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Donald Frisby Named Manager

Armco Steel's Houston Markets

Donald L. Frisby Robert E. Portik

Armco 'Steel Corporation has announced the appointment of Donald L. Frisby as mana- ger of Houston markets. He will direct and coordinate activities for markets served by products produced at 'Armco's Houston Works.

He will Ibe responsible for marketing to the marine and liquefied natural gas industries.

Mr. Frisby joined the company in 1948 and has held assignments in public relations and in the International Division. He served as a market specialist for industrial markets in 1965, and was promoted to supervisor of those markets in '1971.

Completing the Houston steel marketing staff will >be Robert E. Portik, supervisor, with responsibility for the construction and offshore markets in the South, Southwest' and Gulf

Coast areas. Mr. Portik joined Armco's Metal

Products Division in 1958. Michael L. McClel- land, market specialist, will have, the hydro- carbon processing industries markets. He moves to Houston, Texas, from Armco's office in Jackson, Miss.

Howaldtswerke-Deutsche

To Expand Shipyard Facilities

Roland Marine, Inc., 50 Broadway, New

York, N.Y. 10004, U.S. general' agents of

HDW, has announced that the Board of Di- rectors of Bowaldtswerke-Deutsphe Werft

A.G., at its September meeting im Kiel, decided 'to expand its shipbuilding facilities in Kiel-

Gaarden to allow for construction of vessels up to 700,000 dwt.

The Kiel-Gaarden Shipyard was the first Ger- man yard capable of building vessels up to 236,000 dwt. Construction of the new graving dock represents another step in the shipyard's plan, announced in early 1972, to concentrate its main shipbuilding activities in Kiel.

The new graving dock constitutes an ex- pansion of the present dock No. 8, making the new dock about 1,312 feet long, about 262 feet wide and about 33 feet deep. The expansion plan also provides for the installation of a new crane with an outreach of 535 feel: and a capacity of about 900 tons. Construction will begin early in 1974 with completion of the dock scheduled for mid-1976.

HDW will continue the construction of spe- cialized vessels and the Board of Directors have also decided to allocate additional funds for investment in their Hamburg facilities.

Tilston Roberts Opens Offices

In Philadelphia & Baltimore

Tilston Roberts Corp. of New York, N.Y., has opened offices in Philadelphia, Pa., and

Baltimore, Md. The company represents Lloyd

Brasilei'ro, National Shipping Corp. of Pakis- tan, Portuguese 'Line, Forest Lines and Atlan

Line.

Donald Marks, formerly general manager for the South Atlantic Steamship Agency and

Philadelphia manager for States Marine Isth- mian Line, manages the Philadelphia office.

The manager in (Baltimore will be George G.

Everett.

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