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Sal Berte Forms

Saber Communications —Literature Available

Sal Berte recently announced the formation of Saber Communica- tions, a Houston-based company that will specialize in the represen- tation of high-quality products for marine dealers in both the commer- cial and pleasure-craft market- places. In addition, the company will offer marketing and technical consultant services on a national ba- sis.

Saber Communications has al- ready established a Telemarketing

Division whose day-to-day opera- tions are run by Mr. Berte's sons

Carl and Sal Jr., offering auto- matic Telemarketing services, a product called Telehold which solves the customer-on-hold prob- lems, and as a WaynePaging fran- chisee, offering Paging equipment with voice mail and toll-free 800 ser- vices.

Mr. Berte is presently vice presi- dent of NMEA, and on the board of directors of RTCM. He was former- ly general sales manager with Ra- dio-Holland USA, B.V., and direc- tor of marketing for the Communi- cations Systems Division of North

American Philips, and brings over 20 years of high-tech communica- tions and marine electronic experi- ence to Saber. He has successfully created and operated nationwide networks of over 200 dealers for both former companies.

For more information and free lit- erature on Saber Communications,

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Trinity Marine Expands

Ship-Repair Capabilities

With 2,000-Ton Drydock

The Trinity Marine Group, New

Orleans, La., has expanded its ship- repair and conversion capabilities with the addition of a 2,000-ton, 162-foot floating drydock.

John Dane III, president of the

Trinity Marine Group, said the dock's length, and 59-1/2-foot dis- tance between wingwalls, provide the capacity to accommodate a wide range of vessels up to 250 feet.

Trinity also operates a 4,000-ton, 160-foot drydock with 120 feet be- tween wingwalls at its Equitable

Shipyards, Inc., facility in New Or- leans.

The latest drydock can be utilized at any of the group's six shipyards.

In addition to the Equitable/New

Orleans facility, the Trinity Marine

Group includes Equitable's Madi- sonville, La., yard; Halter Marine

Inc., shipyards in Moss Point, Miss., and Lockport, Miss.; Moss Point

Marine, Inc., Escatawpa, Miss.; and

Gretna Machine & Iron Works, Inc.,

Harvey, La.

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September, 1988 $40-Million Order Won

By AESA For 140,000-Dwt

Oil Tanker For CNN

An option to build a second 140,000-dwt oil tanker at the Puerto

Real yard of Astilleros Espanoles

SA has been taken up by Nacionale de Navegacion (CNN), bringing to five the number of Suezmax tankers on order at the state-owned facility in southern Spain.

The 899-foot-long by 141-foot vessel will be equipped with Bur- meister & Wain main machinery de- veloping 18,300 bhp and a service speed of 14 knots. Astilleros Espa- noles said the engineroom would be fully automated and the ship would operate with a crew of 18.

The price of the new tanker is expected to be upwards of $40 mil- lion

Construction of the new tanker provides a further 750,000 man- hours of work for Puerto Real, which will be working at full capac- ity by next year.

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FAX: 1-714-548-5441 (516) 588-3900 • Telex: 12-6506

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