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IHI Awarded Contract

To Build Two VLCCs

For Kuwait Government

Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries

Company, Ltd. (IHI), Japan, has received an order for two 290,300-dwt tankers from the

Kuwait Oil Tanker Company S.A.K., a Gov- ernment-owned enterprise in Kuwait.

The formal contract was signed in Kuwait recently by Faisal T. Al.Ghanim, president of Kuwait Oil Tanker, and Hirotaro Nemoto, managing director of IHI. The price for the two very large crude carriers is approxi- mately 34,000 million yen (about $155 mil- lion) payable in cash on a yen basis.

Each of the two tankers will be 336 me- ters in overall length, with a beam of 60 meters, depth of 29.5 meters, and maximum draft of 20.62 meters (1,102 x 197 x 97 x 68 feet). Main propulsion machinery will be a single IHI/Sulzer 10RLA90 type diesel with an output of 34,000 bhp, giving a service speed of 14.4 knots.

To be constructed at IHI's Kure Shipyard, the two ships will be delivered in December 1982 and April 1983, respectively.

Gillen's Names Three

To New Executive Posts

Henry Gillen's Sons Lighterage, Inc., a leading New York-based towing and lighter- age firm, recently announced three new ex- ecutive appointments. The announcement was made by Alice A. Gillen, treasurer and comptroller of the company.

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John P. Marshall William J. Lombardi

John P. Marshall, formerly vice president and operations manager, has been elected president; Ann C. Gillen has been named vice president/secretary; and William J.

Lombardi has been appointed general man- ager of operations.

Mr. Marshall joined Gillen Lighterage in 1961 after a career in the U.S. Navy. He served aboard company tugs before moving shoreside, where he advanced through the management positions of port engineer and port superintendent to the position of vice president and operations manager before his recent election to president.

Founded in 1865, the Gillen organization currently operates 11 vessels, including tug- boats, barges, floating cranes, and a derrick lighter. It engages in towing, barging, and lighterage operations in the New York and surrounding areas, as well as coastal towing along the Northeast Coast. Companies in- cluded in the Gillen group are Henry Gillen's

Sons Lighterage, Inc., Nassau Towing Corpo- ration, and Dailey Lighterage Company, Inc.

Raymond To Join In

Building $30-Million

Yard In Malaysia

Raymond International Inc. of Houston recently announced that a subsidiary has signed a memorandum of understanding to participate in the building of a $30-million fabricating yard in Malaysia.

Henry F. LeMieux, chairman and chief executive officer, said the agreement was between its wholly owned subsidiary, Ray- mond Offshore Constructors of Delaware;

Sabah Shipbuilding and Repairing and En- gineering Sdn. Bhd.; and Permodalan Bumi- putra Sabah. As agents for the Malaysian

Government, Sabah Shipbuilding and Permo- dalan Bumiputra will have a minimum of 51 percent equity ownership in the joint venture.

The fabricating yard will be constructed off the coast of Sabah (formerly North

Borneo) on the Labuan Island. About 300 persons will be employed at the yard when it becomes fully operational. The complex will have the ability to fabricate offshore platforms and rigs, and will include facilities that could provide marine engineering and construction services throughout Southeast

Asia.

The project is scheduled to begin at the conclusion of further economic confirmation studies, probably early in 1981.

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