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Fitzgerald To Head

MarAd Title XI Program

The appointment of Edmond

J. Fitzgerald as Director, Office of Ship Financing Guarantees at the Maritime Administration (MarAd) has been announced by

Samuel B. Nemirow, Assistant

Secretary of Commerce for Mar- itime Affairs.

Mr. Fitzgerald will be respon- sible for administering MarAd's

Ship Financing Guarantees Pro- gram. He replaces Gerard E. Neu- mann, who has been appointed to the newly established position of

Deputy Assistant Administrator for Maritime Aids (Finance).

Mr. Fitzgerald has served as

Assistant Division Chief of the

Division of Ship Financing Guar- antees, and most recently as Sen- ior Maritime Aids Specialist and

Special Assistant to the Assistant

Administrator for Maritime Aids.

In 1960, Mr. Fitzgerald joined

MarAd as a Marine Insurance

Examiner Trainee, and was sub- sequently promoted and trans- ferred to the then Division of

Mortgage Insurance Contracts.

He left MarAd in 1966 to accept a position as senior financial an- alyst at Ford Motor Company, be- fore rejoining the Federal Agency in 1971.

Mr. Fitzgerald holds a Bache- lor of Science degree from the

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and a master's degree in business administration from American

University.

Largest Syncrolift installation in the world, in operation at Tandanor, S.A., has a lifting capacity of about 40,000 dwt.

Tandanor, S.A. Installs

World's Largest Shiplift sn )"S Hi.1. ./.7T, ft''•'

Artist's conception of Sun Transport vessel now under construction at Mangone

Shipbuilding Company, Houston, Texas.

Mangone Building New Special Purpose

Tanker For Sun Transport

The largest shiplift in the world recently began operations at the

Tandanor, S.A., shipyard, Rio de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Syncrolift® shiplift platform is 185 meters long by 32 meters wide (about 607 feet by 105 feet), and has a lifting capacity of about 40,000 dwt. Completed only 18 months after construction began, the Tandanor Syncrolift was com- missioned in late 1979.

The Rio de la Plata Shipyard is a state-owned facility which began its activities in 1879. The original yard was a Navy repair facility, and the present company continues this tradition as well as serving commercial vessels.

Because of its prior success in repairing and building ships,

Tandanor several years ago de- cided to expand its docking fa- cility. Tandanor's engineers did an in-depth study of the various available drydocking systems to determine which would give the most efficient, economical opera- tion and meet the unique require- ments of their yard. Due to the lower construction cost, decreased construction period, space avail- ability, possibility of immediate enlargement at low cost and re- duced time of operations, the

Syncrolift system was selected.

The on-shore transfer system permits the yard to handle as many as six full-capacity vessels, or 12 smaller vessels simultane- ously, and still have the Syncro- lift platform free for docking

Naval vessels. The transfer sys- tem has two sections; the larger work berths are for commercial vessels, and the smaller ones, in-

Juan Luis Poggi, president of Tandanor,

S.A., shown at the Syncrolift console activating the shiplift for the first time during initial testing of the new instal- lation. eluding covered work areas, are for repairing and refitting Naval ships.

In the brief time since the new

Syncrolift installation was com- missioned, Tandanor reports it has already generated over a mil- lion dollars in revenue despite the fact that the transfer system is only partially completed.

Tandanor anticipates once the full facility is operating, the in- creased economic effect of the

Syncrolift shiplift and transfer system will be approximately $20,000,000 a year.

Pearlson Engineering Company, a member of the NEI Group of

Miami, Fla., supplied the Syncro- lift equipment and design. There are presently 138 Syncrolift in- stallations in 57 countries, in- cluding 26 which belong to na- tional navies.

Sun Transport, Inc., a division of Sun International, Inc., has contracted with Mangone Ship- building Company for a 245-foot 6-inch (74-meters) vessel de- signed specifically as a Twin

Screw Motor Tank Barge to work in Sun's Northeast coastal oper- ations.

The new vessel is the first such carrier designed for the special purpose of transporting oil prod- ucts in both offshore and inland waters, according to Don L. Go- deau, vice president and general manager of Mangone Shipbuild- ing, Houston, Texas. The vessel will combine offshore/oceangoing capabilities with the small size and maneuverability necessary to navigate inland waterways and canals. It is scheduled for com- pletion in July 1980.

Classed ABS A-l Oil Carrier

Maltese Cross AMS, ACCU, and

USCG, EPA and USPHS certi- fied, the new vessel will have a cargo capacity of approximately 21,549 barrels. Ten tanks segre- gated into three sections will transport grade B oil products.

The vessel will measure 45 feet (13.5 meters) across the beam, with 19-feet 3-inches (5.8-meters) depth, and design draft of 14 feet 6 inches (4.4 meters). Powered by twin EMD 8-645 E7 diesels developing 1,900 total horsepower, it will travel at a service speed of approximately 12 knots. Dead- weight of the ship will be approx- imately 2,750 long tons. It will have accommodations for eight people.

Mr. Godeau said the Sun Trans- port vessel will be equipped with three Goulds diesel-driven deep- well pumps rated at 3,000 bbl hr handling of cargo.

Other equipment will include two 125-kw diesel-driven gener- ators and a 35-kw standby gen- erator. Electronic equipment in- cludes Sperry gyrocompass, Sper- ry autopilot, Loran-C, Fathome- ter, two radar units, ADF, two

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