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Bender Delivers Patrol Boat

To Colombia

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair

Co., Inc. of Mobile, Ala. delivered the second 116-ft. (35-m) patrol boat to the Colombian Navy's Coast

Guard.

The A.R.C. Jose Maria Garcia De

Toledo began its drug enforcement mission in Colombia in July.

The Jose Maria Garcia de Toledo and its sistership, the A.R.C. Juan

Nepomuceno Eslava are the first vessels built for Colombia's Coast

Guard, a new branch of the Colom- bian Navy.

The two patrol boats will be used for drug detection and enforcement, search and rescue missions and fish- eries control within Colombia's Eco- nomic Exclusion Zone.

The vessels have a maximum speed of 28 knots and a maximum displacement of 131 tons.

Powered by two MTU marine die- sel engines each, the boats have an endurance of more than 2,000 nau- tical miles.

The patrol boats are each armed with a 25 mm cannon on the bow and two 50 caliber machine guns on the flying bridge.

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Zodiac Hurricane Delivers

Whale Watching Boat To

S.C. Customer

Zodiac Hurricane Technologies

Inc., a builder of rigid hull inflat- able boats and a wholly-owned sub- sidiary of Zodiac International in

France, delivered a specially-built 24-ft. (7-m) whale watching boat to a client in Hilton Heads, S.C.

Based on the successful 733 hull currently in service with the U.S.,

Canadian and Australian Navies, ,his Zodiac Hurricane carries U.S. }oast Guard approval as a T boat.

Powered by a single 225-hp OMC mtboard, the Hurricane has seat- rig capacity for 16 passengers plus . helmsman on specially-con- tructed seats.

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Oversized Boat Molds

Grady Marine Construction, Inc.,

Fort Lauderdale-based tug and rge company, delivered two over- led boat molds from Sanford, Fla.

Race Boat Row in North Miami, lese boat molds had to be moved barge because they were too long d wide to be hauled over land by

Lck

The 74-ft. by 18 ft. (22.5-m by 5.5- molds were loaded onto the 100- ;30-m) by 30-ft. (9-m) deck barge lymar 15-E by cranes.

August, 1994

They were then towed by the tug

Pile Express 140 miles from the end of the St. Johns River to Jackson- ville, Fla., then 320 miles south on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway to North Miami.

Grady Marine Construction was contracted by race boat builder Jose

Peralta Enterprises.

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Hitachi Zosen Completes

Containership Shan He

Hitachi Zosen Corp.'s Ariake

Works delivered the containership

MTV Shan He, capable of carrying 3,800 TEU containers, to China

Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO). It is the sistership of the MTV Zhen He and the MV Da He, completed at the Ariake works.

The Shan He is the last ship in the series of the three built for the same owner. The Shan He is the largest type of containership ever delivered by Hitachi Zosen and it is one of the largest vessels that can enter Shanghai harbor and pass through the Panama Canal. Shan

He is 902 ft. (275 m) long, with a breadth of 105 ft. (32 m) and depth of 69 ft.(21 m).

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One small hint: It's in Portland, Oregon.

At over 980' by 185', and with a lift capacity of 87,000 tons, our Dry Dock 4 is hard to miss. In fact, it's the biggest in all of North or South America.

Perfect for today's jumbo cruise ships.

What you can't see from this elevation are the two other dry docks for smaller jobs, the 17 Whirley cranes, the many fresh- water layberths, the skilled ship repair contractors with a work force of over 3,000

Circle 288 on Reade experts, and the general prevailing atti- tude: to treat every ship like she was our own. Which helps explain why we get over 40% of all West Coast commercial jobs.

To find out more about this unique pub- lic/private enterprise call 1-800-547-8411, ext. 3000, toll-free, or FAX (503) 240-3080.

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