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Executive Promotions At Central Gulf Lines

Hugo F. Hansen

The promotion of seven execu- tives to new corporate staff posi- tions in New Orleans, La., and

Houston, Texas, has been announc- ed by Central Gulf Lines, Inc.,

New Orleans4ieadquartered U.S.- flag owner and operator.

Central Gulf president Erik F.

Johnsen said the new appoint- ments, effective September 1, in- clude : Hugo F. Hansen, vice presi- dent, with principal responsibilities for the company's $100-mill!on

U.S.-flag LASH program now un- der construction; E.C. Faerber, vice president in charge of the company's Southwest Division,

Houston; Dennis F. Hannan, ex- ecutive vice president of Mid Gulf

Stevedores, Inc., a Central Gulf subsidiary, with responsibility for all company stevedoring operations in the U.S. Gulf area; Chris S.

Larsen Jr., general manager, North

Europe LASH Division; Thomas

B. Denegre III, general manager,

LASH Traffic Department; Charles

L. Rankin, general manager of the

Southwest Division, Hougton, with principal responsibility for market- ing and sales development, and

Austin M. Seay, general manager of Mid Gulf Stevedores, Inc., Hous- ton.

Mr. Hansen joined Central Gulf in 1965 as resident director of the company's Bombay, India, office.

In 1968, he opened a Central Gulf office in Tokyo, Japan, to direct

Asian operations and in 1970, he came to New Orleans as director of operations. Earlier this year,

Mr. Hansen represented Interna- tional House as the first member of any trade group in the southern

United States to be invited to the

People's Republic of China.

Mr. Faerber joined Central Gulf in New Orleans in 1956, he moved to the Houston office of the com- pany as a traffic representative in 1958, and was named manager

Austin M. Seay of that office in 1959. He has served as general manager of the South- west Division since 1965. As com- pany vice president in Houston, he will take an active part in coordi- nating marketing and sales activi- ties.

Mr. Hannan, a native of New

Orleans, joined Central Gulf in 1957, and served in the Operations and Stevedoring Departments. He was subsequently named opera- tions manager of Central and since 1970, has served as general mana- ger of the company's LASH Di- vision.

Mr. Larsen is a native of New

Orleans and a graduate of Emory

University. He joined Central Gulf in 1969. He was named LASH barge dispatcher in 1970, assistant general manager of the LASH Di- vision in 1971, and manager of the

LASH Barge Department in 1972.

Mr. Denegre is a native of Bi- loxi, Miss., and a graduate of the

University of Virginia. He joined

Central Gulf in 1970, and has held various key positions in the com- pany^ Traffic Department.

Mr. Rankin joined Central Gulf in 1972 after serving in managerial positions since 1946 for two other shipping companies. He opened a new office for Central Gulf in Mem- phis, Tenn., and has been serving as manager of the company's Mid

South Division. He is a native of

Brenham, Texas.

Mr. Seay joined Central Gulf in 1970, and has served in the com- pany's Operations and Traffic De- partments. He most recently served as West Gulf operations manager in Houston.

An affiliate of Trans Union Cor- poration, Central Gulf Lines is headquartered in New Orleans, and maintains offices in New York,

Houston, and Memphis. The com- pany has agents in all principal world ports.

Bethlehem Beaumont

Converting C1MAV1

To Drilling Vessel

The C1MAV1 TAGKNOT is be- ing converted by Bethlehem Steel

Corporation's shipyard in Beau- mont, Texas, to a drilling vessel for Storm Drilling Company of

Houston, Texas.

Known as Hurricane, this unit is the same class as the drill ships

Typhoon and Cyclone. This class of vessel has the capability of drill- ing in waters up to 600 feet deep.

Installation of a new midship section will increase the vessel length to 380 feet from 338 feet

She will also be widened through installation of 10-foot-wide spon- sons on each side of the vessel for 250 feet. This modification will in- crease the beam to 70 feet from 50 feet.

The Hurricane will be fitted with two Mariner 50-foot cranes, and the mooring system will have four

National 4800 doulble-drum winch- es spooling 3,250 feet of 2%ninch wire rope and 830,000-lwt anchors.

Resistance to wave motion will be accomplished by installing a

McMullen flume system and two roll stabilizers (Oversize bilge keels), each 145 feet by 4 feet.

The Hurricane will differ from its predecessors in some respects.

For example, the same power source that propels the ship will also be used for the drilling opera- tion.

The single diesel propulsion en- gine has been replaced with an electric motor drive. The central power system will be three 1,500- kilowatt AC generator systems powered by GM Electro-Motive

Division diesels. DC power for propulsion and rig operation will be converted from AC through an

SCR system.

Delivery is scheduled for spring: of 1974.

Engelhard Offers

Illustrated Brochure

On Hypochlorinators

A four-page illustrated brochure on CHLOROPAC electrolytic hy- pochlorinators for shipboard anti- fouling applications in seawater systems is now available from En- gelhard Industries. Designed spe- cifically for shipboard use, the unit's "on-board" generating cells are simple, efficient, completely corrosion-resistant and carry a five- year warranty graded as to period of usage.

For brochure copies, write En- gelhard Industries, Technical Serv- ice Department, 430 Mountain Ave- nue, Murray Hill, N.J. 07974.

Arthur Liley Named

Gen. Manager WABCO

Fluid Power Division

Arthur Liley

The appointment of Arthur Liley as general manager of the WAB-

CO Fluid Power Division, Lexing- ton, Ky., has been announced by

R.E. Spaid, vice president and group executive of the American-

Standard Power and Controls

Group, Dearborn, Mich., of which the Fluid Power Division is a part.

Mr. Liley has served in mana- gerial positions with Bellows-Val- vair in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. He has also served as the Parker-Hanni- fin Corporation's Canadian sales manager and general manager pri- or to joining American Standard in 1972. Most recently, he has served as vice president-general manager of American-Standard In- dustrial Products Ltd., Bramalea,

Ontario, another division of the

American-Standard Power and

Controls Group.

Mr. Liley holds the Certificate of Industrial Management from the

University of Toronto. He is ac- tive in the Fluid Power Society and the Institute of Directors and has been an executive committee member of the Hamilton Branch of the Canadian Manufacturer's

Association. He is a native of Lon- don, Ontario.

The WABCO Fluid Power Di- vision manufactures a complete line of pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders, pneumatic valves and related fluid power devices.

Refrigerated Express

Appoints T.D. Lombard

Byron Sugahara, direotor of Re- frigerated Express Lines, 17 Bat- tery Place, New York, N.Y. 10004, has announced the appointment of

Thomas D. Lombard as general manager of the firm. Prior to join- ing Refrigerated Express, Mr.

Lombard was manager of marine operations for Prudential-Grace

Lines. Refrigerated Express op- erates a worldwide service for re- frigerated cargoes, with emphasis on trade routes between the East

Coast of North America and the

South Pacific.

Chris S. Larsen Jr. Thomas B. Denegre III 22 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News