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John Coulahan Elected

President Of Interocean

Shipping Company

The election of John P. Coula- han as president and director of

Interocean Shipping Company, its subsidiaries Venoil and Venpet,

Inc., and Steamship Service Cor- poration, has been announced by

Donald H. Trautlein, chairman of

Bethlehem Steel Corporation. He succeeds Steven M. Moodie, whose retirement has been announced.

Mr. Coulahan is advancing from his present position as man- ager of chartering, Steamship

Service Corporation, with offices in New York City. He was first employed by Bethlehem Steel in 1952 as a junior clerk in the for- mer Ore Steamship Corporation,

New York. He became a senior transportation assistant in 1961, and was transferred to Sparrows

Point, Md., in 1962. Mr. Coulahan held various operating positions with Bethlehem's water trans- portation subsidiaries there, and in 1972 he became general super- intendent, marine personnel.

Mr. Coulahan was transferred back to the New York offices in 1975, and became manager of chartering in 1977, the position he held until this promotion.

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Trans-Lifts, and chain jacks — and how they are used for me- chanical translation in building docks, ship "extrusion" down slipways, launching onto floating drydocks, ship lifting, and con- structing portable pontoon piers for cargo unloading. Photographs show actual field use of equip- ment, and drawings show se- quence of operation.

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Belcher Towing To Add

Powerful Docking Tug

To Its Miami Fleet

Belcher Towing Company will add a 3,000-horsepower ship dock- ing tug to its fleet in the Port of Miami, vice president James

Whitehouse has announced. To be named the Belcher-Miami, the new tug is scheduled to go into service in Miami harbor by the fall of 1981. Belcher Towing, a subsidiary of Belcher Oil Com- pany, presently operates four tugs and six ship-fueling barges in the harbor.

The new tug will be constructed

January 15, 1981 at Main Iron Works in Houma,

La., Mr. Whitehouse said. She will be a 90-foot-long vessel, with a 32-foot beam and a 12-foot draft. The Belcher-Miami will be very similar to the tug Mary

Belcher, a 3,000-bhp craft added to the harbor fleet in 1975. "We believe the addition of the Belcher-Miami will greatly strengthen our ability to serve

Miami's growing cruise and ship- ping industry," said Mr. White- house. "Belcher is committed to sharing in the responsibilities which will insure the Port of Mi- ami's preeminence."

The Belcher companies are units of The Coastal Corporation,

Houston-based international en- ergy supply company. The Belch- er Towing fleet includes a total of 15 tugs and 26 barges in serv- ice throughout the Belcher sys- tem, which stretches from Maine to Florida, around the Gulf of

Mexico to Texas, and up the Mis- sissippi to Memphis.

Other programs to expand the

Belcher Towing fleet include con- struction of two oceangoing tug- boats now nearing completion at

Savannah, Ga., and two ocean- going barges constructed in Gal- veston, Texas. One of those barges is complete and the other will be launched early in 1981.

These two projects will result in matched tug/barge units.

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