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ONLY MARITIME REPORTER GIVES YOUR ADVERTISING THESE POWERFUL SALES BUILDING ADVANTAGES • WORLD'S LARGEST circulation to buying influence readers • LARGEST US circulation to buyers • LARGEST INLAND/OFFSHORE (Shallow draft) circulation to buyers • 100% REQUESTED CIRCULATION in writing ...by each individual reader • MOST CURRENT CIRCULATION MRs total circulation is 100% qualified within (less than) 2 years. • CIRCULATION TO PEOPLE Total Circulation Address Analysis...99.8% addressed to individual people...by name and title. • CURRENT EDITORIAL TWICE each month ...MR publishes latest info FIRST. • BEST READ because it is CURRENT ...weeks ahead of slower monthlies • UNEQUALLED PASS-ALONG READERSHIP 5 readers per single copy...over 200,000 monthly readership • FREE READER SERVICE CARD • EXCLUSIVE FREE LISTING for regular advertisers in Buyers Directory section of al[24 issues for one entire year. • DIRECT MAIL SERVICE • DIRECT RESPONSE CARD MAILINGS MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS MARITIME REPORTER /Engineering News 107 East 31 Street New York. N.Y. 10016 (212) 689-3266 THE ADVERTISING LEADER In 1982, a larger number of advertisers placed more pages of advertising in Maritime Reporter than in the No. 2 magazine. ON THE COVER President Reagan Recommissions the New Jersey PAGE 16 ASNE West Coast Systems Meetings PAGE 12 Brown & Root Receives $30-Million Contract For Zapata Production Platform Design work is in progress on a production platform, a job awarded Brown & Root, Inc. by Zapata Corporation. Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is one of the world's largest en- gineering construction companies. The $30-million contract calls for design, fabrication and instal- lation of an eight-pile, two-deck platform with 18 drilling slots. Brown & Root's Green Bayou marine yard in Houston will fab- ricate the decks and jacket pieces. The platform will be assembled at the company's Port Aransas yard, Harbor Island. The platform will be set in 658 feet of water in East Breaks Block 110 in the Gulf of Mexico. Design engineering began in November and fabrication will start in February 1983. Installa- tion is scheduled for mid-1984. Newport News Awarded $3.1 -Billion Contract For Two Nimitz Aircraft Carriers Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va., has been awarded a $3,143,000,000 fixed- price-incentive-fee contract for the construction of two Nimitz- class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to be designated CVN 72 and CVN 73. These two ships will be the fifth and sixth ships of their class and have delivery schedules of December 1989 and December 1991, respectively. These ships will be built by New- port News Shipbuilding in their North Yard facility utilizing mod- ular construction techniques in conjunction with a crane capable of lifting up to 900 tons. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the con- tracting activity (N00024-83-C- 2033). MARITIME REPORTER and Engineering News Editorial and Executive Offices 107 East 31st Street, New York, N.Y. 10016 (212) 689-3266 ITT Telex: 424768 MARINTI PUBLISHERS John E. O'Malley Charles P. O'Malley VICE PRESIDENT John C. O'Malley EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Charles P. O'Malley EDITOR Edward J. Quigley SENIOR EDITOR Thomas H. Phillips ASSOCIATE EDITOR Kathleen Reagan EDITORIAL COORDINATOR Lilian Irvine TECHNICAL EDITOR L. Parke Adair, BSNA, PE INTERNATIONAL EDITOR Robin F. Burnett, MR1NA, MNI, London, England BUSINESS MANAGER John E. O'Malley ADVERTISING SALES DIRECTOR John C. O'Malley ADVERTISING PRODUCTION MANAGER Katherine St. Onge ART DIRECTOR Ellen Hemmer CIRCULATION MANAGER Susan Rakosi EUROPEAN SALES OFFICES Italy Mr. Vittorio F. Negrone Ediconsult Internazionale Piazza Fontane Marose 3 - 16123 Genova, Italy Telex: 211197EDINT 1 Scandinavia Mr. Stephan R G Orn Ab Stephan R G Orn Box 106, S-271 00 Ystad, Sweden Telex: 33335 ORN S MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS (USPS 016-750) 107 EAST 31st STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. 10016 (212) 689-3266 Telex: MARINTI 424768 ESTABLISHED 1939 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News is published the 1st and 15th of each month by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. Controlled Circulation postage paid at Waterbury, Connecticut 06701. Postmaster send notification (Form 3579) regarding undeliver- able magazines to Maritime Reporter/Engineering News, 107 East 31st Street, New York, N.Y. 10016. Member VBPA Business Publications Audit of Circulation, Inc. No. 2 Volume 45 4 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News