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Norshipco Gets Contract

For Lay-Up Work On Two

Reserve Fleet Vessels

Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry- dock Company of Norfolk, Va., has been awarded a $407,470 contract by the Maritime Administration for shipyard work required to lay up the C4 cargo ships American Cham- pion and American Ranger. The vessels are part of the National De- fense Reserve Fleet maintained by

MarAd.

The work includes drydocking to inspect underwater hull areas, seal- ing the ships, and installing dehu- midification equipment. Following completion of the lay-up and deacti- vation procedures, the vessels will be returned to the James River, Va.,

NDRF site.

Asea Hagglunds Opens

Office In New York Area

Asea Hagglunds of Houston has opened an office in Yonkers, N.Y., to further improve its service to shipping and industry. Manager of the new office is John A. Albino, executive vice president of Asea

Hagglunds Inc., who was formerly with Asea Stal-Laval Inc. The ad- dress is: Asea Hagglunds Inc., 1

Odell Terrace, Yonkers, N.Y. 10701; telephone (914) 969-1900, telex 646564.

Asea Hagglunds is a manufactur- ing and distributing company con- cerned primarily with products of

AB Hagglund & Soner, the Swedish engineering enterprise well known for hydraulic drives, electro-hydrau- lic deck cranes, offshore handling equipment, tunneling equipment, and specialized vehicles.

Estaleiros Reunidos do Brasil S.A.,

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Dr. A.K.

Malhotra, member operations, Oil & Natural Gas Commission, Bom- bay, India; Ward L. Mauck, presi- dent, American Institute of Marine

Underwriters, New York, N.Y.; Jo- seph D. Mazzei, president and general manager, Sun Transport,

Inc., Aston, Pa.; VAdm. K.R. Men- on, chairman and managing direc- tor, Hindustan Shipyard Ltd.,

Gandhigram, Visakhaptnam, India;

William J. O'Brien, Kirlin, Cam- bell & Keating, New York, N.Y.;

N.K. Sawhney, chairman and managing director, Mazagon Dock

Ltd., Bombay, India; G.R. Stew- art, deputy commissioner, Canadi- an Coast Guard, Ottawa, Ontario,

Canada; A.P. Vacca, technical manager of Marine Technical Ser- vices Ltd. Bermuda, R and K Ltd.,

London, England; Vardis J. Var- dinoyannis, Varima Corporation

International S.A., Piraeus, Greece;

Enrique Vargas Ramirez, gen- eral manager, Flota Mercante Gran- colombiana S.A., Bogota, Colombia;

Douglas C. Wolcott, president,

Chevron Shipping Company, San

Francisco, Calif.; Emilio T. Yap, chairman of the board, Philippine

President Lines, Inc., Manila, Phil- ippines; Donald R. Yearwood, president, American Trading

Transportation Company, Inc., New

York, N.Y.; and VAdm. Paul A.

Yost Jr., Commander-Atlantic

Area and Third Coast Guard Dis- trict, United States Coast Guard,

New York, N.Y. 21 New Members

Elected To ABS

Twenty-one executives of the maritime industry from nine differ- ent countries were elected mem- bers of the American Bureau of

Shipping (ABS) at the semi-annual meeting in September of the Board of Managers of this international ship classification society. The meeting was held at ABS headquar- ters in New York. The new members are: Artistides Alafouzos, Glafki

Shipping company, S.A., Athens,

Greece; David Beebe Jr., man- ager, Chubb & Son Inc., Warren,

N.J.; Hatsu Y.F. Chang, chair- man, Evergreen Marine Corp. (Tai- wan) Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan, China;

Henry F. Gooss, manager, Institu- tional Investments, Brown Brothers

Harriman & Company, New York,

N.Y.; Alvin Green, executive vice president and senior counsel, Sea- train Lines, Inc., New York, N.Y.;

Gary S. Grimes, vice president, general manager, Quincy Shipbuild- ing Division, General Dynamics,

Quincy, Mass.; Dr. Peter A.H.

Landsberg, president, Verolme

November 1, 1984

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