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Administration Announces Disposal Contracts For Three More High-Priority Ships Summer Progress Now Totals Six Obsolete Ships On Track for Removal
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On
August 9, at a press conference at the James River Reserve Fleet in Fort
Eustis, Virginia, Maritime Administrator Captain William G. Schubert announced disposal contracts for three more
ships in the James River Reserve Fleet. With the announcement, 37 ship disposal contracts have been awarded since the
beginning of 2001, and 24 ships have left the James River Reserve Fleet.
So far
this year, contracts have been awarded to Marine Metals for three ships at $3.1 million, and ESCO Marine for three ships at $3.2 million. The contract award leaves approximately 60 ships |
Maritime Administrator William G. Schubert, making the
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