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Todd And MarAd

Expansion Plans— and nuclear engineering at the Uni- versity of Virginia, College of Wil- liam and Mary, Virginia Polytech- nic Institute, and the U.S.M.M.A.

Mr. Gibson spoke at length on the Maritime Administration's re- search and development plans at a pre-ceremony luncheon hosted by

Ralph F. Anselmi, general mana- ger of Todd's Galveston Division.

He said, "The Port of Galveston is indicative of the changes that are coming about in the maritime industry. Designated the West

Gulf terminal for Lykes' innovative

SEABEE service, the port has un- dertaken an ambitious project to provide berthing facilities for the

SEABEE mother ships, a 14-acre barge basin, and a covered barge terminal to complement this serv- ice. "These new facilities and ships represent a new level in shipping efficiency, one that we are working to increase even further through the development and application of new advances to the shipping in- dustry."

As an indication of the greater importance being assigned to re- search and development programs,

Mr. Gibson stated "we have ad- vanced in striving toward this goal 'by greater allocations for maritime research. In Fiscal Year 1969, the appropriation was $6.7 million, half of which was allocated for the op- eration of the nuclear ship Savan- nah. In the succeeding years, the budget has risen to $23.8 million and our budget request for Fiscal

Year 1973 includes $30 million for research —1 a new record. Thus, there has been a ten-fold increase in the level of effective maritime

R&D funding in the last four years."

In closing, Mr. Gibson stressed the Government's desire to restore this nation to a position of preemi- nence in maritime development.

National Marine Service

Appoints W.B. Arnold

National Marine Service, Incor- porated, St. Louis, Mo., has an- nounced the appointment of the W.B.

Arnold Company of New Jersey as their East Coast sales representative of their Marine Systems Division for all ports north of Cape Hatteras.

The Marine Systems Division of

National Marine designs and manu- factures a complete line of Safety

Watch Monitoring and Control Sys- tems for diesel-powered seagoing and inland waterway vessels. These Safe- ty Watch systems automatically stand watch over the vessels' vital propul- sion systems and sound alarm and take automatic corrective action to protect the vessel should vital systems fail.

The W.B. Arnold Company, or- ganized in 1958, as sales representa- tive adds this Safety Watch group to their well-established line of Ameri- can and Overseas Marine machinery and equipment offered on the East

Coast.

Mathiesen To Head

Det Norske Veritas

Machinery Department

Tor-Chr. Mathiesen, principal surveyor of Det norske Veritas, has been appointed head of 'the ma- chinery department at the Society's head office as of January 1, 1972.

Mr. Mathiesen graduated from the Technical University of Nor- way, Trondheim, in 1962. The fol- lowing year he joined Det norske

Veritas, where he has been working in the machinery and research de- partment and also as a surveyor at the Rotterdam station. In 1969- 71, he undertook a postgraduate study in marine engineering at the

Technical University of Norway.

He was appointed principal survey- or last year. Mr. Mathiesen suc- ceeds Mr. Sivert Overaas as head of the machinery department.

Mr. Overaas has been appointed director of the technical/nautical department of the Norwegian As- sociation of Shipowners in Oslo.

He graduated from the Technical

University of Norway in 1949, and was with A.M. Liaaen Skipsverft og Mek. Verksted, Alesund before joining Veritas in 1952. Mr. Over- aas worked as a surveyor at Veritas stations in Hamburg and St. Na- zaire for several years and was ap- pointed assistant director and head of the machinery department at the head office in 1965. interstate Oil Transport brings you the modern version

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