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Crowley Marine Receives

Tug Delivery

Crowley Marine Services, Inc. (CMS) has made a $5.4 million in- vestment, taking delivery of two 86-ft. (26.2-m) shallow-draft tugs newly built for coastal and river operations in its western Alaska services. The tugs will provide the power for combination deck cargo/ oil barges serving coastal villages and other remote sites in western

Alaska.

McDermott Shipyard, in Morgan,

La., constructed the tugs, which are powered by Caterpillar 3412 engines generating 1,250 maximum continu- ous brake hp. The tugs, to be named

Siku and Sinuk, will be christened in Seattle in April.

For more information on

Crowley Marine Services, Inc.

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Schuyler Rubber Co.

Awarded Contract

Schuyler Rubber Co. has been awarded a contract to provide the complete shipset of fenders for a 100-ft. (30.4 m) tractor tug being constructed by Atlantic Marine for shipowner Hvide Marine of Ft. Lau- derdale, Fla. Schuyler model SR3D type fenders were chosen for the

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Group. The SR3D fenders are being specified on other tug and barge applications this year.

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Zidell Launches Barge

Zidell Marine Corporation (ZMC) recently launched an ocean deck cargo barge, theZB286. The vessel measures 285 ft. (86.8 m) by 78 ft. (23.7 m). The launching was dedi- cated to Vice President Jack Zidell, for 42 years of service. The barge will become part of ZMC's fleet of leased barges.

Canadian Exporter To

Develop $40 M Facility

At Port Of Portland

Canpotex Limited, a Canadian potash export association, has an- nounced plans to develop a $40 mil- lion mineral bulk facility on a 60- acre site at the Port of Portland.

Beginning in late 1996, the facility will intially export one million tons of potash, a fertilizer, to markets in

Asia, Latin America and South

America. It is estimated that the operation will generate up to 100 jobs within a few years of its start- up.

The Port of Portland has also announced a project to expand rail | capacity for shippers in the area.

Surveys Reflect Positive

Trend In Intermodal Service

The Intermodal Association of

North America (IANA) and the Na-| tional Industrial Transportation!

League (NITL) collaborated on spon-| soring a research effort that mea- sured shipper perceptions about intermodal freight transportation. |

The project, the 1994 Intermodal

Index, revealed that 77 percent ofj shippers surveyed use intermodall transportation and that such ser-| vices represent an 18 percent share of the market for freight moving more than 500 miles. The intermodal industry's share of ii ter-city freight moving more thar 500 miles is expected to increase 25 percent by 1997, reported th^

Index.

According to Ed Emmett, presil dent of NITL, "The League and IAN^ will continue to work together issues to meet the informational and transportation service needs of shipj pers."

A coalition, known as the Freighl

Connectors Coalition (FCC), has alsl been formed in order to inform thJ

U.S. House and Senate subcommitf tees of the importance of having system that efficiently connects U.f: port, rail and truck intermodal fa cilities to a national highway sys tem. The American Institute

Merchant Shipping is a member i the coalition. 82

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