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Members of the committee planning the three-day conference and exhibit "Marine Weather and

Ocean Systems—Today and To- morrow," which will be held at the Downtown Athletic Club, New

York City, September 14-16, gather around a world globe, sym- bolizing the international aspects of the atmosphere and oceans of the world, following one of their meetings in New York City re- cently.

Sponsored by the Maritime As- sociation of the Port of New York, the first comprehensive three-day conference and exhibit to be held in downtown Manhattan will fea- ture panels of individuals from industry and government agencies expert on weather systems and equipment.

The panels will conduct semi- nars on such subjects as Ship

Routing, Currents, Weather

Equipment, Harbor and Coastal

Weather, Ice, Facsimile, Heavy

Weather, and Future Plans.

Exhibits will be on display by internationally renown manufac- turers of weather equipment and systems utilized by shipping com- panies for efficiency of vessel op- erations and safety of lives and cargo at sea.

Seen above are, left to right:

Robert Ragusso, Bendix Marine

Science Services; Lawrence W.

Moore, Sea-Land Service, Inc. (con- ference chairman) ; Armand Bou- chard, Alden Electronic & Impulse

Recording Co., Inc.; Winfield Syl- vester, professor, Rutgers Univer- sity; Dr. Kirill Chekotillo, Acting

Chief Section for Sea and Ocean

Affairs, United Nations, and Ray- mond Yturraspe, Griffith Marine

Navigation, Inc. (exhibit chair- man) .

ELEVENTH IN KOCKUMS SERIES—The eleventh vessel in Kock- ums Shipyard's series of 355,000-ton tankers has been delivered to a shipping partnership headed by the Lars Krogh & Co. Lines, Koppang,

Norway, from the Kockums yard in Malmo, Sweden. The ship has been christened Wind Eagle, and is an oil tanker weighing 357,400 dwt.

The main dimensions of the vessel are length overall, 1,188 feet; breadth, 197 feet, and draft, 73 feet. Wind Eagle is propelled by a

Kockums-Stal Laval steam turbine that develops 40,000 hp. Total cargo capacity amounts to 442,000 cubic meters, divided among 29 tanks. Wind Eagle has been built for worldwide traffic to the highest class in Det norske Veritas. The vessel is the eleventh in a series of fourteen 355,000-dwt tankers. The next ship in the series is also being built for Lars Krogh & Co., Norway. director of Airfilco Marine Sys- tems, Ltd. in the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Marine

Division of Airfilco for the supply of the inert gas systems and pack- aged generators.

Since 1972, he has been involved in the specialist field of Tanker

Safety Equipment, and was for- merly a superintendent engineer with the British and Common- wealth Shipping Company based in London.

Airfilco considers Mr. Riley's long Tanker Safety Equipment background, plus his seagoing and ship repair experience, an impor- tant asset during the forthcoming program for retrofitting inert gas systems, both on existing ships and for new construction.

Mr. Riley served his apprentice- ship in marine engineering and naval architecture in the United

Kingdom. He studied marine and mechanical engineering at the Uni- versity of Surrey, sponsored by the Institute of Marine Engineers, and graduated with honors in 1967. He then returned to sea ob- taining his first class license for steam and motor ships in 1969.

Airfilco Engineering

Names John E. Riley

VP And Gen'l Manager

John E. Riley

William B. Alexander, president of Airfilco Engineering, Inc. of

New Orleans, La., has announced the appointment of John E. Riley as vice president and general man- ager of the company.

Airfilco Engineering, Inc. is a gas process equipment supplier specializing in the design and in- stallation of inert gas systems, on new and existing tankers.

Until joining Airfilco Engineer- ing, Inc., Mr. Riley was technical

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