SED ease emanate SS A NAAR ESR PE PNET, BusINESS SERIES OF SIX IN THE WORKS New Seaspan barge is launched locally THE. NORTH Vancouver champagne send-cff earlier this month of a new Seaspan barge introduced a new series of chip barges to the Seaspan fieet of 150 barges. The all-steel Seaspan 500, designed and constructed at Van- coaver Shipyards, is 200 feet long, 50 feet wide and has a carrying capacity of 2,500 sho: tons. The barge features a stern lift- out panct which allows for front- end loaders to qvickly discharge cargoes of woodchips, sawdust and h The barge, worth more than $1 million, is the first of six Seaspan . barges scheduled to be built during the next year. | mo : The company’s chip barges carry more ‘than 6,000. full cargoes’ a year. A fuil-75 per cent of the fleet is dedicated to the forest industry. Sexspar International Ltd. is the country’s largest. tug and barge compaiiy. From its North Shore headquarters, Seaspan serves all ports on the West Coast, from Mexico to Alaska. eeknre THE CONTROVERSIAL propos- ed new fedrrai sales tax on goods and services will be the subject of an upcoming special conference hosted by the Canadian Bar Association and Cznadian Institute of Chartered Accountants’ joint committee on taxation. The fizst of four 90-minute ses- sions is scheduled to begin Aug. 24 at 8:30 a.m. at the Trade and Convention Centre. The local conference will be the first conference held on the new tax system since the release of the business briefcase Michael Becker federal government's detailed ‘discussion papers: The conference, to be addressed by a variety of industry, associa- tion and federal government repre- sentatives, will examine the pro- posed multi-stage tax system; ex- emptions and exclusions; invoic- ing, collection, refunds and cred- its, remitting, instalments, repor- ting and returns. Interested participants can con- tact the B.C. 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