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Built By Jeffboat, Inc., The Gemini Will Transfer

Bulk Materials To Ships In New Orleans Area

Equipped with twin cranes, the fully automated Gemini features 12 separate modes of transfer operations.

Jeffboat, Inc., Jeffersonville, Ind. 47130, has announced the com- pletion of hull construction and equipment installation on the

Gemini—one of the world's larg- est floating bulk material transfer plants.

Owned and operated by Mid-

Stream Transfer, Inc. of Metairie,

La., the Gemini will work in the

New Orleans, La., area transfer- ring grains and other bulk mate- rials from barges to oceangoing vessels.

The Gemini, with twin cranes, will have a rated capacity of 1,000 tons per hour, more than twice the capacity of other transfer ves- sels in the busy New Orleans ex- porting waterfront.

The fully automated vessel fea- tures 12 separate modes of trans- fer operations, all controlled by an operator in a control cab 80 feet above the deck. Two conveyor sys- tems, rising to a height of 140 feet above the deck, employ a spill-free transfer technique, with elevating legs and loading boom conveyor totally enclosed and dust-tight.

The Gemini is equipped with complete dust collectors, an auto- matic bulk weighing system, and diesel-driven electric generators providing 2,115 kilowatts.

Chevron Shipping Elects

William Banks President

William H. Banks

William H. Banks, vice presi- dent and general manager-opera- tions, Chevron Shipping Company,

San Francisco, Calif. 94105, has been elected president, effective

August 1. He replaces Lawrence

C. Ford, who is retiring after 40 years of service.

Chevron Shipping Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil Com- pany of California, directs and manages tanker, barge and re- lated shipping activities of Stand- ard's U.S. and international fleets in worldwide oil transport oper- ations.

Mr. Banks will be replaced by

Douglas C. Wolcott, currently manager, Traffic Division. The new manager, Traffic Division, will be Charles A. Jordan.

Mr. Banks is a native of Lou- isiana and a graduate of the Uni- versity of Arkansas. He served in

World War II, leaving the U.S.

Army Air Corps in 1946 as a lieutenant colonel.

He joined the Standard orga- nization in Los Angeles in 1947 as a Marketing Department engi- neer. The following year, he was assigned to pipeline operations.

Subsequently, he was appointed to a variety of increasingly re- sponsible petroleum supply and distribution and management as- signments.

Mr. Banks was transferred to

Chevron Shipping in 1965, and the following year he was named vice president and general man- ager-operations, a position he held until the present. " / UND8/ZSTAND /(7U BO JLD ofmoR? tmvcrvjzes:' gss®3

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As a method of cleaning and preparing a surface, blast cleaning is unequalled. As a working condition, it is less than ideal ... easily subject to production erosion on the part of the operator. The Clemco Operator

Safety/Comfort System offers a splendid preventive by reducing much of the disagree- able aspects of blasting. MESA/NIOSH approved and fully complying with pertinent

OSHA regulations, the complete system of helmet, air conditioner, air filter and protec- tive clothing gives the worker utmost consideration . . . encouraging positive response.

A good reason to write for our new catalog.

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