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Moore McCormack Names

Three To Key Positions

Robert E. O'Brien, president and chief executive officer of

Moore McCormack Lines, Incor- porated, New York, N.Y., recent- ly announced three key appoint- ments of that water transporta- tion subsidiary of Moore McCor- mack Resources, Inc.

Henry W. Born was appointed inward traffic manager, A. Charles

Hidalgo, manager of rates and conferences, and James E. Durick, assistant traffic manager, effec- tive December 1, 1979.

Mr. Born joined Moore McCor- mack in 1938, after attending

New York University. Following a tour of the company's South

American east coast port facil- ities, he returned to the New

York office, and was appointed assistant traffic manager. Mr.

Born will exercise responsibility for all inward traffic matters of the company's services from the east coast of South America,

South and East Africa, and the

Malagasy Republic to the U.S.

Atlantic Coast ports.

Mr. Hidalgo, a veteran of nearly 40 years in the maritime indus- try, joined Moore McCormack in 1940. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in the

Bill of Lading and Traffic De- partments, except for two peri- ods of active duty with the U.S.

Armed Forces.

Prior to his appointment in 1969 as assistant traffic manager of the Robin Line Service from

South and East Africa, he served as assistant traffic manager in the company's American Scantic

Line Service.

Mr. Hidalgo in his new assign- ment will continue to be respon- sible for all matters concerning rates, and represent the company in its conference memberships.

Mr. Durick as assistant traffic manager will help direct the traf- fic activities of the company's

Tidewater Marine's Ramey Tide, a 190-foot, 4,300-horsepower tow- ing supply vessel, has started an 11,000-mile tow from the Houston

Ship Channel to the Seychelles

Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The Ramey Tide is towing the

Wareship II, a former U.S. Navy

LSD converted by Amoco Drill- ing Services Inc., for remote area operations as a mobile supply base. The tow will transit the dis- tance at an average speed of from 7 to 8 knots over a 72-day period, and upon arrival the vessel will support a new drilling program by Amoco Seychelles Petroleum

Company in the Indian Ocean.

The Wareship II contains all of liner services from the east coast of South America and from South and East Africa and the islands in the Indian Ocean.

Mr. Durick brings to his new position a diversified shipping background in marketing-sales, rates and conferences. Prior to joining Moore McCormack Lines, he had been affiliated since 1973 in various traffic posts with the

South African Marine Corpora- tion. He most recently served as inward sales manager. Mr. Durick attended the State University of

New York.

Contract To Todd For $3-Million Navy Overhaul

Todd Shipyards Corporation,

Brooklyn, N.Y., is being awarded a $3,092,842 fixed price contract for drydocking, upgrading elec- tronic equipment and overhaul of the USNS Gen. Hoyt S. Vanden- berg, a government-owned missile range instrumentation ship. The

Navy's Military Sealift Command,

Atlantic, Bayonne, N.J., is the contracting activity. (N62381-80-

B-0002) the materials, tools and supplies required to support a one- or two- well exploratory drilling program.

The Ramey Tide is one of 16 new vessels completed for Tide- water Inc. last year as part of the company's fleet modernization and expansion program. It was built by Avondale Shipyards, Inc. at its New Orleans, La., facility.

The vessel is powered by two

EMD 12-645 E7A diesel engines and has a 40-foot beam, 14-foot draft, and 125,000-gallon fuel ca- pacity.

This year, Tidewater will take delivery of 15 additional vessels costing $31 million.

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Tidewater Marine Tows Mobile Supply Vessel

Eleven Thousand Miles

Amoco's mobile supply base, Wareship II, en route to the Indian Ocean. Tidewater

Marine's Ramey Tide is towing the vessel to the Seychelles Islands. 6 ZIDELL Maritime Reporter/Engineering News