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Marine, said that the five-day job would prob- ably have taken 10 to 15 days if done off- shore with workboats. "We had this job well planned," he said, "and were able to complete it according to schedule and with no major problems." The Cameron Offshore complex is a one- of-a-kind facility, similar only to a smaller- scale operation in Aberdeen, Scotland. It takes the general store approach to serving the oil industry, and includes over 80 acres on a deepwater channel one mile from the open Gulf. Cameron Offshore supplies marine base packages that serve as support bases for several oil companies. Services include pipe storage and handling, office space, water, fuel and drilling mud, and chemicals. Indus- trial Marine, located within the complex, is a maintenance operation that performs weld- ing, sand-blasting, offshore platform hook- ups, platform rig moves, and general repairs. Bonito Offshore Asks For Title XI Guarantee On Jackup Drilling Rig Bonito Offshore Inc., Houston, has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of one jackup drilling rig. Bonito plans to operate the rig, which will be capable of drilling in up to 250 feet of water, in the Gulf of Mexico. The company listed either Bethlehem Steel, Beaumont, Texas, or Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., as the proposed builder, with delivery for late 1981 or early 1982. saisa TRANSTAINER FOR MTC—Marine Termi- nals Corporation recently accepted delivery on another Paceco rubber-tired Transtainer® crane for its terminal operation at Berth 233, Terminal Island, San Pedro, Calif. Paceco, Inc. of Alameda, Calif, is a subsid- iary of Fruehauf Corporation, Detroit. The 30-ton crane is the third Transtainer deliv- ered to Marine Terminals at the Terminal Island site. The 74-foot-span crane is capa- ble of stacking containers four high and six wide, leaving room for a truck roadway. It is equipped with a Paceco telescopic spreader with hydraulically actuated, side-acting flip- pers, in lieu of fixed corner guides, to handle 20-foot to 40-foot containers. Paceco's Gulf- port, Miss., manufacturing facility fabri- cated the structure, and Paceco's Field Op- erations Department was in charge of erec- tion on site. Calendar Of Coming Events International Symposium on Ocean Engineering & Ship Handling Sept. 17-18 Sponsored and organized by the Swedish Mari- time Research Centre. Park Avenue Hotel, Gothenburg, Sweden. Contact the Gothenburg Convention Bureau, Parkgatan 2, S-41138 Gothenburg, Sweden. Shipboard Energy Conservation '80 Sept. 22-23 Symposium sponsored by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and presented by the New York Metropolitan Section. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. Contact John C. Daidola, c/o M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., 350 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10013; (212) 431- 6900. Ship Operations Symposium Sept. 23-25 Sponsored by the Maritime Association of the Port of New York, and others. Downtown Athletic Club, New York City. Contact the sponsor at 80 Broad Street, 34th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10004; (212) 425-5704. Exhibition & Congress: Ship, Machinery, Marine Technology International Sept. 23-27 Organized by Hamburg Messe and Congress GmbH. Fair Grounds Exhibition Centre, Hamburg, West Germany. Contact the organizers at Tungius- strabe 18, Messehaus Postfach 302360, Hamburg 36, West Germany; telex 0212609. International Oil Pollution Prevention Exhibition & Conference Sept. 23-27 Organized by Hamburg Messe and Congress GmbH. Fair Grounds Exhibition Centre, Hamburg, West Germany. Contact Millard F. Smith, c/o Slickbar, Inc., 250 Pequot Avenue, Southport, Conn. 06490; (203) 255-2601. Marine Technology '80 Oct. 6-8 Conference & Exposition sponsored by the Marine Technology Society. Shoreham Americana Hotel, Washington, D.C. Contact MTS at 1730 M Street, N.W., Suite 412, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 659-3251. AAPA Annual Convention Oct. 19-23 Sponsored by the American Association of Port Authorities. Omni International Hotel, Norfolk, Va. Contact AAPA 1980 Convention Planning Committee, Virginia Port Authority, 1600 Maritime Tower, Norfolk, Va. 23510; (804) 622-1671. MariChem 80 Oct. 21-23 Third International Conference and Exhibition on the Transportation, Handling, and Storage of Bulk Chemicals. Organized by BML Business Meetings Ltd. Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, England. Contact Ronald A.B. Sim, 2 Station Road, Rickmansworth, Herts WD3 1QP, England; telex 924312 Gastech. WGA Annual Convention Oct. 22-24 Ninth annual convention and technical sympo- sium of the Wild Goose Association for profes- sional navigators. Bradford Hotel, Boston, Mass. Contact Bahar Uttam. c/o JACOR, 300 Unicorn Park, Woburn, MA 01801; (617) 933-6805. Dieselcare 80 Oct. 28-29 Second International Conference on Marine Diesel Propulsion. Organized by Intec Press, Ltd., London. New York Hilton Hotel, New York City. Contact M. Randolph Long, Intec Press, Ltd., 310 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017; (212) 697-4893. SNAME Annual Meeting Nov. 13-15 Sponsored by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. New York Hilton Hotel, New York City. Contact SNAME, One World Trade Center, Suite 1369, New York, NY 10048; (212) 432-0310. EUROPORT '80 Nov. 18-22 Exhibition & Conference organized by the Euro- port Group. RAI Halls and Congress Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contact Peter K. Johnson, Europort Inc., 6006 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite 101, Houston, TX 77081; (713) 666-5188. FERROUS HAS , THE PROOF! 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