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P.D. Marchessini & Co.

Names de Smedt President

A. Theodore de Smedt has been named presi- dent of P.D. Marchessini & Co. (New York)

Inc., according to an announcement by Alex- ander P. Marchessini. Mr. de Smedt formerly held top executive positions with a number of •other ocean steamship companies—most re- cently, Prudential-Grace Lines.

P.D. Marchessini is the United States gen- eral agent for Marchessini Lines and, accord- ing to the report by the company, Mr. de Smedt will join the executive management group in directing the worldwide liner and tramp ship operations of Marchessini.

Ocean And N.S.U. Form

Joint LNG Company

Ocean Transport & Trading and N.V. Neder- landsche Scheepvaart Unie have formed a joint company in Belgium, N.V. Gastranseo S.A., which will develop the marketing of liquefied natural gas transport.

So far, member companies of the Ocean and

N.S.U. Groups, respectively, have each order- ed one 120,000-cubic-meter LNG vessel from

Chantiers de L'Atlaratique, St. Nazaire, France.

These sister vessels, which will be delivered in 1976 and 1977, are of the Gas Transport Mem- brane type and will be capable of a speed of 19 knots. The Gas Transport system is that used successfully in the Polar Alaska and the

Arctic Tokyo running from Alaska to Japan.

It is also being installed on three of Shell's new 75,000-cu'bic-mater ships on the Brunei-

Japan run.

Managing director of the new company is

B.B.G. Lagers, a deputy-member of the N.S.U. board of executive directors. General manager is P.D. Graham from the Ocean Group. Tech- nical and commercial manager, respectively, are G.J.W. Van de Weert and H. Heyligers, both from N.S.U.

Gastransco's officers are in Antwerp, Bel- gium.

Jamesbury Names

Marine Representatives

Three organizations have been named marine representatives for Jamesbury Corporation, Wor- cester, Mass. The new representatives are: M.J.

Gigy & Associates, Inc., P.O. Box 750, San Pe- dro, Calif. 90733; Alexander Marine Associates,

Inc., 1901 Julia Street, New Orleans, La. 70113, and Tate Temco, Incorporated, Carey & Ward

Streets, Baltimore. Md. 21230.

Each organization will be handling Jamesbury's full lines of Double-Seal ball valves and high- performance Wafer-Sphere butterfly valves, in- cluding Coast Guard approved positive shut-off butterfly valves and cryogenic valves suitable for

LNG applications. Jamesbury valves are being offered for either manual or automatic operation.

David W. Warner Joins

Jones, Bardelmeier

David W. Warner joined the Nassau, Ba- hamas-based ocean bulk shipping consulting firm of Jones, Bardelmeier & Co. Ltd. on June 1, 1973, as senior consultant-New York. Until

May 31, 1973, Mr. Warner was manager-ad- ministration in the Physical Distribution

Group of International Paper Company in New

York, and had been involved in the planning and operation by I.P.C. of marine and trans- portation activities, including the charter and regular use of LASH, ro/ro, and container ves- sels.

Jones, Bardelmeier & Co. Ltd., founded in 1963 by several former executives of major

U.S.-owned shipping companies, has subse- quently been retained by or conducted special project shipping studies for approximately 100 companies throughout the world with an in- terest of one nature or another in the large volume movement of liquid and dry bulk com- modities by sea.

With the addition of Mr. Warner to Jones,

Bardelmeier &Co. Ltd., Roger M. Jones, presi- dent, stated: "Mr. Warner will add a new di- mension to our consulting services, as his ex- perience with LASH, ro/ro and container and intermodal systems should be of great assis- tance to certain of our clients." check in for

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