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McDermott Completes First Year In Mexice

It has been one year (March 10, 1995) since McDermott took over the shipbuilding/repairing facility

Talleres Navales del Golfo (TNG) in Veracruz, Mexico. Since then, the management team, headed by

Paul Albert, has concentrated on refurbishing the yard — for which approximately $12 million has already been invested — for the ship repair (70 percent) and the offshore (30 percent) industries.

Both docks, the larger with an 80,000 dwt capacity, have been used solely in the ship repair industry while McDermott looks for suitable newbuilding contracts.

It is expected that such contracts will be placed by this summer, at which time the yard will commence the building of a Panamax-sized floating dock, the design of which has been supplied by Crandell

Industries.

GEMS Closed Loading Liquid Level Indicators

The Tank's Full!

Nationwide sales and service to the marine industry for 40 years!

GEMS closed loading overfill protection systems are ABS certified and designed to meet title 46, subparts 39-20-3,7,9 of the U.S.

Coast Guard Final Rule governing Marine Vapor Emission

Control Systems.

I Expanded line of electrical or non-electrical indicators, and remote alarms.

I Satisfy Coast Guard regulation for "Tank Barge" and "Tank Ship

Liquid Overflow Protection." ABS Certified.

I Tank contents including vapors completely sealed from atmosphere.

I Stainless steel construction.

I DIPSTICKS™ visible to over 100 feet.

I Self Checking Level Switches feature high level and overfill alarm points.

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LINE-BLIND VALVES

A unique concept in !ine-blinding that eliminates spreading pipe/blind flanges

Just one screw releases or seals the spectacle plate. No reaching around pipes. No binding. No jacking the line. The cams do all the work. • Low initial cost • Safe one-man operation • Positive shut-off • Seal unaffected by piping misalignment • Simple, one man, spectacle changing • Various materials available. • Sizes 1 inch and up, Flanged or BWE

Write for new Bulletin CS-992

FETTEROLF

CORPORATION

P.O. Box 103, Skippack, PA 19474 (610) 584-1500 • Fax: (610) 584-5904

The recent North American Free

Trade Association (NAFTA) agree- ment allows the yard to bid for

Jones Act ships from the U.S. at a reduced rate of import duty; the import duty is to disappear by 1998. Workhour rates and steel prices at the yard are more in line with levels Singapore.

Since the yard opened last year, 28 ships have been drydocked, mainly for repair work. This list has included two ships from

Houston-based tanker owner

Coastal Corp., the 51,313 dwt

Coastal Corpus Christi and the 39,357 dwt Coastal New York, which are operated by Coscol

Marine Corp., and the 65,402-dwt

Bahamas self-unloading limestone carrier W.H. Blount, owned by

Bulica Shipping Co. of Pasadena,

Calif., and managed by Barber

Ship Management.

Currently in the yard are two for- mer Russian super-Atlantik class trawlers, which are being convert- ed to fish processing ships for

Ocean Resources Management,

Seattle. Undergoing general repair work were two Mexican- owned offshore supply vessels Don

Henrique II and Don Rodrigeuz II, products carrier Navado and

Navimin's 23,420-dwt, Mexican- registered sulfur carrier Otapan (alongside repairs). Also under repair is jack-up rig Jalapa.

Another visitor to the yard was the 38,200-dwt Bahamian self-unload- ing bulk carrier Atlantic Erie, which is owned by CSL

International, and is due in the yard for 29 days of steel renewal and general repairs.

Marine Electronics To Rep

For Five Companies

Florida-based Marine Electronics

Solutions, Inc., has been named the manufacturer's representative in the Southeast and Gulf Coast regions for Transas Marine,

Marisys, Inc., Mitel-Marine

Adaptive Systems, Norselight/

Kockum Sonics, and Sunair

Communications. Transas manu- factures user-friendly electronic charting systems. Marisys, Inc. manufactures fully ruggedized, waterproof Mil-Spec, Pentium computers, designed with internal screens which can be adjusted for lighting conditions and require- ments. Mitel-Marine Adaptive

Systems specializes in commercial and fully ruggedized marine main- frame dial telephone systems for applications with requirements for 20 to more than 500 telephone extensions. Norselight/Kockum

Sonics supplies marine lighting and alarms.

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Operating handwheel

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Cam-Set

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