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Bethlehem Steel To Close

Maryland Shipyard

Bethlehem Steel Corp. has termi- nated discussions with Baltimore

Shipbuilding and Drydock, LLC, regarding the sale of its BethShip

Sparrows Point Yard in Maryland.

Bethlehem said it will continue to focus its efforts and resources on its steel business, implementing the restructuring plan announced last October, and ending the losses from its underperforming divi- sions, including BethShip. The yard presently has 100 active employees who are performing maintenance-related and other miscellaneous work. Bethlehem will now initiate a sale of the yard's assets.

Global Industries Cuts $102 Million Deal

Dresser Industries, Inc. announced that its Sub Sea

International unit completed the sale of certain assets to Global

Industries, Ltd. for $102 million in :ash.

The transaction will be booked in the third quarter of this year and principal assets included in the sale are construction barges, lift- boats and dive support vessels based in the U.S., Middle East and

Far East.

Hvide Reports Results

Hvide Marine Inc. reported net income before an extraordinary item for the three months ended

June 30, of $5.7 million, or $0.37 per share, compared with net income of $0.10 per share in the year-earlier period. Revenues totaled $46.3 million, more than double last year's $21.5 million. "We expanded our reach not only in the Gulf of Mexico but also internationally with the acquisi- tion in late May of the offshore fleet of Gulf Marine Maintenance and Offshore Service Company (GMMOS), the largest indepen- dent operator of offshore energy support vessels in the Arabian

Gulf. Day rates in the Middle East have a ways to go compared to the rest of the world, and we see this as a strong growth opportunity,"

September, 1997 said CEO J. Erik Hvide.

Avondale Reports Q2

Results

Avondale's second quarter results registered a 24 percent increase in income before taxes to $10.4 million, versus $8.4 million a year ago. Net income for the quar- ter was $6.4 million, or $0.44 per share. This compares with last year's $14.3 million, or $0.99 per share. "The increase in income before income taxes for the second quar- ter follows a similar positive per- formance in the first period," said

CEO A1 Bossier, Jr. "This favor- able trend directly reflects the con- siderable investments we have made in capital and new manufac- turing systems to increase the company's productivity and effi- ciency."

He said the yard's backlog stands

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Service and Lower Rebuild Costs.

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