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The Boat Division of Avondale

Industries, New Orleans, La., deliv- ered the Boomtown Belle, ahead of schedule, to Boomtown Westbank.

The 250-ft. by 72-ft. (76-m by 22- m) 19th Century-style riverboat gaming vessel will operate in

Harvey, La.

TheBoomtown Belle has approxi- mately 30,000-sq.-ft. of public area on casino decks and has 1,211 gam- ing positions, utilizing 849 slots and 362 table positions. Avondale's in- house engineering staff designed the vessel. Directions in Design (DID) of St. Louis, Mo. designed the inte- riors.

The Boomtown Belle employs a combination of both propellers and paddlewheel for propulsion.

Avondale Boat Division will de- liver its second gaming vessel this year.

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Boomtown Bollo Equipment List

Main engines Caterpillar

Gensets Caterpilla

Propellers Michigan Wheel

Gears Reintjes

Bowthruster Schottel

Sternthruster Schotte

OMI, Astilleros Espanoles

Sign Letter Of Intent

For Two Tankers

OMI Corp. has entered into a letter of intent with Astilleros

Espanoles, S.A. of Madrid, Spain, for the construction for OMI of two chemical/product tankers of approxi- mately 45,000-dwt. The vessels are to be delivered in mid-1996.

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Astilleros Espanoles

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Sobrena To Convert

Accommodation Platform

For Rasmussen Group

Sobrena, the Brest-based shiprepairer, has won its largest contract ever from the Rasmussen

Group of Kristiansand, Norway for the conversion of the accommoda- tion platform Polycastle.

The platform is scheduled to ar- rive at Brest at the beginning of

November and the contract will take until March 1995 to complete.

Polycastle will be converted to a dynamically-positioned accommoda- tion platform for operation in accor- dance with Norwegian Maritime

Directorate Class 3. In addition, the electrical power is to be increased, two additional thrusters will be added and sponsons will be installed.

Avondale Delivers Boomtown Bollo Port Of Portland To Expand Terminal 6

Portland's container rate growth has reportedly been the fastest among West Coast seaports for three years running.

The Port of Portland Commission approved a program that calls for expansion of the Port's Terminal 6 container complex which will handle an ultimate volume of 300,000 con- tainers (510,000 TEUs).

To reach the full capacity of 300,000 containers per year, the port will need to invest about $60 million in capital improvements over the next 10 years. This investment will extend the three-berth wharf at

Terminal 6 for larger ships, add container cranes and expand the terminal area by 77 acres. As a first phase, staffhas recommended a $25 million construction program to be accomplished in the next three years to meet current and near future capacity requirements, regardless of the specific rate of growth. 43 knots on

Chockfast with 450 passengers and 126 cars

Owner: TIRRENIA di Navigazione, Napoli, Italy

Chockfast installation by FINCANTIERI, Genoa, Italy !TW Philadelphia Resins

P.O. Box 309, Montgomeryville, PA 18936 • Telephone 215.855.8450 Fax 215.855.4688

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