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Moody Offshore Seeks

Title XI For Supply Boat

Costing $2.5 Million

Moody Offshore, Inc., 702

Moody National Bank Tower, Gal- veston, Texas, has applied for a

Title XI guarantee to aid in fi- nancing the M/V Kara Seal, an oceangoing tug supply vessel.

The 2,500-hp vessel was deliv- ered October 18 by Zigler Ship- yards, Jennings, La. The 185-foot tug/supply boat is capable of worldwide operations.

The estimated actual cost of the vessel is $2,515,000. If approved, the Title XI guarantee would cov- er 871 - percent of that amount.

Toronto-U.S. Ferry

Service Subject Of

MarAd Study

Rising fuel costs, highway con- gestion and the growth of trailer traffic across the Niagara River border have created an opening for trans-lake ferry service be- tween Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Rochester, N.Y., according to a recent study commissioned by the U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd).

Examining the feasibility of a trailership operation between the two ports, the report noted that more than 600,000 trailers—about six million tons of cargo—trav- eled the overland route in 1973, and this figure is now approach- ing one million trailers.

The authors of the study, Booz,

Allen and Hamilton Inc. of Beth- esda, Md., found that a significant portion of the current truck traf- fic could use the proposed water- borne service. The cross-lake run would shorten the distance be- tween Toronto and Rochester by 75 miles, allowing the ferry serv- ice to be cost competitive.

Toronto was selected for the purposes of the study because the city is the Canadian terminus for much of the Niagara frontier traffic.

According to Ken Closs, traffic chief for the Toronto Harbour

Commission, "This kind of oper- ation could bring far-reaching fi- nancial benefits for the entire wa- terfront community in terms of cargo-handling charges, customs and packaging services. "In all probability," Mr. Closs added, "it could be a year-round service, since Lake Ontario rarely

Three appointments to key staff positions were recently announced by Morris Guralnick Associates,

Inc. (MGA), prominent San Fran- cisco, Calif., firm of naval archi- tects and marine engineers.

Henry Berk has been appointed chief electrical engineer. Robert

K. Richardson has been appointed senior engineer in the MGA

Structures and Arrangements freezes over during the winter months."

The study considered three ves- sel variations for the trans-lake operation — conventional roll-on/ roll-off craft capable of carrying up to 58 standard 40 or 45-foot trailers, a specially designed barge pushed by a tug (80 trailers), and a towed barge (140 trailers).

The lowest capital commitment corresponded to the ro/ro ship, which also had the lowest weekly capacity. Fixed costs on a per trailer slot basis favored the towed barge. But the integrated tug-barge, with twice daily sail- ings from each port, offered the best service and highest weekly cargo capacity (1,920 trailers).

Section. Jal G. Patell has been appointed chief, Hull Department.

In making the announcement,

Hugh F. Munroe, president and chief executive officer of Morris

Guralnick Associates, Inc., said: "These three men bring to our organization a wealth of training and experience, including a va- riety of theoretical and practical applications of naval architecture.

This expertise is of great impor- tance in this era of moder.n ar- chitectural and engineering meth- ods, when so many projects call for the most highly sophisticated designs and systems possible to- day." MGA is presently providing design and engineering consult- ing services for many important commercial and government proj- ects, including the U.S. Depart- ment of Energy's first Ocean

Thermal Electric Conversion (OTEC) platform.

Before joining the Guralnick organization, Mr. Berk served for 15 years with NL Petroleum

Services, where he attained the position of senior supervisor of the Electrical Design Section. Pri- or to that, he spent 24 years at

Bethlehem Steel Corporation's

San Francisco shipyard, where he served as senior project engineer.

At NL Petroleum Services, Mr.

Berk was closely involved in the electrical designs of offshore oil industry vessels. He also received special training at the Philadel- phia Navy Yard and at Bethle- hem's former shipyard at Quincy,

Mass.

Mr. Richardson followed the completion of his studies at the

University of California with three years' service in the U.S.

Coast Guard, where his duties in- cluded extensive review of oil in- dustry vessel and equipment de- signs with special emphasis on safety, stability, and seaworthi- ness. He attained the rank of lieutenant. Mr. Richardson also served with the architectural and engineering firms of J.J. McMul- len, and Earl and Wright, the latter for 12 years, during which he served as naval architect on offshore oil industry designs, sea- keeping studies, and hydrody- namics.

Mr. Patell, before his appoint- ment to chief, Hull Department for MGA, served four years as a naval architect on the MGA staff. Following graduation from

India's College of Engineering in 1941, he served with Garden

Reach Workshops, Ltd., and Hin- dustan Shipyard of Calcutta, hold- ing the position of chief naval ar- chitect at both facilities. His work included designs on tugboats, fer- ries, dredges, cargo and passen- ger ships, floating docks, and na- val craft. Before joining MGA,

Mr. Patell served six years with

Global Marine, Inc., Los Angeles, as chief of the Naval Architecture

Department, and was involved in the development of new designs of several offshore drilling rigs and a mining ship.

Morris Guralnick Associates,

Inc. is now in its 33rd year of operation. The firm is presently engaged in several long-term projects for the maritime indus- try, the U.S. Navy and other commercial and government cli- ents. In addition to its headquar- ters office in San Francisco, the organization operates branch of- fices in San Diego, Calif., and

Baltimore, Md.

Scheduled repairs

Highly competitive pricing is only one reason to check out the Halifax Shipyards

Take advantage of the Canadian currency exchange situation. Invite our bid on your next scheduled repair, and come on over and see how much you'll get for your money. The Halifax Shipyards can handle vessels to approximately 30,000 dwt.. with two dry docks up to 600' (185 m), and three berths up to 850' (259 m). Water depth at the yard is 30' (9.15 m), 100' (30.5 m

Halifax Harbour is open, ice-free, all year 'round. There's t 200-year tradition of craftsmanship and marine skills here, and we're geared up for service around the clock.

The new management is totally committed to ship repair, both scheduled and emergency, offering quality, speed and efficiency.

Low cost is just an added bonus.

The Halifax Shipyards is owned and operated by

Halifax Industries Limited. General Manager, Boston

Halifax Shipyards: Pieter Nieuwburg.

Halifax mi

New

York

HALIEAX SHIPYARDS

P.O. Box 1477, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canada. B3K 5H7

Telephone: (902) 423-9271 (24 hours)

Telex: 019-23539

Three Appointed To Key Positions

At Morris Guralnick Associates

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