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Hermont ISO-9002

Approved

Hermont Marine, Inc. success- fully passed the ISO-9002 audit in mid November. The company pro- vides services in pollution abate- ment, engine efficiency improve- ments and safety.

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Almskog Begins New Role

In early December, Kjell E.

Almskog officially took up his role as president and CEO of Kvaerner.

Christian Bjelland has stepped down as acting CEO.

Cummins To Offer Cose

Credit Financing

Cummins Engine Company, Inc. and Case Credit Corporation have entered into an agreement through which Case Credit will make financing available for North

American commercial marine cus- tomers building or repowering ves- sels powered by Cummins engines. "It provides a full array of qual- ity financing options for our cus- tomers, a value-added way to increase Cummins' sales and a means for growing Case Credit's portfolio," said F. Joseph

Loughrey, executive vice presi- dent and group president-industri- al for Cummins.

Cummins Wartsila

Regional Office

Cummins Wartsila has recently opened the Americas Regional

Marine Sales Office in Charleston,

S.C. This sales and marketing facility will provide primary sup- port to the North American market and the Distributor Network, which will be announced shortly.

The new office is led by Geoff

Conrad, Regional Director Marine

Sales - Americas.

Moran Announces Executive

Appointments

Edmond J. Moran, Jr., a

Moran employee for 27 years, has been named a senior vice president and will oversee the company's port operations and ship docking business based in 13 ports on the

East and Gulf coasts of the U.S.

Gregory F. McGinty, a former

Turecamo executive, has been named a senior vice president with responsibilities for business devel- opment and the company's con- struction and repair activities.

William P. Muller will remain president of the company's Moran

Services Corp. subsidiary and has also been named a senior vice pres- ident of Moran Towing Corp. with responsibility for the company's marine transportation and con- tract towing operations.

Peter J. Nistad, a former

Turecamo executive, has been named a senior vice president with responsibility for port operations and ship docking in Southeastern and Gulf ports.

Cruisair Redesigns Line

Next year Cruisair will offer a completely redesigned Sentry FR line of ferroresonant marine bat- tery chargers. The series is avail- able in a wide selection of models, ranging from 20 to 60 amps, for 12, 24 and 32 VDC output and 115 or 230VAC, 60 and 50 Hz inputs. The charger design features an auto- matic shut-off circuit, to avoid overcharging and dehydrating bat- teries. The unit shuts itself off once all batteries reach full charge.k

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Mobil Launches Water In Fuel Guarantee

Mobil International Marine Fuels is now offering a cash-back guaran- tee of low water content in its fuel oil. "Mobil guarantees a maximum water content of 0.5 percent in its fuel oil supplied at Singapore," says

Iain White, Mobil manager for marine fuels and trading. "Anything more than that and we pay the buyer the difference."

Heavy fuel products sold to the ISO 8217 standard are required to have a water content of less than 1.0 percent. Mobil is to guarantee a content of less than half of this for all its Singapore supplies. "Owners and charterers want the best price and the best quality. And they do not want disputes over quantities. Excess water in the fuel affects both price, quality and quantity. We are certain of the high quality of our product, and prepared to guarantee it," said White.

Mobil is also adding to its Singapore product range. In addition to the full range of gas oil and low viscosity fuel oils, it will now be able to supply 500 est oil for ships burning high viscosity fuel.

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