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AUTO-LOGIC Corp.

Signs $830,580

Contract With Navy

Jack Teague

Jack Teague, president and chair- man of the board of AUTO-

LOGIC Corporation, a Washing- ton, D.C. and Bethesda, Md. based logistic company, announced the signing of a contract with the U.S.

Navy in the amount of $830,580 for automated logistic services involv- ing ships in the U.S. Navy inactive fleet, located at the Navy Inactive

Ships Maintenance Facility in the

Orange and Beaumont, Texas, area.

AUTO-LOGIC is an Automated

Logistics International firm en- gaged primarily in the design, pro- graming, and implementation of logistic systems in support of equipment and technical repair parts for industry and Govern- ment, with emphasis given to ashore and afloat inventory control of shipboard equipments, technical repair parts and consumable sup- plies. Projects completed by the company's personnel have resulted in several million dollars savings by the U.S. Navy and commercial shipping lines.

Mr. Teague, a retired Navy sup- ply corps lieutenant, said that the project workers will go through more than 30 vessels at the facility to see how much prescribed equip- ment each has. "For selected ships, we completely remodernize all lo- gistics areas," Mr. Teague said. "We go through them from stem to stern." He said there are "tens of thousands of individual items" needed to equip each vessel. His company's project will determine which items are overstocked and which are lacking. "What might be an excess in one ship would be a deficiency in another," Mr.

Teague said.

After all the ships are examined, the information will be consoli- dated in computer records and the ships at the Orange facility will then be compared to see where the shortages on one ship can be made up by excesses on another, Mr.

Teague said. But the process doesn't stop there, he explained.

The inventory of equipment on the ships at the facility will be com- pared to other vessels throughout the Navy—even vessels on active duty. That comparison is also by computer, located at a Navy base at Oakland, Calif., Mr. Teague said, and when an excess of equip- ment is found 011 a vessel at

Orange, the equipment can then be shipped to a point where there is a deficiency.

Although the ships at the Orange facility are riot part of the active fleet, they must be kept fully equipped in case they are called to active duty, Mr. Teague said. His company's project will bring the ships up to date, he remarked.

The project will also involve stripping equipment from vessels that are to be sold for scrap. "We just cannibalize the ships in the areas where the Navy has a need for the equipment," Mr. Teague remarked. "There are still applica- tions for the equipment in the ac- tive Navy—this results in multi- million dollar savings. The pro- gram more than pays for itself."

Since some equipment from ob- solete vessels can be used in the active Navy, expensive production of new equipment is not necessary,

Mr. Teague said.

Mr. Teague explained that he de- veloped the program for Navy- wide consolidation of equipment by computer while on active duty as a supply corps lieutenant.

Baldt Corporation

Moves Headquarters

Baldt Corporation (OTC), New

York, has announced the transfer of its corporate headquarters to new offices at 1185 Avenue of the Ameri- cas, Suite 2150, New York, N.Y. 10036, effective March 26, 1971. The new telephone number is (212) 489- 8775.

Baldt Corporation is a diversified manufacturer whose operations in- clude a marine and oceanographic group and an industrial products and equipment group.

Eugene F. Moran Jr.

Eugene F. Moran Jr., a vice president of the Moran Towing and Transportation Company es- tablished by his grandfather, died recently in Southside Hospital,

Bay Shore, Long Island, N.Y., after a long illness. He was 68 years old and lived at 235 Lake

View Avenue West, Brightwaters,

Long Island.

Mr. Moran began working for the major towing company before his graduation from Lehigh Uni- versity in 1925. He was a member of the Knights of Malta, a past president of the Friendly Sons of

St. Patrick, and a vice president and director of the Brooklyn

Chamber of Commerce.

Berwind Lines, Inc.

Appoints B.J. Robeson

Exec. Vice President

Bruce J. Robeson

Bruce J. Robeson has been ap- pointed executive vice president of

Berwind Lines, Inc., it was an- nounced by top official Hugh G.

McComas in revealing a restruc- turing of Berwind's high echelon management.

Mr. McComas, group vice presi- dent of Berwind Corporation of

Philadelphia and president of Ber- wind Lines Inc. of Puerto Rico, said that all executive personnel will report to him through Mr.

Robeson.

Mr. Robeson is a graduate of the Merchant Marine Academy at

Kings Point, N.Y., and comes to

Berwind via the U.S. Navy, Grace

Lines, and until his move to Ber- wind, Matson Navigation Co. in

San Francisco, where he was su- perintendent of fleet operations with system-wide responsibilities for container, general and bulk car- go operations.

Prior to that, Mr. Robeson held various positions with Matson in the freight division, including that of freight operations manager in the Hawaiian Islands. "Mr. Robe- son's long experience in container operations will assist Berwind, the principal locally-based inter-island container carrier, in expanding and improving its service," Mr. Mc-

Comas said.

Hudson Waterways

Names VP-Operations

For Container Vessels

Capt. Kosta Jeremic

Capt. Kosta Jeremic, commodore of the fleet of Hudson Waterways

Corp., has been named vice presi- dent in charge of operations for container vessels, it was announced by Samuel Kahn, president.

Hudson Waterways, a subsidi- ary of Seatrain Lines, Inc., oper- ates the parent company's contain- erships. Captain Jeremic has been with the company for 17 years.

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