December 2, 1981 - North Shore News

I went to the Orient with a headful of vague
notions about the TChing, Zen, and. karma.

A a CONTRACT for what: will
-be the largest commercially
owned™ icebreakers in the
world has ‘been awarded to
Burrard Yarrows Cor-
poration. -

Two Class 4 icebreakers,
which will become part of
Gulf Canada Resources Ltd.
quest for oil in the Beaufort
Sea, will be built in the
Vancouver and Victoria
Shipyards of Burrard
Yarrows.

The contract is worth $79
million, with delivery of the
vessels set for April, 1983.
‘Work will start in April,

1982.

A contract for a $32
million Class 4 supply vessel
was awarded to Vancouver
Shipyards Ltd. as well.

Burrard Yarrows gencral
manager Tom Duncan said
the contract is one of the
biggest contracts the
company has had.

The boats will be 88

metres long, 17.5 metres
beam and 10 metres deep,
and will have 22,000 hor-
scpower engines.

They will cach require 300
man-hours for one year, with
one to be built in the
company’s North Vancouver

and one built in its
Victoria yard.

Work on the new boat will
dovetail with the compliction
of another icebreaker for
Dome Petrolcum, cxplained
Duncan, so it will create
little change in the current
work force at the Vancouver
yard.

Burrard Yarrows scnior
vice-president Don Challinor
said caslicr the contract

" was*going into the«service

and attention I was getting.

Then came: Tokyo™:Air- “_
think

port, which made ;
of Trantor,
galactic capital in the Isaac
Asimov sci-fi books. It is
vast. V-A-S-T.

Do the trains run on time?
To. the second.To say that
Japan is a digital society is to
recognize that the. Japanese
have created a whole new
clip at. which life can be
lived.

And for all the. stereotypes
of look-alike Japanese I half-
expected to see, the degree

of ‘individuality in dress —

announcement will
guarantee jobs for 600
workers at its two divisions
during the construction
period.

About 1,000 shipyard
workers are employed in
each of Burrard Yarrows’
two divisions. Vancouver
Shipyards, currently. em-
ploys about 600.

Gulf Canada Resource’s

the * fictional: .

maybe it’s the range in
choice — is so fantastic that
the folks in- Tokyo are
decked out with even greater
idiosyncrasy than the blokes
in kinky old London itself.
» Comparisons with London
“inevitable
‘are roughly ten hours
flying time from Vancouver.
London does ‘seem to-:be
iking into . chaos, —

very. basic level, it’s as
simple as that.
Obviously, - there are

comparisons to be made
between Europe and Asia, QS
well.

It does seem that history
has come full circle. The
lassitude which once hung
over the East now. seems to
have spread to'the Western
world, -while the Orient
pulsates with energy and

Sea is expected to begin.

either in 1983 or 1984.
The contract fpr a second —
Gulf supply vessel

went to a Japanese yard,
Nippon Kokan K.K., of
Tokyo.

Contracts for the drill igs

were also awarded to a”.

Japanese company.

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‘Tokyo does seem to.be in the
; midst’ ‘of a renaissance. At a

to :
complete its Beaufort fleet |

drive.

newspaper. called The
Nation..Review published .a
survey “which listed:.85 non-
communist countries
terms of their economic
performance si since 1974.

‘Except for oil-rich Arab
countries, .. the “world’s
leading economies, in’ this
order, :. were: .

Singapore, :

Cyprus squeezed in there for
some reason.
By “best” economies, the

survey meant -economies .

that had produced high,
sustained growth with low
inflation,

... breaks .
. examination: Fair.enough? -

While 1 was in. Bangkok, a

- possible to avoid the feeling
that the small dynamic ‘Asian:

. states’ have -

in

Taiwan, .
‘Hong ‘Kong, |

a comfortable .
external sector, ‘and astrong |
currency in the post-OPEC:.-
‘world. In short, an economy

generalization about Asia
down:

Nevertheless, it is ‘im-

somehow
regained: an initiative that
was lost’ centuries ago with

“the arrival of. the Por-

tuguese..
In the
Correspondents’.

Foreign
Club in

Hong Kong, I: overheard . ed

that has licked the energy . t.

economy was ranked as

30th, with Argentina at the -_

bottom of the heap.
Of course, |

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week sojourn through four ..

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