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SNAME Chesapeake Section Hears Paper On

Commercial / Government Program Management System

Pictured at the Chesapeake Section meeting, left to right: Eugene Miller, Hydronautics, Inc.; J.B. Bingham, General

Electric Co.; Saul M. Kaplan, author. General Electric Co.; Seth Hawkins, chairman, Chesapeake Section; James

Higgins, moderator, MarAd; Phillip Eisenberg, president, SNAME and Hydronautics, Inc., and Ronald Kiss, section

Secretary-treasurer, MarAd.

The Chesapeake Section of The Society of

Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held the sixth meeting of its technical program on March 5, 1974, at the Waker Reed Hospital

Officers' Qui) in Washington, D.C.

Following the social hour and dinner, which were enjoyed by approximately 60 members and guests, chairman Seth Hawkins opened the meeting iby welcoming those in attendance and especially noting the president of S'NAME,

Phillip Eisenberg. Mr. Eisenberg really needs no introduction to the membership of the

Chesapeake Section because he has been a most active member and past officer in the

Section for many years. Mr. Hawkins then introduced the moderator for the technical ses- sion, James Higgins, Deputy Assistant Ad- ministrator for Commercial 'Development,

Maritime Administration. Mr. Higgins has had a long and distinguished Government ca- reer and has ibeen active in the MarAd Re- search and Development Program for approxi- mately 20 years. He introduced the author of the paper, Saul Kaplan, as Manager, Mar-

Ad Project and Heavy Fuels Program, Gas

Turbine Products Division of the General

Electric Co. The title of his paper is "A Com- mercial/Government Program Management

System—One That Works."

Mr. Kaplan commenced his presentation by giving a general overview of the MarAd/Gen- eral Electric Gas Turbine R&D Project, in which the management system was (being uti- lized. This unique program management sys- tem was developed for application in a com- mercial product development-oriented envi- ronment. The management system represents one very tangible attainment of the project, for which it was expressly developed and has been successfully applied—a program whose costs were shared equally between a Govern- ment agency and a commercial market-oriented corporation. The management concept has been evolved around (1) a substantial revision of a previous INPUT/OUTPUT management control system and features a new technique for measuring effectiveness; and (2) the con- current development of the Project Overall

Status Summary that provides executive evalu- ations of project performance relative to goals.

The "overall effectivity" formation developed provides a means for evaluating trends in the

R&D project performance. The Project Over- all Status Summary has proved itself to be an effective means for assessing the status of the project performance goals and describing technical accomplishments. This system has provided an effective means for improved R&D project management.

At the conclusion of the paper, a lively dis- cussion ensued regarding performance meas- urements, penalties for under-expendit»res and the difficulties of avoiding a "numbers game." However, as a result of this paper and discussion, the membership was made aware that an effective project management system was available and working to measure the performance erf an extensive R&D program.

Global Shipservices

Forms New Company

Electrolux Gotaverken Global Shipservices,

EGGS and Nico International have concluded an agreement. concerned with cooperation which implies the establishment of a joint limited com- pany .known as EGGS-Nico International Ship- services AB.

The new company is primarily to concen- trate on the marketing of the goods and serv- ices offered to international shipping by EGGS and Nico, product development within the service range and also the coordination of standards, conditions and similar factors for the activities carried out by the two individual parties, EGGS and Nico International.

The new company is to have its activities located in Goteborg, and it is expected to be fully developed by the beginning of 1975.

AB Electrolux and AB Gotaverken have to- gether formed Electrolux Gotaverken Global

Shipservices, EGGS, in order to create an or- ganization which provides international ship- ping with cleaning and repair services. When it is fully developed, EGGS will consist of about 10 foreign subsidiary companies. •Nicoverken AB, a Goteborg company, has built up an international group of companies known as Nico International, which provide repair and service facilities to international shipping with great success. Nico Internation- al carries on- its activities in Las Palmas, Lis- bon, Rotterdam and Goteborg, and there are also sales offices in London, New York and

Rio de Janeiro.

FM. Clifford Agencies

Opens New Offices

The opening of the new offices of F.M.

Clifford Agencies, Inc., in the Bourse Build- ing, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa., has been announced by Frank Clifford.

The company will handle all phases of rep- resentation for shipowners, operators, charter- ers and agents.

Burrard Dry Dock Receives $6-Million Contract To Build 385-Ft. Railcar Transporter •

Designed by Talbot-Jackson & Associates Ltd., Van- couver, the new vessel will be powered by two General

Motors EMD-645E 16-cylinder diesels, each rated 2,875 bhp at 900 rpm.

Burrard Dry Dock Company Ltd., Vancouver,

British Columbia, has been awarded a contract valued at $6.3 million to construct an ice- strengthened railcar transporter capable of carry- ing 26 fifty-foot railway cars. The 385-foot vessel will be jointly owned by Incan Ships Lim- ited, and Quebec and Ontario Paper Company

Ltd., and will operate year-round between termi- nals to be constructed at Quebec City and Baie

Comeau.

The new transporter, when placed in operation in the summer of 1975, will be used by CP Rail to extend its network to the north shore of the lower St. Lawrence River.

Loaded capacity of the 6,060-ton railcar car- rier is 1,820 tons of newsprint. The transporter is expected to average more than "three trips per week.

Seatrain Lines Elects

Russell And Goodchild

Stephen Russell Anthony A. Goodchild

Seatrain Lines, Inc. has elected Stephen

Russell as a director, executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Anthony A.

Goodchild as a director of the company, it was recently announced by Howard M. Pack, presi- dent. (Mr. Russell has been executive vice presi- dent of the Hertz Corporation, responsible for its truck and equipment renting and leasing operation. Previously, he had been vice presi- dent of financial analysis for RCA Corporation and a group director and senior manager with the Ford Motor Co. where, among various product planning and financial responsibilities, he directed the development of the Pinto auto- mobile. A trustee of City Investing Realty

Trust and a member of the- board of the Pri- vate Carrier Conference and CATRAUA, the vehicle renting industry organization, Mr. Rus- sell received his graduate degree in finance and marketing and his undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics, both at Cornell

University.

Mr. Goodchild is currently a group vice president off TU International Corporation with responsibility for directing the activities of its Energy Systems Group, comprising most of IU''s manufacturing companies in the Unit- ed States and overseas. Mr. Goodchild was born and educated in England and came to the United States in 1956. 27 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News