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Five Firms Launch

Maritime Data System

A worldwide computer network has been launched by five firms in a joint venture which provides clients with maritime industry information.

Lloyd's Register of Shipping,

Lloyd's of London Press Limited,

Phs. Van Ommeren International

B.V., Fairfield International Corp.

PACIFIC SHIPYARDS CORPORATION

SHIPYARDS: LOS ANGELES - SEATTLE

A subsidiary of Todd Shipyards Corporation and Marine Management Systems,

Inc. have sponsored the new en- deavor. Maritime Data Network

Ltd. is a development of an on- line computer service introduced by Marine Management Systems last year.

Users of the new system can dial a local telephone number linking them to the terminal on- line and type requests for an in- stant printout on data sought.

In the case of a charterer seek- ing a vessel, he will be provided with a fixture file for current rates within a size range, vessel characteristics and a file on cas- ualty returns for reported ship problems.

According to the joint an- nouncement, the new facility will provide worldwide shipping inter- ests instant access to data files on most worldwide shipping, vessel movements, fixtures and tanker casualty returns.

The announcement adds that the service will eventually be ex- panded to include ship sales infor- mation, builder, owner, director and port information.

The new company will initially have headquarters in the Stam- ford, Conn., offices of Marine

Management Systems.

Santa Fe Engineering

Names Billy Ennis VP

Billy M. Ennis

Billy M. Ennis has been pro- moted to vice president of Santa

Fe Engineering & Construction

Co., and assigned to company headquarters in Orange, Calif., as operations manager-marine construction.

For the past five years, Mr.

Ennis was assigned to the com- pany's offshore construction and pipelaying operations in the North

Sea. He was North Sea area man- ager in Leith, Scotland, since Sep- tember 1976.

In his new assignment, Mr.

Ennis will have responsibility for all Santa Fe construction and pipelaying vessels in both the

North Sea and the Gulf of Mex- ico, including the reel ship Apache currently under construction in

Galveston, Texas. He will continue to report to Ben B. Creel, senior vice president and general man- ager of marine construction.

Mr. Ennis is a 1959 civil engi- neering graduate of Texas Tech- nological College, and worked for a major oil company on the U.S.

Gulf Coast for 13 years before joining Santa Fe.

Gary L. Matlock succeeded Mr.

Ennis as area manager in the

North Sea.

Santa Fe Engineering & Con- struction Co. is a subsidiary of

Santa Fe International Corp.

Hydronautics Receives $3,625,220 Contract

Hydronautics, Inc., 7210 Pindell

School Road, Laurel, Md. 20810, is receiving a $3,625,220 negoti- ated cost plus fixed fee contract to install Government furnished experimental gas turbine engines in a modified 95-foot fast patrol craft (PTF) and provide associ- ated conversion support, engi- neering support, spare parts and data. Work will be performed at

Laurel, Md. and Arlington, Va.

The Naval Sea Systems Command is the contracting activity.

Two football fields long,five stories high

Not one, but four Todd yards—Galveston, Houston,

Los Angeles, and Seattle—are expert barge builders, which makes possible unique flexibility for you in buying, scheduling, and building location. If you need barges, talk to Todd. We deliver custom-built barges at assembly-line costs. At top speed.

That's some huge barge. In fact, she's the biggest one

Todd Seattle ever built: she measures 495'x85'x48', and carries phosphate rock—up to 22,500 tons of it at a clip—out of the Gulf of Mexico. FAUSTINA is the first of two barges built by Todd for the Agrico

Chemical Company of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

SHIPYARDS CORPORATION

SHIPYARDS: BROOKLYN - NEW ORLEANS - GALVESTON

HOUSTON • SAN FRANCISCO

Executive offices: One State Street Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004. (212) 344-6900. Cable: Robin New York

DESIGNERS & PLANNERS, INC. (Naval Architects): New York - Galveston - Washington, D.C.

A subsidiary of Todd Shipyards Corporation 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News