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NKK New York Appoints

Toshio Isago

New General Manager

Toshio Isago

Toshio Isago has been appointed general manager of the New York office of NKK (Nippon Kokan) succeeding Satoru Suzuki, who has been named assistant to the presi- dent, Tokyo.

NKK is Japan's number two steelmaker and only integrated shipbuilder - steelmaker - fabricator.

The company's fiscal 1969 sales (April 1, 1969 to March 31, 1970) surpassed $1.39 billion.

Mr. Isago has been special assist- ant to the president, Tokyo, since 1969. Prior to that time, he held executive positions in the com- pany's Tokyo sales office, general planning and personnel depart- ments, and in the production plan- ning sections of NKK's Keihin

Steel Works.

Mr. Isago joined the company in 1948, upon graduation from the

University of Tokyo, Faculty of

Law.

Todd-Houston Yard

Lays Keel For

Edison Storage Barge

The keel was laid recently at

Todd Shipyards Corporation (Houston Division) for the fourth of four fuel storage barges being constructed for Consolidated Edi- son Company of New York, Inc.

The 250-foot by 44-foot by 14- foot six-inch single skin fuel stor- age barge will each have a 25,000 barrel capacity of No. 2 fuel oil.

After completion they will be moored at Con-Edison's Gowanus substation in Brooklyn for fueling gas turbine powered generators.

The last two barges are sched- uled for delivery in New York

Harbor next month.

Montreal-Lake Ontario

Section Of Seaway

Shows Cargo Increase

Cargo moving through the Mon- treal-Lake Ontario section of the

St. Lawrence Seaway increased nearly 25 percent in 1970, accord- ing to Secretary of Transportation

John A. Volpe.

Final statistics for the year show that more than 51.1 million tons of goods passed through the sec- tion, an increase of 24.6 percent over the 1969 volume, Mr. Volpe said.

The studies were begun in Oc- tober and are expected to last through the 1970-71 shipping sea- son.

March 15, 1971

OSE Appoints

Gorton To Head

Ocean Dredging, Inc.

Willard Bascom, chairman of

Ocean Science and Engineering,

Inc., Washington, D.C., has an- nounced the appointment of M.S. (Mark) Gorton as general manager of Ocean Dredging, Inc. of Fort

Pierce, Fla.

Mr. Gorton has managed some $25 million of successful dredging jobs in the northwest United

States, Alaska, Kwagalein, and has consulted on various foreign jobs.

He will be responsible for the op- eration of Ocean Dredging's under- water dredge, and of new dredges now being planned. Ocean Dredg- ing, Inc. specializes in beach restoration projects in which new sand is added to eroded beaches from sources offshore beneath rough water.

Mr. Gorton has spent over 20

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Department, Har years in the dredging business as designer, engineer, and operations manager of various dredging and marine construction companies. He is a graduate of the University of

Washington in civil engineering, and a registered professional engi- neer in the state of Washington.

Ocean Science and Engineering,

Inc., is a diversified corporation headquartered in Washington,

D.C., and has facilities in Cali- fornia, Florida and Texas. e're manufacturing behind the ison, New Jersey. So we can al above, "Made in USA," fully rocurement specs, gton's marine pumps will still be in East Orange, New Jersey and ind along with turbines from (, compressors from Holyoke,

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Worthington primarily to give all our marine customers the specialized attention they deserve on a broad line of marine equipment.

At our headquarters in Harrison, New Jersey, we will continue product engineering and application.

Here we are in direct liaison with the Worthington

Marine and Government Sales Department.