Maritime Reporter, January, 1991

<BODY> <div> AmClyde Wins Large Crane Contract AmClyde Engineered Products, Inc. recently announced that it has sold two large multipurpose travel- ing gantry cranes to Lambert's Point Docks, Incorporated, a sub- sidiary of Norfolk Southern Corpo- ration, for delivery to Norfolk, Va. The cranes, worth in excess of $8 million, are scheduled for comple- tion in early 1992. Lambert's Point Docks is upgrad- ing its capacity with the AmClyde contract and is firmly establishing itself as a major commodities and container terminal on the eastern U.S. coast. For more information and free lit- erature on AmClyde Engineered Products, Circle 18 on Reader Service Card NO SWEAT Let Thermoid dock hose take a load off your mind. The Thermoid roster includes some of the toughest, finest built, most dependable hose on the market. 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The figures reveal that Li- beria has over- taken Panama as the leading country of reg- istration with 54.7m tons, but this level is still more than 30 per- cent down on Liberia's total of 80.3m. Panama has been pushed into second place with 39.3m tons, followed by Japan (27.1m), the U.S.S.R. (26.7m), Norway (23.4m), the U.S. (21.3m) and Greece (20.5m). Panama's fall and contraction of 8. lm tons in its flag fleet ended a period of strong growth which, despite the turnaround in 1989/ 90, has seen the fleet grow by 62 percent in ten years. Fleets showing the biggest in- crease in 1990 are Norway, in- ns 410 - 405 1980 2000 How the world fleet has fluctuated. eluding Norwegian International Shipping register (NIS), up 7.8m tons, and Liberia, up 6.8m tons. The fortune of the British fleet continues to dive with its 15th consecutive fall in tonnage to 6.7m tons. 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