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Dredge Technology

Announces Contracts

Dredge Technology Corpora- tion, a company owned jointly by

IHC Holland and John J. McMul- len Associates, Inc., has been se- lected to provide dredging equip- ment for the new dredge Eagle I, owned by Eagle Dredging Corpo- ration, a joint venture of Royal

Adriaan Volker Company of Rot- terdam, Holland, and C.F. Bean

Company in New Orleans, La.

This order covers most of the dredging system for the vessel and is valued at several million dollars. The preliminary and con- tract designs for this ship were prepared by Dredge Technology

Corp., utilizing the services of

McMullen Associates and IHC

Holland.

At the same time, Dredge Tech- nology announced receipt of a con- tract for the preliminary design of a new split hull trailing suction hopper dredge for T.L. James &

Company of Ruston, La. This ship design will also be a joint effort by IHC Holland and McMullen

Associates, with IHC Holland pre- paring the preliminary design and

McMullen Associates preparing the contract design to U.S. stand- ards.

John J. McMullen Associates,

Inc. is one of the world's leading firms of naval architects, marine ®

KAWASAKI'S

Speciality is Super Technology

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IHC Holland is the largest sup- plier of dredges and dredging equipment in the world. Dredge

Technology Corporation is located at One World Trade Center, New

York, N.Y. 10048.

Worthington Compressors

Names Hands President

The appointment of Geoffrey

VV. Hands as president and chief operating officer of Worthington

Compressors, Inc., Holyoke, Mass., effective January 1,1979, has been announced.

Geoffrey W. Hands

Mr. Hands, presently president of Worthington-Turbodyne Inter- national, Inc., Brussels, Belgium, will be headquartered at Worth- ington Compressors' corporate headquarters in Holyoke, accord- ing to O.E. Powers, chairman and chief executive, who made the announcement.

Mr. Hands joined Turbodyne

Corporation as chief financial of- ficer in December 1973. In Janu- ary 1977, he was appointed presi- dent of Worthington-Turbodyne

International, Inc., when all in- ternational activities of both the

Compressor and Turbodyne com- panies were placed under a single management, including manufac- turing, marketing and sales. He is a certified pubilc accountant, and received his A.B. degree from

Dartmouth College and his MBA degree from Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Prior to joining Turbodyne, he was as- sociated with McKinsey and Com- pany, and Arthur Andersen & Co.

Gdynia America Line

Names Eccles And Mullen

Gdynia America Line, Inc., gen- eral agents for Polish Ocean

Lines, has announced the ap- pointments of Walter Eccles and

Gregory F. Mullen as account managers in their Sales and Mar- keting Department.

Mr. Eccles joined Gdynia Amer- ica Line, Inc., after having previ- ously served Funch Edye & Co.,

America Mail Line, Kerr Steam- ship Co. and most recently, Bar- ber Steamship Co. in the capacity of sales and traffic representative.

Mr. Mullen was previously as- sociated with Seatrain Agencies

Inc., and Boise Griffin Steamship

Co., Inc., in sales/marketing ca- pacity. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News