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2,800-Ton Load On Barge

Towed 7,900 Miles From

Izmit, Turkey To Japan

A Global Transport Organi- sation barge loaded with dredge equipment recently arrived in

Yokohama, Japan, concluding a 7,900-mile voyage from Izmit,

Turkey, in some 45 days.

The dredge fleet, owned by the

Japanese dredging firm Aoki

Gumi, includes the dredge No. 1 Genkai, a hopper barge, pusher boat, work barge and two work- boats. This equipment and other cargo, 2,800 tons in all, were loaded aboard the 400 by 100- foot GTO barge Genmar 102, which was towed by a 9,000-hp

GTO tug. The tow averaged nearly 10 knots for the trip.

The dredge equipment will be utilized for the Bosphorus Sub- marine Pipeline-Crossing Project in Japan.

Global Transport Organisation,

San Francisco, Calif., is an in- ternational marine transporta- tion group uniting three prom- inent marine carriers. Member companies are Crowley Maritime

International, Federal Pacific

Limited and Genstar Overseas

Limited.

TTT Transfers Spano

From New Orleans To

Key Post In New York ; | fg^JI

Anthony J. Spano

Anthony J. Spano, vice presi- dent Gulf liner services and super- visor of the New Orleans, La., of- fice of TTT Ship Agencies, Inc., has been transferred to TTT's

New York City headquarters as vice president and assistant to the president, Robert F. Weiss.

Among his new duties, Mr.

Spano has overall responsibility for administration of TTT's 23

U.S. offices. He also supervises all

TTT claims activities, the TTT

Travel Service, and is responsible for the firm's corporate commu- nications.

Joining TTT in 1957, following service with the U.S. Air Force,

Mr. Spano served successively as line manager for several TTT principals in the New Orleans of- fice, freight department manager for all Gulf services, and as gen- eral manager of the firm's traffic division. He was elected a vice president in 1976.

Marine Concrete Structures

Relocates Headquarters

Marine Concrete Structures,

Inc., has moved its corporate headquarters to 2030 St. Charles

Avenue, New Orleans, La., Don

Payne, president, announced. All administrative, accounting, engi- neering, purchasing and sales of- fices are housed in this facility.

The move to its new two-story building was due to the rapidly expanding volume of business generated by the offshore oil in- dustry. "By having all our key people in one easily accessible central location, we will be able to meet with our customers more readily and render a faster serv- ice to satisfy their needs," Mr.

Payne said.

The company will maintain a field office at its Metairie, La., plant, which continues to produce concrete piling, Span-Deck con- crete planking, and other related products for the commercial and construction industries.

Marine Concrete Structures also has a 76-acre facility at Port Bien- ville, Miss., for constructing con- crete gravity structures of all types used in the production of oil in the Gulf Coast area, and a complete shipyard for building and handling barge/boat repairs.

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Following 20 years experience in UNDERWATER CLEANING of ships, the PHOCEENNE SOUS-MARINE/PHOSMARIN EQUIPMENT group of companies now ranks first in the world for this technology.

Hydraulic PHOSMARIN equipment is used in 38 countries and the new semi-automatic package "BRUSH KART", commercialized from 1975, is used in 20 cleaning stations along the major sea lanes, and more BK stations are to come.

The quality of underwater cleaning obtained with BRUSH KART is far better than anything else available: semi-automatic operation ensures a quality standard, nearing perfection, which BK offers alone.

A single diver can clean the VLCCs and ULCCs during very short calls, thanks to the velocity of operation.

Specially designed rotary brushes do not sever the coatings nor does

BRUSH KART deprive the weld beads of their protective coats.

Consequently, without any risk of corrosion — corrosion is highly ex- pensive — ship's underwater parts can be maintained afloat during many years thanks to this technology. Brushing can be performed as often as is required to ensure economical trading without speed loss. the current 'oil and hard cash savings' policy in most countries can only open attractive prospects to this technology, providing cleaning services are offered along the main sea routes throughout the world.

And this is a new target which PHOCEENNE SOUS-MARINE EQUIPMENT are concentrating upon currently.

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