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Seaway Plans Public

Meetings On Seaway

Tolls, Restructuring

The Saint Lawrence Seaway De- velopment Corporation is hosting a series of five public meetings in

March and April to obtain citizen and industry comments on the re- cent proposal for a second consecu- tive Seaway toll freeze in 1995, and on the waterway's future — espe- cially concerning consideration for the elimination of all Seaway tolls and proposed restructuring of the

Corporation. The only remaining public meeeting is to be held in

Ogdensburg, N.Y. on Wednesday,

April 26, from 9:30 a.m. to noon. The meeting will be held at the

Ogdensburg Bridge & Port Author- ity, Bridge Plaza — Board Room.

Anyone wishing to make a formal presentation is requested to notify the Corporation at least ten days prior and provide approximate time desired for the presentation to:

Marc C. Owen, Chief Counsel,

Saint Lawrence Seaway Develop- ment Corporation, P.O. Box 44090,

Washington, D.C. 20026-4090.

In addition, the Corporation re- quests an original written text of any formal presentation along with five copies before, at, or within 10 working days after the time of the meeting. to ULSTEIN

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Missouri Casino Operation

Joint Effort By Players And

Harrahs

Players International, Inc. and

Harrah's, the casino entertainment division of Promus, announced that a preliminary agreement to jointly develop a casino entertainment com- plex in the St. Louis suburb of Mary- land Heights, Md. Both companies will abandon plans for separate

Maryland Heights operations in fa- vor of the joint effort.

Under the terms of the agree- ment, each company will develop and operate its own riverboat casino and the two companies will jointly develop a 300,000-sq.-ft. shoreside docking and ticketing facility. The companies have yet to announce the location of the facility. Subject to necessary approvals, construction is targeted to begin in late spring, and to be completed in the spring of 1996.

PPI Receives Pilings Orders

Plastic Pilings, Inc. (PPI) of Cali- fornia completed sales of pilings to the U.S. Navy, the Port of San Fran- cisco and the Washington State

Ferry System. The U.S. Navy in

Seattle is using PPI's pilings as fender piles for its fuel pier modifi- cation project. The Port of San

Francisco will use the pilings as part of an upgrade for the Pier 35 fender system. The Washington

State Ferry System will use the pilings to remodel its terminal in

Edmonds, Wash. PPI says it is the original developer of composite plas- tic and steel pilings manufactured with recycled plastic, and has been providing pilings for the marine in- dustry since 1986.

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M.V. Federal Baffin

Completed By Daewoo

The Fednav Group of Companies,

Canada's largest ocean shipping enterprise, announced the comple- tion and delivery of the M.V. Fed- eral Baffin. The vessel, built by

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy

Machinery Ltd., was christened at the Okpo Shipyards, Pusan, Korea, by Mrs. Lorna Murphy, wife of

John Murphy, general manager of transportation for Cominco Ltd.

This ice-class vessel of 43,700 dwt, in addition to being an all-purpose handymax ship, represents special- ized new technology and is the larg- est high ice-class bulk carrier built for commercial trading in the Cana- dian Arctic. This ship, together with her sister vessel, Federal

Franklin, which has already been delivered to owners, will perform long-term contracts for Cominco carrying lead and zinc concentrates from the Canadian Arctic to over- seas destinations. The Federal

Baffin is the second in a series of eight newbuilding vessels currently on order for Fednav in Korea and

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