Paceco, Inc. Receives O p t i o n A w a r d From N a vy

Paceco, Inc. a subsidiary of Fruehauf Corporation, has received a $9.7-million option award from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Davisville, R.I. With this contract, the Navy is exercising all of its options under a prime contract recently awarded to Paceco in the amount of $20.3 million.

Items to be delivered for the option award include three side-loadable warping tugs; eight causeway sections, powered (CSP); and eight causeway sections, now-powered (CSNP), intermediate.

The manufacturing required will be completed at Paceco's 100-acre complex located on the Harrison County Industrial Seaway in Gulfport, Miss. The completed products will then be shipped by barge from the plant.

In addition to being one of the world's leading designers and manufacturers of container handling equipment, Paceco is one of the South's leading manufacturers of custom-designed heavy machinery and has recently become recognized as a competitive supplier of defense and space-related hardware.

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