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Crowley Orders Two

Additional Triple-Deck

Barges From FMC

Crowley Maritime Corp. has or- dered construction of two addi- tional 580-foot, triple-deck barges for the Caribbean roll-on/roll-off service operated by its subsidiary,

Trailer Marine Transport Corp.

Carrying up to 374 forty-foot trailers each, the new barges will be identical to Crowley's La Reina which completed its maiden voy- age in the Caribbean last May. A second triple-deck barge, El Con- quistador, is already under con- struction at the Marine and Rail

Equipment Division of FM'C Corp. in Portland, Ore., and will be de- livered to TMT in the fall.

Work on the two additional barges is expected to get under- way in September, with delivery of the first scheduled for summer 1979. The second will be deliv- ered by the end of 1979.

The La Reina and five double- decked barges are now used by

TMT to provide roll-on / roll-off service from Jacksonville, Miami and Lake Charles to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Leeward and Windward Islands, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic.

NO MATTER WHETHER • routine dry-dockings or lengthenings • harbour repairs or extensive conversions • reconditioning of engine parts between voyagesormostdifficultengine repairs • "flying squad" services en-voyage or • maintenance of engine plants on a yearly contract basis a re concerned, all essential modern repair techniques are practised by BREMER VULKAN

FACILITIES - Large dock 331,60x57,46x7,70 m, 4501 crane - Floating dock 170x23x6m, 8 5001 lifting capacity _ Repair quays for simultaneous repair of several vessels, cranage up to 1501; floating crane - Repair base at Bremerhaven with floating dock

Machine shops with advanced techniques for any kind of efficient machining of heavy engine parts. Reconditioning of crankshafts in situ.

Licensee for MAN engines; Stal-Laval turbines;

Foster Wheeler and Babcock & Wilcox boilers.

BREIVJER VULKAN

SCHIFFBAU UND MASCHINENFABRIK

Bremen-Vegesack, W-Germany

P.O. Box 700240, Tel. (04 21) 66031, Ext. 3 32 o. 246, Telex: 2 44858 brvu d, Telegr.: Bremer Vulkan, Bremen

Represented for Repairs/Conversions in U.S. by:

T.A.S.T. Corporation, International Marine Representatives of 5 Farmstead Road, N. Caldwell, New Jersey 07006

Tel.: (201) 228-2870 — Telex: 138-644

International Paint

Names Robert Hartley

Robert A. Hartley has been named senior vice president, Tech- nical, North America, by the In- ternational Paint Company, Inc. (USA) and International Paints (Canada) Limited.

Trust your ships cincl machinery to the skilled hands of

Bremer Vulkan. Robert A. Hartley

Mr. Hartley will head up the

North American Group Labora- tories soon to be completed at the

Union, N.J., facility of Interna- tional Paint. This fully staffed and equipped technical setup will consolidate the product develop- ment activities in one place for the entire North American mar- ket, including the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Communication and information exchange with other

International Paint technical fa- cilities around the world will be enhanced.

Mr. Hartley is a native of Eng- land and holds a degree in chem- istry from the University of Lon- don. He has held various techni- cal positions in International Paint for over 20 years and has traveled extensively in North America and around the world. He is a member of The Royal Institute of Chem- istry, The National Association of

Corrosion Engineers, A. S. T. M., and The Society of Paint Tech- nology.

Contract Awarded To

Design SALM System

Ocean Resources Engineering,

Inc., 2060 North Loop West,

Houston, Texas 77018, has been awarded a contract by Exxon Pro- duction Research Company for the final structural and mechanical design of a SALM (Single Anchor

Leg Mooring) System for Shell

U.K. Exploration and Production (Operator), and for Esso Explora- tion and Production U.K. for the

Fulmar Field in the North Sea.

The facility will accommodate a nominal 200,000-dwt storage tank- er, which will remain permanently moored in a water depth of 270 feet.

Harry J. Sweet & Associates and H.O. Mohr & Associates will support Ocean Resources Engi- neering with finite element anal- yses and with special design of mechanical components. The de- sign effort will be accomplished in Houston under the oversight of

Exxon Production Research Com- pany, and will be ready for con- struction bidding this winter. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News