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100th Gas Turbine

Produced By Fiat

The 100th Fiat industrial gas turbine has been produced by the

Grandi Motori section of Fiat's

Marine Division. Designed for the "Ras Abu Aboud B," stationed in the Persian Gulf, it is the first of 35 units currently under construc- tion.

Fiat started producing gas tur- bines after seeing their industrial potential. Fiat gas turbines are now produced in two of the company's plants, Grandi Motori (industrial gas turbines) and Motori Avio (aircraft gas turbines).

Industrial gas turbines with uni- tary power outputs ranging from 8,000 to 85,000 horsepower are manufactured. Production of gas turbines is carried out under a

Fiat-Westinghouse technical agree- ment, which also covers the ex- change of experience and know- how. Fiat is responsible for the de- sign, research, development, and construction of gas turbines in its own plants.

Robert Tarr Resigns

As DRT&S President;

Remains As Consultant

Robert J. Tarr has resigned as president and director of Delaware

River Terminal & Stevedoring Co.,

Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. He had served in these capacities since the formation of DRT&S two years ago, during which time he worked closely with the Philadelphia Port

Corporation in the planning and design of the new Tioga Marine

Terminal now leased to, and oper- ated by, DRT&S.

Mr. Tarr plans to devote more time to his corporate consulting activities in New York as well as

Philadelphia, including continued association with DRT&S on a con- sultant basis, with particular em- phasis on the operations at Tioga

Marine Terminal.

Mr. Tarr is also managing direc- tor of Rice, Unruh Co., and a direc- tor of DRT Industries, Inc., both of Philadelphia. He is an officer and director of several other cor- porations.

Dr. Ottone Empoldi

Three prominent shipping execu- tives have been named members of the Xew York City Council on

Port Development and Promotion, it was announced by administrator

Ken Patton, of the City Economic

Development Administration. They are: Dr. Ottone Empoldi, vice president, Costa Line Inc.; Joseph

P. Miraglia, president. JPM As- sociates Inc., and Thomas E. Mo- ran, president, Moran Towing Cor- poration.

The N.Y.C. Port Council now has a membership of 24 leaders in all branches of the maritime indus- try, representing foreign trade, freight forwarding, transportation and labor unions.

According to Ronald Javello, its new executive director, the group is now involved in a number of programs to maintain the preemi- nence of New York City as a world port. Recently, it joined the battle against Central of New Jersey and

Baltimore & Ohio Railroads to block their efforts to eliminate lighterage service from New Jersey to New York City.

Port Of Le Havre

Opens N.Y.C. Office

The Port of Le Havre Authority,

Le Havre, France, has opened a trade development office in New

York, located at 1350 Avenue of the Americas. The office provides information on matters pertaining to the development of the port, such as its container facilities, oil tanker terminals and wharfage.

The New York office is headed by

Christian Guary.

Le Havre achieved distinction by being one of the few places in the world able to berth the great ocean liners France and Queen Elizabeth

II. and to take oil tankers of up to 250,000 deadweight tons. Among the planned developments is the world's largest lock, 1,316 feet by 226 feet, scheduled to be opened at

Le Havre within a year. This will make it possible for bulk carrying vessels of up to 200,000 deadweight tons to enter a new port with complete shoreline industrial com- plexes. In addition, new offshore oil tanker facilities to handle the world's largest supertankers are scheduled for completion in 1973.

Le Havre, besides being France's second seaport in tonnage handled, is also the principal port for con- tainerships. Ten lines operate regu- larly out of Le Havre, seven on trans-Atlantic routes to New York and the Eastern Seaboard.

Thomas E. Moran

Dr. Empoldi is known as a mas- ter mariner, economist and mari- time expert. A native of Trieste, he studied in Turin, Brussels and

New York. He joined the Italian

Line in 1947. and was named gen- eral manager for North America in 1966. He innovated the Carib- bean cruise operations for the Ital- ian Line.

Mr. Miraglia, a native New

Yorker, enjoys a reputation as a maritime labor negotiator, an urban specialist in manpower training and minority economic develop- ment. From 1961 to 1964, he was

Deputy Director, Industrial Rela- tions. NASA. He is a member of the board of advisors of the U.S.

Merchant Marine Academy.

Mr. Moran, a native of Brooklyn, entered the New York shipping field shortly after his service as en- sign with the U.S. merchant ma- rine in World War II. He was vice president of Marine Transport

Lines from 1959 to 1964, then be- came president of Moran Towing.

He is also a director of American

Waterways Operators, Inc.

Gibbs & Cox, Inc.

Names T.M. Buermann

T.M. Buermann

Frederic H. Gibbs, president of

Gibbs & Cox, Inc., a leading naval architectural and marine engineer- ing firm, has announced the ap- pointment of T.M. Buermann as executive vice president, succeed- ing M.G. Forrest, who continues with the company as senior con- sultant.

Other recent appointments in- clude J.J. Convy, senior vice presi- dent, finance and administration;

J.P. Doyle, vice president and chief engineer; R.M. Ehrlich, vice presi- dent and chief electronics engineer;

F.W. Haltenhoff, chief electrical engineer; M. Dick, division head,

Hull Division, and P.H. Hadley Jr., vice president, contracts and mar- keting.

Shipping Leaders Join N.Y.C. Port Council

Joseph P. Miraglia

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