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Richard Palk Elected

President Of American

Trading Transportation

Richard Palk has been elected president of American Trading

Transportation Company, Inc., ac- cording to an announcement made by that New York City-based shipping company. Mr. Palk, who had been vice president and gen- eral manager, will now serve as chief executive officer. A Kings

Point graduate, he originally joined the American Trading fleet in 1951 as a third assistant en- gineer, and has held increasingly responsible engineering and ex- ecutive positions with the com- pany since that time.

Concurrently with Mr. Palk's promotion, Frank J. Murphy as- sumes the newly created position of chairman of the board of

American Trading Transporta- tion. In this capacity he will con- tinue his association with the company that extends over 42 years, and will assume responsi- bilities in the areas of organiza- tional development, industry re- lations, and long-range planning.

American Trading Transporta- tion Company operates a fleet of

U.S.-flag tankers. The company is

The same age!

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Other cargo oil pipe after 6 years' use.

The pipe above obviously needs replacement, soonest possible, while the Kubota cargo oil pipe, shown below it, still has several years of good service life left. When replacing the pipe in your vessels, consider that Kubota's give more than two times longer service than most others. Fifteen years of use without replacement is ample proof of their superiority. Why?

Kubota materials and methods cannot be found anywhere else in the world. The material is KCP-3L, a chrome manganese steel especially developed by this company. It is made by Kubota's exclusive centrifugal casting techniques, widely acknowledged to be of the highest technological level. The highest degree of weldability gives it the greatest facility of use. That is why fully 95% of all Japanese tankers use Kubota cargo oil pipe. And why shipbuilders and repair docks around the world keep it on hand for installation and replacement. Write today for full information on how to ^ raise the efficiency of your tanker operations. * KIIBOTH [RRCO OIL PIPE

The Basic Necessities Gianl

Kubota, Ltd. Steel Castings Sales Dept.

Osaka Head Olfice: 2 47 Shikltsuhigashi 1 chome Nanlwa-ku. Osaka Japan Phone: Osaka 648-2168

Cable Address: IRONKUBOTA OSAKA Telex: 526-7785 KUBOTA J

Tokyo Office: 3. Nihonbashi Muromachl 3-chome. Chuo-ku. Tokyo Japan Phone: Tokyo 279-2111 Cable

Address: IRONKUBOTA TOKYO Telex: 222-6068 KUBOTA J

Overseas Offices*

Kubota America Corporation (New York Office): The Chrysler Building 59th Floor, 405 Lexington Avenue. New York N Y 10174. U S A Phone 212-490-8050 Kubota America Cor- poration (Los Angeles Office): 523 West Sixth Street. Suite 432, Los Angeles. California 90014 U S A Phone: 213-627-6377 Kubota. Ltd.. London Office: 11/12 Hanover Street.

London W1R 9HF. U.K. Phone: 01-629-6471 ~4 Kubota, Ltd., Diisseldorf Office: 4000 Dusseldorf. Georg-Glock Strasse 14, Federal Republic of Germany Phone: 0211 450-907

Kubota, Ltd.. Bangkok Office: Thaniya Bldg 4th Floor. 62 Silom Road. Bangkok, Thailand Phone: 234-7880. 234-7882 Representative of Kubota. Ltd. (Jakarta Office): Skyline

Building 16F J L M.H. Thamrin No. 9 Jakarta. Indonesia Phone: 323977 a wholly owned subsidiary of

American Trading and Produc- tion Corporation, a diversified

Baltimore-based concern with in- terests in transportation, oil and gas, real estate, and manufactur- ing operations. $13.2-Million Award To

Norfolk Shipbuilding For

USS Austin Overhaul

Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry- dock Company, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $13,200,000 firm fixed price contract for the reg- ularly scheduled overhaul of the amphibious transport dock USS

Austin (LPD-4). The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and

Repair, USN, Portsmouth, Va., is the contracting activity. (N62678- 76-C-0036)

Robert Doyle Named

Marine Industry Manager

At Ameron

Robert Doyle has been appoint- ed marine industry manager for

Ameron's Protective Coatings Di- vision, according to James Slatic, division president. He will oper- ate from Ameron's East Bruns- wick, N.J. office coordinating the division's domestic and interna- tional marine coatings activities.

Mr. Doyle, a recognized au- thority in marine corrosion con- trol, has a BS degree in chemis- try from Franklin and Marshall

College. He is a registered cor- rosion engineer in the state of

California, and a certified NACE corrosion specialist. $58-Million Navy Order

For 8 Oceanographic

Systems To Hydroscience

Whitehall Corporation's sub- sidiary, Hydroscience, Inc., Dal- las, Texas has signed a firm fixed price prime contract with the

U.S. Navy for the production of eight oceanographic systems, with an option for four additional systems. The Surveillance Towed

Array Sensor System (SURTASS) is a high priority Navy program for the collection and processing of undersea acoustic data. The contract price, including the op- tion, totals $58,000,000. Contract schedules call for delivery of the first eight systems at approxi- mately 75-day intervals from

January 30, 1982, through July 15, 1983, for delivery of the four optioned systems from Septem- ber 30, 1983, through May 15, 1984. Deliveries will total $22,- 632,000 in 1982, $23,097,000 in 1983, $12,033,000 in 1984, and $238,000 in 1985, assuming exer- cise of the option.

Production facilities more than adequate to meet the contract re- quirements were acquired three years ago. Equipment and per- sonnel are already on hand to in- sure that contract delivery sched- ules are met or bettered. 22 Write 181 on Reader Service Card 22 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News