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Atlantic Sandblasting

Opens Houston Office

Atlantic Sandblasting & Coatings, Inc. vice president of sales and marketing Matthew

E. Clark Jr. has announced the opening of a branch Sales Office in Houston, Texas. At- lantic Sandblasting & Coatings Inc. has been in business for over 20 years in the field of marine tank and hull sandblasting and coating.

The office in Houston is located at 4433

Bissonet, Suite 201, Bellaire, Texas. Atlantic

Sandblasting & Coatings, Inc. also has branch offices in San Francisco, Calif., and New

York, N.Y.

G. Robert Sturges, manager of the Hous- ton area, has had 15 years' experience in the marine and offshore industry. lotron Corporation

Merges With Varo, Inc.

Varo, Inc., Garland, Texas, has announced that it has signed an agreement in principle with lotron Corporation of Boston, Mass., providing for the merger of lotron with Varo. lotron, located in Bedford, Mass., a Boston suburb, is a privately held, high technology company which was founded in 1969, and has developed and is manufacturing an inte- grated line of electronic navigation systems for oil tankers and other types of vessels.

Iotron's primary product is DIGIPLOT, a computerized collision avoidance radar sys- tem. The system automatically acquires and continually plots the courses and relative positions of ships and other obstructions in a given area, and displays this information

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Write For Complete Catalog D-661-MR on the ship's bridge so that a course can be steered to avoid collisions. The recently en- acted Port Safety and Tank Vessel Safety

Act empowers the Secretary of Transporta- tion to issue regulations requiring collision avoidance radar systems to be installed on all tankers and large vessels utilizing U.S. waters. Two hundred sixty-seven DIGIPLOTS have been sold, which is approximately 40 percent of all such systems sold to date.

Other lotron products include DIGINAV, a computerized integrated navigation system which automates all navigation functions, in- cluding fixing the DIGIPILOT, an automatic steering system which minimizes fuel con- sumption. DIGIDATA, an optional recorder, can be attached to the system to continuously record all navigation data for later analysis. lotron sales for its fiscal year ended

April 30, 1978 were approximately $5.4 million.

Headquartered in Garland, Texas, a Dallas suburb, Varo manufactures military night vision viewing systems, high voltage recti- fiers and multipliers used in consumer and industrial electronic products, frequency con- trol devices for the U.S. Navy, and marine searchlights. Varo sales for its fiscal year ended April 30, 1978 were approximately $79 million. Varo common shares are traded on both the New York and American Stock

Exchanges.

MarAd Releases Update

Of Vessel Inventory Report

The Maritime Administration has released the latest update of the Vessel Inventory

Report, a semiannual listing of U.S.-flag oceangoing merchant ships of 1,000 or more gross tons. The 56-page report contains an alphabetical roster of all such ships, whether privately or MarAd-owned, and lists each vessel's type, owner or operator, design type, and deadweight tonnage.

A second section provides a cross reference by listing alphabetically the owners and operators, together with their respective vessels. Listings of merchant and military vessels currently in the National Defense

Reserve Fleet are also provided.

The Vessel Inventory Report is available from the MarAd Office of Public Affairs,

Room 3895, Department of Commerce, Wash- ington, D.C. 20230.

ALCOA SUPPORTS ACADEMY PRO-

GRAMS — The Kings Point Fund of the

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni As- sociation has received a $1,000 Assistance

Grant from the Alcoa Foundation. Fund officials said the grant would be used to sup- port midshipman programs at the Academy such as the sailing team, the regimental band, a student loan program, and athletics.

These activities receive no appropriated Fed- eral funds. Shown presenting the grant to

Rear Adm. Arthur B. Engel, USCG (ret.),

Superintendent of the Academy, is C.G. Kis- kaddon Jr., president of Alcoa Steamship Co. reason to put our equipment to work for you. iiGnng<.niinoii6os2sUA». Maritime Reporter/Engineering News