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COMSAT General Expands

MARISAT Services To

Entire Indian Ocean

An agreement signed by COM-

SAT General Corporation has opened the way for the start of construction this year of a shore station in Japan to operate with the Indian Ocean MARISAT sat- ellite.

The station, expected to be com- pleted in the summer of 1978, will be the first MARISAT station to be constructed outside of the Unit- ed States, and the first to operate at commercial frequencies with the Indian Ocean satellite.

It will extend MARISAT serv- ices to ships and offshore facilities throughout the entire Indian Oce- an for the first time, significantly expanding the MARISAT System to provide full coverage over the three major oceans of the world.

Other MARISAT satellites pres- ently serve the Atlantic and Pa- cific Ocean areas.

Under terms of an agreement between Kokusai Denshin Denwa

Co., Ltd. (KDD) of Japan, and

COMSAT General, Manager of the MARISAT System, KDD will use capacity in the Indian Ocean satellite to provide modern tele- phone, telex and other public com- munications to maritime inter- ests.

KDD will build a shore station at Yamaguchi. The start of com- mercial service through this new station and the Indian Ocean sat- ellite next year will close a gap in coverage of the MARISAT Sys- tem between the Straits of Malac- ca and the Persian Gulf.

The Atlantic and Pacific MAR-

ISAT satellites have been provid- ing high-quality telex, telephone, facsimile and data communica- tions at commercial frequencies to ships and offshore facilities at sea in those ocean areas for the past year.

The number of ships and off- shore rigs now equipped with terminals for operation with

MARISAT totals about 65. Of this total, 53 are equipped with

COMSAT General mobile termin- als, and 27 additional COMSAT

General terminals have been or- dered for installation in the near future.

U.S. Lines Names

Three In Operations

Kenneth W. Gundling, vice president-marine, United States

Lines, has announced three ap- pointments to the division.

Capt. Leonard H. Pert has been appointed to the position of as- sistant marine superintendent.

Mr. Pert joined the company in 1956 as a pier superintendent in

New York. He was subsequently promoted to manager-terminal operations and then to superin- tendent-cargo operations. In 1969, he was transferred to the Euro- pean Division as manager of

London Area Terminals. He re- turned to the United States in 1971 as safety director, and in 1973 he was promoted to oper- ations manager-East Coast Di- vision.

John E. DeValue was appointed to the post of superintendent steward. He joined the company in 1946 as inventory clerk, and was subsequently promoted to chief food checker and then to assistant to the assistant super- intendent steward. In 1961, he was promoted to the position of assistant superintendent steward, and served in that capacity until his promotion to superintendent steward.

Hans Stockfish has been ap- pointed to the position of assist- ant superintendent steward. He served at sea for many years and was formerly chef on the S/S

United States, once owned by the containerliner firm which now operates a fleet of 38 modern vessels including 16 high-speed, high-capacity containerships in its 15,000-mile, Tri-Continent

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States, Panama, Costa Rica, Ha- waii, Guam and Far East and

Southeast Asian ports.

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