Maritime Reporter, August, 1992

<BODY> <div> Zidell Awarded $8 MillionContract For Double-Hulled Barge Zidell Marine Corporation, Port- land, Ore., was recently awarded an $8 million contract, its largest-ever, by Brix Maritime and British Petro- leum (BP) for the construction of a double-hulled petroleum barge. According to Bill Globel, vice president of Zidell, Inc., the 65,000- barrel capacity barge, the first on the West Coast to meet the U.S. Coast Guard's proposed standards for oil tankers under the Oil Pollu- tion Act of 1990, will take over eight months to complete. BP, one of the world's five big- gest oil companies and the largest supplier of marine fuel in the North- west, will use the barge primarily to transport fuel for commercial ma- rine vessels from its refinery in Ferndale, Wash., to its West Coast terminals in Portland, Seattle and Port Angeles, Wash. BP will charter the barge from Brix Maritime of Port- land, who will provide the towing service for the barge. 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Mr. Herre also holds and M.B.A. from Xavier University, Cincinnati. Since 1938, Jeffboat has been a major designer and shipbuilder for barges, towboats and a variety of river and ocean vessels. Jeffboat is a division of American Commercial Marine Service Company, which also operates the Louisiana Dock shipyards in New Orleans and St. Louis. Richard W. Butler Receives ASTM's Haas Award Richard (Rick) W. Butler, su- pervisor of administrative and tech- nical data for Deutsch Metal Com- ponents in Gardena, Calif., is the 1992 recipient of Committee F-25 on Shipbuilding's John H. Haas Memorial Award. The committee is one of 132 such technical committees belonging to the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM). The award, presented to Mr. Butler at the committee's recent meeting in Pitts- burgh, was established in 1986 and is given for formal recognition of an individual's outstanding contribu- tion to the work of the committee. 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