Maritime Reporter, September, 1994

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FL Adrian Tocklin USP&I 2 Corporate Place South Piscataway. NJ 08854 Please send copies of the USP&I Directory and Profile Name Company. Street City State MR Circle 205 on Reader Service Card ON THE COVER Canadian Offshore Resources Exposition —Preview— PAGE 44 A.S.N.E. Fall Symposium —Naval Ship Maintenance & Modernization/Affordability— PAGE 22 Third International Symposium On Marine Salvage PAGE 16 House Passes $250-Million Shipbuilding Subsidy Authorization Bill The U.S. House of Representa- tives recently passed by voice vote a special subsidy bill (HR-5220) that would authorize the appropriation of $250 million "to protect the na- tional defense shipyards of the United States" by helping to build ships domestically. The legislation would authorize the appropriation of $200 million in "shipyard incentive payments" of not more than 50 percent of the price to construct a commercial vessel in a U.S. yard, to be paid to the shipyard submitting the lowest bid. It would also authorize $50 million to finance the purchase of commercially obsolete vessels by the Secretary of Transportation for inclusion in the National Defense Reserve Fleet. The new ships would be built for the government's account and then either chartered or sold to private operators for operation in U.S. for- eign trade. The bill is subject to Senate pas- sage. Actual appropriation of the money will depend upon passage of a separate spending bill. Gibbs & Cox Firm Awarded $30-Million Navy Contract For Design Agent Services Gibbs & Cox Inc., naval architects and marine engineers of New York City, has been awarded a $30,518,837 cost-plus-fixed-fee Navy contract for class design agent services for the FFG-7 Class guided- missile frigate construction pro- gram. The Naval Sea Systems Com- mand is the contracting activity. 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