largest ship in the

Societe Nationale Maritime Corse-Mediterranee fleet, which includes another Chantiers de l'Atlantique-built ferry, the Danielle Casanova.

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Evac Marine Supplies Liners Under

Construction At Fincantieri

Evac Marine Systems of Finland, one of the world's leading supplier of vacuum toilet sys- tems to the shipping industry, has secured con- tracts for the supply of its specialist products to four large passenger cruise liners being built at

Italy's Fincantieri, including what is reportedly the world's largest passenger cruise liner, being built for Carnival Cruise Line. The vessels, whose owners also include P&O Cruises and

Holland America Line, have been secured by

Evac's Italian company, Evac Sri, on the out- skirts of Genoa. For more information on Evac

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Awarded For APL Terminal In L.A.

The first major contract for the nation's larg- est dedicated container terminal has been awarded by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor

Commissioners to Roadway Construction Co.,

Inc., of Newport Beach, Calif.

The board awarded the $10.2 million contract for Phase I of the backland development of the

American President Lines (APL) container ter- minal, a major component of the Port of Los

Angeles' Pier 300 Implementation Program.

Construction is scheduled to begin in May with the completion of Phase I of the backland development expected in early 1995. Work under this contract is expected create 285 direct and indirect jobs in the five-county region.

When the entire project is completed in early 1997, the facility will cover approximately 226 acres at berths 302-305 on Pier 300.

Tidewater Transports 270-Ton Relic

Locomotive

Tidewater Barge Lines of Vancouver, Wash, moved a steam locomotive and tender on a barge from Maryhill, Wash, to the Tri-Cities en route for careful restoration to running order. The 70- year-old Great Northern Railway relic, one of only two of the Great Northern P-2 class to survive, had been in residence at Maryhill Park since 1966.

Tidewater teamed with Neil. F. Lampson Inc. of Kennewick, Wash, and Bats Towing of Biggs

Junction to shift the 270-ton hunk of steel and iron from its siding to the river landing where a special bridge was constructed to enable it to roll onto Barge 33.

Once on the barge, the mountain-type locomo- tive was moved to Tidewater's Biggs fleeting area, where it was placed in a Columbia/Snake River eastbound tow, pushed by the 3,000-hp tug Defi- ance. Once off-loaded at the Port of Pasco, 2507 will undergo about three years of volunteer work in order to get it back in running order.

The preservation group ramrodding the nearly $1 million restoration effort expect to see 2507 as a tourist attraction and hopefully even run it for short excursions.

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Yard In Houston

Trinity's new Houston yard, formerly Platzer Shipyard, Inc.

Trinity Industries, Inc. has acquired Platzer

Shipyard, Inc. of Houston, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The announce- ment was made by John Dane III, president of the Trinity Marine Group. Neal S. Platzer was and will remain president of the shipyard.

Platzer, established in 1949, is a U.S. leader in tank barge cleaning and gasfreeing. The shipyard is now the 14th yard in the Trinity Marine Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trinity Industries,

Inc.

The shipyard's 40-acre facility on Green's Bayou, just off the Houston Ship Channel, employs about 200 people and has capabilities for cleaning up to six barges at a time. The plant uses water, hot water, chemicals and steam in the cleaning pro- cess. A modern LPG flaring facility provides the capability to quickly and safely flare or burn off a wide variety of pressurized flammable products.

The shipyard meets or exceeds all state and feder- ally mandated environmental, safety and waste management requirements.

The new Trinity shipyard also offers design and construction of new barges as well as barge repair, maintenance and sandblasting and paint- ing. It can repair up to 17 barges simultaneously, and is equipped with two marine railways with 1,000 tons capacity each, which can simultaneously dock up to six barges.

Tank barges up to 320 ft. (97.5 m) long with a 65 foot (19.8) beam with up to 1,000 short tons hull weight can be built at the facility. Indoor, modu- lar construction capabilities include double skin or double hull oceangoing barges, hazardous cargo barges, pressure barges and barges with stainless steel cargo tanks for specialized cargoes.

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