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Raytheon Awarded Navy Radar Contract Worth $14 Million Raytheon Company, Equipment Division, Wayland, Mass., is being awarded a $14,309,954 firm-fixed- price letter contract for FY-83 pur- chase of eight AN/SPS49 (V) ra- dars including installation and checkout spares, antennas, on- board repair parts, engineering services, support, technical data and reports. The Naval Sea Sys- tems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. The contract number is (N00023-83-C- 7122). Fleetweather Inc. Forms Ocean Services Subsidiary The owners of Fleetweather, Inc., a weather consulting firm in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., have an- nounced the formation of Fleet- weather Ocean Services, Inc., (F.O.S.I.), a subsidiary of the par- ent company. F.O.S.I.'s principals include the present sole owners of Fleet- weather, Inc., Tore H. Jakobsen and James F. Witt, along with John B. Grady Jr. Mr. Grady has formerly been employed by Oceanroutes, Inc. Fleetweather Ocean Services will provide all offshore forecast, advi- sory and vessel guidance services, with special emphasis on voyage surveillance, performance analy- sis, and consultation related to charter party agreements. All services are offered on a 24- hour, round-the clock basis with meteorologists on duty at all times. For further information, Write 74 on Reader Service Card Soviet Merchant Fleet Now 'Blankets The Globe' The Shipyard Weekly, published by the Shipbuilders Council of America, recently quoted a Wall Street Journal report by staff re- porter Bill Paul on a "worrisome trend" implicit in Russia's expand- ing ocean shipping fleet which now "blankets the globe." His timely article makes these points: "Soviet shipping policy, in con- trast to Western policies, considers every merchant vessel a military ship first and a commercial ship second." "The 'greatest disparity' between U.S. and Soviet 'combat capability' is in their merchant marines." "The Soviets have been on a shipbuilding binge for years, and they are still going strong." "With the Soviet emphasis on hard currency, the Russians can 'pitch their prices 25 percent below whatever (Western) commercial rate is offered.'" "Western ship- owners are convinced that Moscow is influencing Western shipping policy." "A major concern to U.S. planners is the military implica- tions of the big Russian commer- cial fleet." "The Soviets, whose state-owned shipping companies can operate at a loss for long pe- riods, now are capable of destabil- izing shipping rates at will . . ." Mr. Paul reports that the Soviet Union is supporting "proposal by the shipping committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (to) pre- vent most Western shipowners from flying a low-cost flag of conven- ience by requiring the owner to have a majority of his assets in that flag country, which few of them do." Advanced by developing countries which "want to limit de- veloped nations' access to flags of convenience as a means of increas- ing their own participation in world shipping," Russia's motive, Mr. Paul says, is to reduce "low-cost shipping competition." Soviet merchant marine, as of January 1, 1982, numbered 2,449 vessels of 1,000 gross tons and over; U.S. commercial fleet, not in- cluding Great Lakes vessels, to- taled 574. Gross tonnages were 16,542,000 and 13,516,000, respec- tively. Deadweight tonnages were about equal. In containership cat- egory, U.S. outshines U.S.S.R., but in other categories of major ship- ping resources (freighters, tank- ers, roll-on/roll-off vessels and bulk carriers), Russia holds the lead. Ratio of bulk carriers, in particu- lar was 8 to 1 in numbers and 7 to 1 in gross tonnage. 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