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IPS Names Three

In Marine Operations

IPS, Independent Petroleum

Supply Company, has announced that J.J. Ferrara has been trans- ferred t,o the Independent Indo- nesia American Petroleum Com- pany (HAPCO) as their manager of supply and transportation.

A.J. Luminoso will head up ma- rine activities and in particular, tanker chartering, and B.E. Kahler will head up tanker operation. Both gentlemen will report to E.E. Cun- ningham Jr., who is in charge of operations, including marketing, for IPS.

Babcock & Wilcox

Appoints J.R. Ross

To I & M Department

J.R. Ross has been named mana- ger of applications engineering in the industrial and marine depart- ment of The Babcock & Wilcox

Company, Barherton, Ohio. He replaces A.W. Jackson, who was named general manager and vice president of the industrial and ma- rine department.

Mr. Ross will be responsible for marketing to institutions and to the chemical, steel, pulp and paper, marine and general industries. He will handle the sale of marine boil- ers, Basic Oxygen Furnace hoods, package boilers, wet gas clean-up systems and pulverized coal injec- tion systems.

Mr. Ross joined B&W in New

York City as an estimator in 1940, after receiving a B.S. degree in in- dustrial engineering from Pratt In- stitute. He later served as a con- tract supervisor and assistant proj- ect manager. In 1964, he was named manager of service parts sales.

Olympic Steamship

And Norton, Lilly

Announce Agreement

G.R. Seefeldt, president, Olym- pic Steamship Co., Inc. of Seattle,

Wash., and John Griffith, chair- man of 'the board, Norton Lilly &

Co., Inc. of New York, N.Y., have announced an agreement between the companies relating to their

West Coast operations. Under the agreement, Olympic, a Seattle- based company with over 30 years' activity on the Pacific Coast, have closed its California offices as of Oc- tober 1. Norton, Lilly, a New York company with 130 years of continu- ous operations in the maritime field, will reopen offices in San

Francisco and Los Angeles at

Olympic's present locations—at 425

California Street in San Francisco, and One Wilshire Boulevard in

Los Angeles—and the two com- panies will act as sub-agents for each other in California and the

Pacific Northwest.

Under this agreement, Olympic will continue as Norton, Lilly's agent for the Shipping Corporation of India in the U.S. Pacific North- west, while in California the line will be handled by Norton, Lilly as of October 1. Olympic's other activities at Seattle and Portland will continue without interruption.

William F. Horton, presently vice president for California of

Olympic, will head Norton, Lilly's new organization as vice president,

West Coast. Mr. Horton is presi- dent of the Foreign Shipowners

Association of the Pacific Coast.

Ralph Kramer and Ernest

Schenk will continue as district managers for Los Angeles and San

Francisco, respectively, in Norton,

Lilly.

Chotin Transportation

Appoints F.R. Keegan

Capt. Scott Chotin, president of

Chotin Transportation, Inc., has announced the appointment of

Francis R. Keegan as vice presi- dent of traffic. Chotin Transporta- tion is a New Orleans, La., based barge line which operates 13 tow- boats and 200 tank an'd dry cargo barges on the inland waterway system.

Mr. Keegan joined Chotin on

August 16, 1971, leaving a similar position with B&M Towing Com- pany of Houston, where he served for nine years. Mr. Keegan has over 25 years of experience in the water transportation industry. He started in 1945 with National Ma- rine Service, Inc. and served in va- rious positions until 1960. In 1960, he became traffic manager of Mis- souri River Barge Line at Kansas

City and was appointed vice presi- dent of B&M Towing Company in 1962.

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