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$148.6 Million Dredging

Contract Awarded

In Los Angeles

A $148.6 million contract for the largest dredging and landfill project in the U.S. was awarded by the Los

Angeles Board of Harbor Commis- sioners to The Pier 400 Construc- tors, a joint venture of Great Lakes

Dredging & Dock Co. and Connolly-

Pacific Co.

The dredging project is the cor- nerstone of the Port of Los Angeles

Pier 300/400 Implementation Pro- gram, an expansion project to help accommodate an expected doubling of cargo by the year 2020. The three-year dredging project, which is scheduled to begin this August, will generate a total of 4,200 direct and indirect jobs in the region, with 2,100 jobs created during the peak year of construction in 1995. Total regional industry sales are expected to amount to nearly $215 million.

The dredging of 30 million cubic yards of material will produce wa- ter depths of 45 to 63 ft. (13.7 to 19.2 m) to accommodate deep-draft containerships and dry bulk ves- sels. The dredged material will be contained behind rock dikes, creat- ing a 265-acre portion of a new land mass called Pier 400. The new land in the Port's outer harbor will be available for future terminal devel- opments as part of the total 582 acres planned for Pier 400.

This program includes the con- struction of the American President

Lines Container Terminal, report- edly the largest facility of its kind in the nation; the Los Angeles Export

Terminal, a state-of-the-art dry ex- port facility; and an intermodal con- tainer transfer facility.

Atlantic Champion Gets $29-Million Restoration At

Marystown Shipyard

The Atlantic Champion, Ottawa's

Department of Fisheries and

Oceans' newly acquired Fisheries

Assessment Research Vessel (FARV), will be managed in-house by the Department's Vessel Man- agement Directorate.

The department sought bids to determine whether industry would be able to provide more cost-effec- tive management of the vessel. All five bids received, which ranged from $4.1 to $5.1 million for the first year of operation, were higher than the in-house projected cost of $3.7 mil- lion.

The Atlantic Champion will re- place the chartered vessel Gadus

Atlantica and is expected to go into service as a research vessel in the fall. The 207-ft. (63-m) trawler is being modified and re-equipped at

Marystown Shipyard Ltd. in

Marystown, Newfoundland. After the $29-million modification, the vessel is expected to have a useful service life of 25 years. The vessel will be used to undertake enhanced studies of the state of the northern cod and other groundfish stocks.

August, 1994

OSI Expands North

Amerian Dealer Network

Offshore Systems International (OSI), a leader in Precise Electronic

Marine Navigation Systems, an- nounced the establishment of an extensive dealer network through- out N. America and Hawaii. The network will reportedly allow the company to serve the maritime com- munity more effectively and will increase the company's market pen- etration. The following organiza- tions were tapped by OSI: • Pacific Region: Navatek Electron- ics, Honolulu • Pacific Region & East Coast Re- gion: Radar Services, Los Angeles,

Portland & Ft. Lauderdale • Pacific Coast:Brian Woolf &

Assoc., Walnut Creek, Calif. • Pacific Region & Atlantic Region:

Raytheon Services Co., San Fran- cisco (Maryland, Virginia, N.J.) • Gulf Coast: F.L. Radio, Metairie,

La. • Gulf Coast: G.S. Industries,

Pasadena, Texas • Atlantic Coast: Seacoast Electron- ics, Jacksonville, Fla.

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