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Matson Navigation

Promotes W.N. Boyer

W.N. Boyer has been promoted to manager of preliminary design by Matson Navigation Company, it was announced by A.J. Haskell, vice president, engineering and ma- rine operations.

Mr. Boyer joined Matson in

October 1966 as a project engineer and has been senior project engi- neer since December 1968. He served as project engineer for con- struction of Matson's container- ships Hawaiian Enterprise and

Hawaiian Progress, both built by

Bethlehem at Sparrows Point, Md.

Before he came to Matson, Mr.

Boyer served with General Dy- namics Electric Boat Division at

Groton, Conn. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and re- ceived a master's degree in engi- neering from the University of

Connecticut.

F.W. Hartmann & Co.

Announces Elections

Joseph F. Daly, president of F.W.

Hartmann & Company, Inc., an- nounced that at a recent meeting the directors of the corporation elected Patrick Mongno as vice president, John Benasich as assis- tant vice president, Edward De

Francesco as assistant vice presi- dent, and Arthur Cadorine as as- sistant treasurer.

Mr. Mongno heads the Hansa

Line USA/Mideast operation; Mr.

Benasich is in charge of the Black

Star Line; Mr. De Francesco heads the heavy lift, roll-on/roll-off and unitization departments, and Mr.

Cadorine is chief accountant of the company.

NKK Names Sasabe

To Managerial Post

In New York Office mm &\ am

Sachio Sasabe

Sachio Sasabe has been appoint- ed manager, shipbuilding and heavy industries department, New York office, Nippon Kokan (NKK), suc- ceeding Hiroo Ikematsu, who has been named manager, initial design department, shipbuilding division,

Tokyo.

NKK is Japan's only integrated shipbuilder - steelmaker - fabricator and the nation's number two steel- maker. The company's fiscal 1970 sales (April 1, 1970 to March 31, 1971) were $1,631,000,000.

Mr. Sasabe will be responsible for the sale and service of ships and for promoting sales of heavy equipment manufactured by NKK.

This includes the Munckloader, a high-efficiency gantry crane which sharply increases cargo handling capacity ; ocean drilling machinery; steel containers; rolling mills and electric arc furnaces for steelmak- ing, and mechanical presses.

Since January 1968, he has been manager, shipbuilding division, ex- port sales section, NKK-Tokyo headquarters. Prior to that time, he held executive positions in the business section of NKK's Tsurumi

Shipyard near Tokyo and in the export ship section, Tokyo.

Mr. Sasabe joined the company in 1954, upon graduation from the

Keio University. A native of Ka- makura City, Kanagawa Prefec- ture, Japan, he resides in Manhat- tan. ( BUILDING A NEW BOAT ? ca " Mrffonfirst-

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