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minables S.A. de C.V., a Mexican corporation. The vessel, built in 1960 in Pascagoula, Miss., will be scrapped in Mexico.

Deepflex Seeks To Change

Registry Of Offshore Unit

Deepflex Production Partners

L.P has asked permission from

MarAd to transfer the 9,956-gt mobile offshore drilling unit FPS

Laffit Pincay to Bahamian reg- istry. The vessel, built in 1976 in

Brownsville, Texas, would be used in mobile offshore drilling.

Weston Asks To Transfer

President Harrison To

Domestic Trade

MarAd has received an applica- tion from Weston Shipping Inc. for temporary written consent to transfer the containership

President Harrison to the domestic trade from June 1 through

November 30, 1996. The vessel was built witb the aid of construc- tion-differential subsidy (CDS).

According to Weston, the vessel will be Jones Act-eligible on

November 30, 1996. In addition,

American President Lines' (APL) bareboat charter will end on July

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Therefore, Weston notes if the request is granted, it will attempt to immediately employ the vessel in the Puerto Rican trade and ter- minate the remaining charter with

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Fishing Vessel Sale

Approved

Fishing Vessel North Wind, Inc. was given approval to sell 469-gt fishing vessel Egabrag III to Ilyon

Investment, Ltd., a Cyprus corpo- ration. Built in 1964 in New

Orleans, the vessel will ultimately be transferred to Russian registry.

Lykes Ok'd To Start

Subsidized Voyage

MarAd and the Maritime

Subsidy Board have approved a request from Lykes Bros.

Steamship Co. to commence its ini- tial subsidized voyage of the

Pacific class vessel President

Garfield (to be renamed Stella

Lykes) in Fujayrah, United Arab

Emirates, upon re-delivery follow- ing a bareboat charter to American

President Lines (APL).

In addition, APL has been given permission to terminate the ves- sel's final chartered voyage in the same foreign port.

Currently, the vessel is operating on a foreign-to-foreign feeder ser- vice between Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Fujayrah. The board noted that Lykes is required to enroll its

Pacific class vessels in the Sealift

Readiness Program in order to be eligible for operating-differential subsidy.

Carbrillo Offshore Seeks

Sale Of Drilling Barge

The Maritime Administration has received a request from

Carbrillo Offshore Ltd.,

Partnership of San Francisco, to sell drilling barge Bonitor II.

The proposed purchaser is EEM

Brooklyn Shipping Ltd., of

Kingstown, St. Vincent & The

Grenadines.

The 4,580-gt barge was built in 1983 in Pascagoula, Miss.

If approved, the barge would be used as a jack-up drilling rig.

Western Overseas Seeks To

Sell Container Carrier

MarAd received a request from

Western Overseas, Inc. to sell 17,802-dwt container carrier S-L

Shining Star to Ruby Enterprises

Inc. of the British Virgins Islands.

The vessel would be resold to

Gujarat Ship Trading Corporation of India.

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