COINSECO ALFA hits the water at Bel-Air shipyards as she ts received by her Mexican

owners. (Terry Peters photo)

$10m. ship launched
at N. Van's Bel-Air

THE FIRST ship
ever built in Canada
for Mexican owners,
the $10 mullion
Coinseco Alfa, was
launched from Bel-
Air shipyards” in
North WVWancouver
Saturday.

The 1,200 ton tuna purse
seiner will be followed in
approximately four months
by a sister vessel Coimseco
Beta, also being built at
Bel Air

Guests of honor at Satur
day's launching were Mex
Fisheries Muinister
Fernando Rafful andeMrs

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launching.

The 215 ft
represents about
manhours of = direct
shipyard labor. While the
main propulsion machinery
was manufactured in Ger-
many, most machinery and
equipment 1s Canadian, n-
cluding a large percentage
of BC products

ship
150,000

Coimseco Alfa was
designed by Vancouver
naval architects Cleaver

and Walkingshaw Limited
Many guests from Mex
wo attended the launc hing
ceremony. inctuding Efren
Baca chairman of

the shipowning

Cenos

company

Atunero Coinseco S.A. de
C.V. and Lic. Alfonso
Cebreros. Director
General of Banco Nacional
Pesquero Y Portuano, the
National Fishing Bank of
Mexico which has financed
the two ship program.

The Mexican Am.-
bassador to Canada,
Agustin Barnos Gomez

and the Mexican Consul in
Vancouver, Renato
Inmgoyen, were also in at

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