MSC Awards Contracts
Totaling $154.2 Million
Following competitive procure-
ment, the Navy's Military Sealift
Command has awarded six firm-
fixed price contracts for the trans-
portation of Department of Defense
cargo.
—$55,093,944 to Central Gulf
Lines, Incorporated of New Orleans,
La., for the charter of two U.S.-flag
dry cargo ships, MV Green Wave
($25,074,939) and SS Rover
($30,019,005). MV Green Wave will
continue to resupply Greenland and
the Antarctic, and SS Rover will be
assigned to the ammunition run
from Sunny Point, N.C., to Nor-
denham, Germany for the resupply
of Europe.
—$36,839,640.50 to Vessel Chart-
ers, Incorporated of New York,
N.Y., for the charter of two U.S.-flag
dry cargo ships, SS Santa Adela
($18,294,789.50) and SS Santa Jua-
na ($18,544,851). SS Santa Adela
will continue to operate from the
U.S. West Coast to mid-Pacific Is-
lands and Far East ports supporting
all branches of the Armed Forces.
Itineraries include Midway and
Wake Islands and other areas where
there is little or no commercial ser-
vice. SS Santa Juana will be as-
signed the shuttle run between Sub-
ic Bay, R.P., and Diego Garcia,
Indian Ocean. This service has been
continuous since 1981 and is used to
transport containers and breakbulk
cargo for the U.S. Navy.
—$33,197,249 to American Au-
tomar, Incorporated of Washington,
D.C., for the charter of SS LASH
Pacifico, a U.S.-flag dry cargo ship.
The SS LASH Pacific will function
as part of the U.S. Navy's Afloat
Prepositioning Force. As such, this
ship will be used for the preposition-
ing, transportation, and safe stow-
age of essential war materials that
will be used by U.S. forces deployed
to forward sites in a contingency.
—$29,119,571 to Maersk Line,
Limited of Madison, N.J., for the
charter of MV Elisabeth Maersk, a
U.S.-flag dry cargo ship which will
operate from the U.S. West Coast
and resupply the Pacific Islands and
Far East ports.
1,000th Golar Marine
Incinerator To Be Installed
—Literature Available
A significant milestone will be
reached for Golar Metal, Inc., when
Pennsylvania Shipbuilding installs
the Golar GS500 Marine Incinerator
aboard the second T-AO-187 Class
Fleet Oiler, the Benjamin Isherwood
(T-AO-191), which is under con-
struction at the yard. The installa-
tion will mark the 1,000th delivery
of a Golar marine incinerator.
In addition, the GS500 Incinera-
tor, which has been specified for the
entire T-AO-187 Class, is being in-
stalled aboard six Canadian patrol
frigates, the first of which is nearing
completion at Saint Johns Ship-
building Ltd., New Brunswick, Can-
ada.
On December 31, 1988, new regu-
lations (Annex V to Marpol 73/78)
will become effective international-
ly, which will concern the disposal of
solid waste at sea and restrict the
areas where certain wastes can be
disposed, especially plastics. The
new regulations have increased in-
quiries concerning Golar incinera-
tors, since the units are designed to
be easily retrofitted to existing
ships.
For free literature detailing 0 lar
Metal marine incinerators,
Circle 99 on Reader Service Card
Bart Walsh Receives
ASTM John Haas
Memorial Award
Bart Walsh, Deputy Director,
Operations Division, Naval Sea Sys-
tems Command, Washington, D.C.,
is a recipient of the American Socie-
ty for Testing and Materials
(ASTM) John Haas Memorial
Award.
Mr. Walsh received the award at
ceremonies in Bal Harbour, Fla.,
hosted by Committee F-25 on Ship-
building (one of 140 ASTM techni-
cal committees).
Mr. Walsh has been active in
ASTM since 1978 and served as
chairman of Subcommittee F25.ll
on Machinery for eight years. He is
currently third vice-chairman of the
committee.
Organized in 1898, ASTM is one
of the largest voluntary standards
development systems in the world.
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