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Continuous Barge Unloader Offered

By Timstar

Hmstor Barge Unloader Model SB-750 is shown mounted on pylons.

Timstar's bucket chain technology for contin- uous ship unloaders is now available for barge unloading. This high-speed chain technology reportedly allows inexpensive equipment that is small in size.

The Timstar Barge Unloader Model SB-750 reportedly handles 750 tons per hour in free- flowing, abrasive cargo of any density. It is available in either a fixed or gantry design and mounts on pylons or floating barges.

Each Timstar unit is custom-built to meet customer needs.

The Timstar Barge Unloader reportedly offers flexibility in capacity and mobility, and addi- tional units may be added to increase capacity.

Timstar also offers self-unloaders, ocean-going barge unloaders and Panamax ship unloaders.

For more information on Timstar

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Bay Fabrication Renovates Ferry

Grand Isle

Bay Fabrication, Inc. of Panama City, Fla. has delivered the double-ended ferry Grand

Isle to Lake Champlain Transportation Co.

Inc. of Burlington, Vt., after an extensive refurbishment program which included the addition of a 38.6 ft. (11.7 m) midbody section.

Grand Isle was built in 1953 at Tampa Marine

Co. with overall dimensions of 137.6 x 43 x 11.6 ft. (42 x 13.1 x 3.5 m), and has operated throughout the years on Lake Champlain, operating year-round, or at least until the ice became too thick for operation.

Due partly to Grand Isle's age and Lake

Champlain's Transportation Co.'s purchase of three new and larger vessels over the past few years, the operating time of Grand Isle has been substantially reduced. The owners had to make a decision whether to sell or refurbish the vessel to modern standards. After opting for revamping, Bay Fabrication was chosen for the work.The 176 x 43 x 11.6 (53.6 x 13.1 x 3.5 m) modified Grand Isle can now accommodate five semi-tractor units in addition to several smaller trucks, or 40 automobiles with no trucks. Passenger capacity has been raised from 130 to 200. Design work for the vessel's modernization was provided by John W.

Gilbert Associates, Inc. of Boston.

For more information on Bay Fabrication

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Elf Floating Production Unit Ready To

Leave For Nkossa Field

French petroleum company Elf Aquitaine's 721-ft. (219.7-m) floating production unit left the port of Fos-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast of France on March 16 for a voyage of approximately six weeks, to its Nkossa oil field. Located 37 miles off the coast of Congo,

West Africa, Nkossa is reportedly the deepest offshore development yet undertaken in the

Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, the largest oper- ated by Elf Congo, and one of the most impor- tant carried out by Elf Aquitaine.

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