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Maritime Administration News

NEWTARGET: International Fast Ferry Market

The Maritime Administration (MarAd) and Nichols Brothers Boat

Builders, Inc., Freeland, Wash., have entered into a 10-month, cost- shared cooperative agreement in- tended to help U.S. companies cap- ture a commanding share of the international fast ferry market.

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilders,

Somerset, Mass., and International

Catamarans Design (Incat), Sydney,

Australia, are Nichols' partners in the project. The purpose of the project is to specify and enhance

Incat designs for export sources through Nichols and Gladding-

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Hearn production methodologies to reduce costs and produce the particular Incat designs at interna- tional market prices, and to inter- national market prices, and to implement a comprehensive inter- national marketing program for 1995 to sell Incat designs sourced through the two American compa- nies. MarAd, an agency of the U.S.

Department of Transportation, is acting as an agent for the Depart- ment of Defense's Advanced Re- search Project Agency (ARPA). The cooperative agreement, awarded on a competitive basis, is part of

Maritech, a program designed to enhance the competitiveness of

American shipyards.

Participation in the industry-ini- tiated Maritech program is one el- ement of the President's plan to strengthen America's shipbuilding industry and thereby retain the critical shipyard journeyman skills necessary to build future naval com- batants and to help preserve a ship- building mobilization base in the

U.S.

The total value of the agreement is $625,564. The government will contribute funding in the amount of $305,000, and Nichols Brothers

Boat Builders, Inc. and partners are providing the same amount in cash and in-kind services.

Four Shipping Companies

Join SOCP

MarAd has announced that four U.S. shipping companies have joined the Ship

Operations Cooperative Agreement Program (SOCP). The SOCP is an industry/govern- ment partnership formed in 1993 under the leadership of MarAd. The purpose of SOCP is to promote commercially beneficial inno- vations in vessel operations through the iden- tification, development and application of new methods, procedures and technologies.

The objectives are to improve the competi- tiveness, efficiency, productivity, safety and environmental responsiveness of U.S. vessel operations. The newest members are: Bay

Ship Management of Englewood Cliffs, N.J.;

Interocean Ugland Management of Voorhees,

N.J.; MarineTransport Lines of Weehawken,

N.J.;and U.S. Marine Management of Nor- folk, Va.

Removing Obsolete Regs

MarAd has issued a final rule removing obsolete regulations from 46 CFR Parts 201, 206, 246, 253, 275, 276, 285, and 290 as a result of President Clinton's Regulatory

Reinvention Initiative. Regulations and iden- tified obsolete regulations for removal by part, subpart, section or portion of a section are noted above. For additional information, please contactEdmund T. Sommer, Jr., chief,

Division of Regulations and Administrative

Law, Tel: (202) 366-5181. This rule, Docket

No. R-160, becomes effective upon publica- tion in the Federal Register.

MarAd, NOAA, IRS Determine

Rate

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