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National Cargo Bureau

Opens Branch Office In

Corpus Christi, Texas

National Cargo Bureau, Inc. has announced the opening of its branch office in Corpus Christi,

Texas.

Capt. Billy Anderson has been appointed senior surveyor at Cor- pus Christi. He attended the U.S.

Merchant Marine Academy at

Kings Point, N.Y., in 1941 and 1942, and has been employed by the Bureau since 1966 on the staff at Houston, Texas.

The mailing address and tele- phone number will be: P.O. Box 9022, Corpus Christi, Texas 78408 — (512) 882-4772. The office is located at 606 Wilson Building.

National Cargo Bureau is a nationwide nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the safe stowage, securing and unloading of cargo on all vessels for the purpose of claims prevention. It formulates recommendations to

Government on safe stowage of dangerous goods and other car- goes, and offers low-cost cargo inspection service (breakbulk and containers) and inspection of car- go-handling gear. The Bureau al- so performs nautical inspections for Liberian and Panamanian-flag vessels.

Unequalled record of performance . . . • Pearlson Engineering is the ONLY company in the world devoted exclusively to the design and supply of shiplift systems. • There are 122 Syncrolifts in 54 countries. • 26 nations' navies use Syncrolifts. • More than 150,000 vessels have been docked and transferred by Syncrolifts throughout the world. • Syncrolifts are used for launching newly constructed vessels as well as for ship repair work. sanBRDUPi DRYDOCKS AND TRANSFER SYSTEMS

A Product of

PEARLSON ENGINEERING CO. INC.

Miami Office:

P.O. Box 560008, 8970 S.W. 87th Court

Miami, Florida 33156 U.S.A

Phone: 305/271-5721

Telex: 051-9340

Cable: SYNCROLIFT

London Office: 17 Devonshire St.

London W1N 1FS, U.K.

Phone: 323-2855

Telex: 23717

A. DUBAI, UAE: Concrete caissons weigh- ing 4,000 tons launched on Syncrolift.®

Assembly line construction in transfer area.

B. LAS PALMAS, CANARY ISLANDS: 27,400 DWT vessel, Cobetas, 183 m. long being transferred to parking area from

Syncrolift®

C. PUERTO CABELLO, VENEZUELA: 30,500 DWT vessel constructed in two sec- tions on land. Each is launched separately on Syncrolift® and the two sections are welded together in the water.

Swedish Consul General

Launches Stal-Laval's

Ocean-To-Ocean Service

In a ribbon-cutting ceremony held in Long Beach, Calif., on

December 2, Mrs. Cecelia Nettel- brandt, Swedish Consul General for the Western U.S., and John

A. Albino, vice president of Stal-

Laval, Inc., officially opened Stal-

Laval's newest facility.

Shown at ribbon-cutting ceremony, left to right: Bo Kordel, Pacific Division dis- trict manager; Mrs. Cecelia Nettelbrandt,

Swedish Consul General for Western

U.S., and John Albino, vice president.

The Pacific Division is the lat- est of four Stal-Laval operations in the U.S. linking the Atlantic,

Gulf Coast, and Pacific ports with a single service responsibility.

Other offices and service shops are located in Elmsford, N.Y. (headquarters), and Houma, La., with a district office in Houston,

Texas.

The newest facility was devel- oped to service the marine indus- try in turbines, hydraulic deck cranes, oil separators, and refrig- eration equipment. A service shop is operational, and an inventory of spare parts is maintained.

Stal-Laval, Inc. is the U.S. sub- sidiary of Stal-Laval Turbin AB,

Finspong, Sweden, one of the world's leading manufacturers of marine steam turbines. It is also the U.S. service representative for Hagglund Cranes, Stal Re- frigeration, and Alfa-Laval Sep- arators.

Ask Title XI To Build

Passenger-Carrying

Self-Propelled Barge

Mare Island Ferry, Georgia

Street Wharf, Vallejo, Calif., has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construc- tion of a self-propelled, passenger- carrying barge.

The applicant plans to use the vessel to ferry civilian and mili- tary personnel between Mare Is- land Naval Shipyard and Vallejo.

It will replace the three existing vessel's now used by Mare Island

Ferry in this service.

The cost of the passenger- carrying barge is estimated to be approximately $425,000. A con- tract for construction of the ves- sel has not yet been awarded. 24 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News