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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS cialist, has moved to the London office from the Kobe offfice, and

Ketil E. Boe, a resident lawyer with experience in securities, financial and contract law and transaction management, was for- merly stationed in Oslo. Mr.

Mathisen will concentrate on maritime law and marine insur- ance law, strengthening the

London office's core business of handling sale, purchase and ship finance transactions.

Furuno Promotes Rick Walls

Furuno U.S.A. has appointed

Rick Walls Customer Service manager for U.S. operations. Mr.

Walls has been with Furuno for more than eight years, serving most recently as assistant manag- er of East Coast Operations.

In his new role, he will be respon- sible for supervising the order ser- vice and customer relations departments.

GL Reports Strong Growth,

Opens New Malaysian

Office

Germanischer Lloyd (GL) contin- ued to grow in 1997 with gross per- formance rising 12.5 percent to $68.43 million in the first half of the year.

More than $143.7 million is expected for 1997 as a whole com- pared with $130.9 million in the previous year.

On Sept. 1, the volume of world merchant shipping classed by GL exceeded 25 million GT for the first time.

This compares with 18 million

GT five years ago.

To date this year, 173 newbuild- ings of 1.6 million GT have been delivered and an additional 269 units of 2.2 million GT are due for delivery by year's end.

GL also announced the opening of a new office for its subsidiary company in Malaysia.

It is the company's fifth

Malaysian office.

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Staffan Olsson Joins ASRY

ASRY's mechanical and piping organization has been strength- ened by the arrival of Staffan

Olsson, who will head up this ser- vice and report directly to ASRY's production manager, Chris

Potter.

Mr. Olsson began his career at

Johnson Line in 1971 where he eventually became chief engineer.

In 1985, he moved to Tarntank as chief engineer and newbuilding manager for product and chemical tankers. He then joined Nordic

Oriental first in Stockholm then in

Singapore as senior superinten- dent, handling the frontline fleet.

ABS Issues Updated

Guideline Booklet

ABS has reissued its widely-used guidelines for meeting Port State

Control inspection standards. The updated booklet contains new information and an expanded checklist intended to assist owners in meeting PSC standards.

Information in the new guide- lines is based on a detailed analy- sis of Port State Control activity by

ABS. The checklists, which have been perforated for ease of use onboard, now run to 18 pages and include areas and items which are covered by SOLAS, Load Line,

MARPOL and other international safety conventions in addition to classification requirements.

Also included in the ABS booklet are sections providing the back- ground to Port State Control and the general procedures followed in a Port State inspection and a syn- opsis of the types of class and statutory deficiencies that have been found during inspections.

The ABS guide, entitled Update on

Port State Control — Including

Routine Maintenance Checklists is available free of charge from any

ABS office to owners and operators of all vessels.

For more a copy of the ABS booklet

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U.S. Chamber Of Shipping

Appoints New Director

Kathy J. Metcalf was recently appointed director, Maritime

Affairs, of the U.S. Chamber of

Shipping (USCS), which repre- sents 20 U.S.-based companies which own, operate or charter oce- nagoing tankers, containerships 98 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News