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Seacor To Acquire

Galaxie Marine

Seacor Holdings Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire substantially all of the assets (excluding real estate) of Galaxie Marine Service Inc. and affiliated companies for approximate- ly $21 million, subject to adjustment for inventory and other assets.

Galaxie, based in Patterson, La., owns a fleet of 24 offshore vessels dedicated to serving the oil and gas industry in the U.S. Gulf Coast. The fleet includes an offshore supply vessel built in 1982, a mini supply vessel built in 1991, 17 utility boats and five crew boats. Seacor will also reimburse

Galaxie for progress payments and assume its contract for a 220-ft. (67- m) offshore supply vessel which is cur- rently being built by Houma

Fabricators. The purchase considera- tion will consist of $18.2 million in cash, to be provided through a combi- nation of borrowings and existing cash balances, and 50,000 shares of

Seacor common stock, which based upon Seacor closing price on Oct. 28, 1996, has a value of $2.8 million. It is anticipated that the transaction will be consummated in January 1997.

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The Port of Le Havre's Terminaux de

Normandie (Normandie Terminal), has two shareholders: Societe Perrigault, a family busi- ness based in Le Havre; and Groupe Sage, a company specializing in para-maritime busi- ness, i.e. freight handling and transit, i

Pictured is an aerial view of La Havre's Normandie Terminal.

Normandie Terminal reportedly employs the largest docker workforce in France, 450 in all, contracted through the Dockers de Normandie subsidiary.

All container transfers in the terminal are con- trolled by a central computer system which sends electronic mission assignments to the straddle loader drivers, who read the mission details on the screen of their onboard computer terminals. The computer system logs each incoming container as an electronic record in a "missions" register. It then assigns free straddle loaders with the most suitable container shift missions, specifying the address of the truck and of the container storage location each time.

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