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IHI Establishes

New Firm In Rotterdam

IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima Hea- vy Industries Co., Ltd.), a leading

Japanese shipbuilder-, has establish- ed a new company with a 100 per- cent investment in Rotterdam, the

Netherlands, with the purpose of expanding its business in Europe.

The new company, which has been named IHI Marine -B.V., is capitalized at one million guilders and will be mainly engaged in tech- nical services for ships operating in Europe. Almost all the busi- ness previously handled at IHI's

Rotterdam office will also be shift- ed to the new company. Kiyoshi

Kawasaki, manager of the Rotter- dam office, has been appointed rep- resentative director of IHI Marine

B.V.

The new company's main lines of business are: (1) Technical services — (a)

Technical services for ships oper- ating in the areas of Europe, the

Americas, Africa and the Middle

East: onboard consultation, super- vision of ship repairing work, in- spection of ships, and supply of spare parts, (b) Information serv- ice for ship repair. Information on ship repair work and docks avail- ability, and related business. (2) Agency—'(a) Agency for ship repair and construction, '(b) Sales, repair and agency services for ma- rine equipment and industrial ma- chinery.

Keene Corp. Names

Texas Marine For

Texas Gulf Area

Clint E. Wells

Texas Marine & Industrial Sup- ply Company, Houston, Texas, has been named a distributor for the

Keene Marine Discharge Control

System™ by Keene Corporation's

Fluid Handling Division, which manufactures the new sytetem.

Texas Marine & Industrial Sup- ply Company has been serving the commercial marine industry since 1938, when the company was founded. With branch operations in Shreveport, La., and Port Ar- thur, Texas, the company will sell, service, and supervise the installa- tion of the Keene system on cus- tomers' vessels operating in the entire Texas Gulf coastal area.

Texas Marine president Charles

C. Anderson has announced that

Clint E. Wells, vice president-mar- keting, will ibe in charge of all sales and service for the new Keene sys- tem.

In operation, the Keene Marine

Discharge Control System removes oil and other contaminants from a ship's bilge water and prevents oil contamination from entering water- ways, harbors, or the open sea.

Beginning July 1, 1974, the U.S.

Coast Guard is enforcing stringent new Federal regulations which pro- hibit discharge of fluids in U.S. navigable watefls "if such discharge causes a film or sheen on the sur- face of the water." Vessels equip- ped with the new Keene system will not only be able to avoid vio- lations, but will also be able to demonstrate their compliance with the system's special recorder and monitor. The system maintains a permanent record in the form of a printed paper chart showing the quality of water discharged over- board. This tape becomes a perma- nent part of the captain's log. (See complete description in the MARI-

TIME REPORTER/Engineering

News issue of April 15, 1974.)

Texas Marine & Industrial Com- pany's headquarters is located at 8050 Harrisburg Boulevard in

Houston, Texas.

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