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Photo shows Marine Industries Northwest Inc.'s new drydock, MINI I, with Western Pioneer freighter Yellowfin docked for a scheduled underwater inspection, tailshafting repairs, and painting. Marine Industries Northwests Newly Acquired Drydock 'MINI V Now Fully Operational Marine Industries Northwest In- corporated (MINI) now has its re- cently acquired 2,800-ton-capacity drydock, MINI I, fully operational at the Tacoma, Wash., shipyard. The reinforced concrete MINI I drydock measures 389 feet long and has a clear width of 57 feet between wingwalls. It features eight high- capacity pumps arranged in four pump rooms, 12 watertight compart- ments for operational flexibility, a pair of traveling wing wall cranes, modern waste collection system, and a control room. The new drydock allows MINI I to accommodate expanded markets such as oil rig vessels, spill response vessels, catcher processors, large tugs, mud boat conversions, and coastwise freighters. Marine Industries Northwest is a full service shipyard serving the Pacific Northwest more than 15 years, specializing in the conver- sion/repair work of barges, tugs, and coastal freighters to ABS and USCG standards. For free literature detailing the facilities and capabilities of MINI, Circle 11 on Reader Service Card Trinity Marine To Build Third LPG Barge For Hollywood Marine Trinity Industries, Inc., subsid- iary, Trinity-Beaumont has been awarded a contract to build a 15,000- barrel-capacity liquid propane gas (LPG) barge for Hollywood Marine, Inc., Houston, Texas. The new barge will be 260 feet long, with a 52.5-foot beam, and 12- foot depth. Construction has begun and delivery is expected in the spring of 1992. The barge's two 7,500-barrel LPG tanks will be provided by Hollywood Marine, which will also perform the final outfitting on the vessel. John Dane III, president of the Trinity Marine Group, which in- cludes Trinity-Beaumont, said this new contract will create a need for about 50 additional shipbuilders at the Beaumont, Texas, shipyard. He added that a recent contract for four 208-foot oil spill recovery ships and Rauma Yards, Hollming To Combine Operations Under New Company Name It was recently disclosed that Finland's Rauma Yards and Hollming have agreed to combine their shipyard operations based in Rauma under a new company name. To win bigger projects through better delivery times and lower costs, the two shipyards will be kept open and will work together. The Finnish Government has agreed to take a 13 percent stake in the company, while Rauma Ltd. will take 47.9 percent and Hollming 39.1 percent. The joint order books of the two soon-to-be refurbished drydock at the Beaumont facility will bring to- tal employment there to about 500. Trinity acquired the closed ship- yard from Bethlehem Steel in June 1989, and reopened it in 1990. Trinity-Beaumont delivered two 15,000-barrel liquid flammable gas barges to Hollywood Marine in Sep- tember and October of 1991. Those barges are 260 feet long, with a 45- foot beam, and 12-foot depth. All six high pressure tanks for the vessels will be provided by Beaird Indus- tries, Inc., Shreveport, La., another Trinity company. The Trinity Marine Group, Gulfport, Miss., is owned by Trinity Industries, Inc., Dallas, Texas. In addition to Trinity-Beaumont, the group includes Gretna Machine & Iron Works, Inc.; Halter Marine, Inc.; Moss Point Marine, Inc.; Equi- table Shipyards, Inc.; Aluminum Boats, Inc.; and HBC Barge, Inc. For free literature detailing the ship construction and repair ser- vices of the Trinity Marine Group, Circle 73 on Reader Service Card yards, worth about $481.9 million, will be transferred to the new com- pany, and net sales are forecast at around $342.5 million for 1992. Included in the current order book are two cruise ships, a multipurpose icebreaker, a missile boat, an inland waterway ferry and various hull and other ship sections. The managing director of Hollming, Aamo Mannonen, said the combining of the two yards would have a positive effect on the new company's ability to compete on price and delivery. The new company, as yet un- named, will also acquire Aquamaster-Rauma Oy and Pipemasters Oy, two subsidiaries owned equally by Rauma and Hollming. South Korean Yards Record Order Book Upturn During Third Quarter Of Year A 12.8 percent increase in its or- der book during the third quarter of the year was recorded by the South Korean shipbuilding industry, con- solidating its position in the second slot worldwide. The number of contracts awarded in the three months to September 30 outweighed vessel deliveries by 890,000 gt, taking the Korean yards' overall workload to 7.85 million gt. The South Korea upturn in busi- ness corresponds closely to the glo- bal increase in newbuilding con- struction. New orders reported to have been received during the quar- ter totaled 5.0 million gt, almost 1.1 million gt in excess of commissionings in the correspond- ing period. Of the total contractual activity, Japan accounted for 15.1 million gt or 37.2 percent, representing a slight reduction in both percentage and January, 1992 tonnage terms. The industry in Ja- pan, which continues to invest heavily in its production facilities with an eye to the requirements of double-hull crude carriers and other types, dominates the tanker sector. In this category, Japanese build- ers hold contracts for 9.6 million gt of the 20.7 million gt worldwide. South Korea's increased competi- tiveness, however, is reflected in the uplift in its oil tanker workload to 4.5 million gt. By far the single largest field of new construction activity is tanker tonnage, representing 51 percent of orders in hand throughout the world. The higher level of bulk ship or- ders was one of the main contribu- tors to the third quarter's increase in business. The aggregate bulker order book grew by 1.1 million gt to 6.6 million gt, or 16.3 percent of the total at the close of September. Its proportional standing three months earlier had been 13.9 percent. The relatively few advances achieved elsewhere were overshad- owed by the surge in South Korea's workload. 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Using only the highest quality materials are part of the reason for Multiflex's long list of satisfied customers, said Brad Jeter, project manager for Multiflex. "Whatever the applica- tion, we specify the highest quality materials available for our custom- ers. Polyamide 11 is an important part of our products, and we don't compromise safety or durability with a lesser thermoplastic." Rilsan Polyamide 11 is produced by ATOCHEM North America, Inc., a $1.5 billion diversified chemicals manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa. The company was formed December 31, 1989, as re- sult of a merger between ATOCHEM, Inc., M&T Chemicals Inc. and Pennwalt Corporation. ATOCHEM North America is an affiliate of ATOCHEM S.A., a $10 billion chemicals manufacturer, which is part of the ELF Group, headquartered in Paris, France. For detailed information on Rilsan Polyamide 11 uses in subsea applications, Circle 51 on Reader Service Card 41
