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$5.7-Million Barge And

Tug To Be Built—

Title XI Requested

Morania Barge No. 470, Inc., 136 East 57th Street, New York,

N.Y., has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of one bulk oil barge and one oceangoing twin-screw tugboat. The applicant is a sub- sidiary of Penn Industries of the same address.

Modern Marine Power, Inc.,

Houma, La., is the proposed build- er of the 116-foot, 4,000-horse- power tug, with delivery sched- uled for November 1980. S.B.A.

Shipyards, Jennings, La., is the proposed builder for the 383-foot oil barge, scheduled for delivery in June 1980. The tug and barge would be used in coastwise and intercoastal trade.

The estimated actual cost of the tug is $2,646,818, and that of the barge, $3,119,578. The Title XI guarantee, if approved, would be for 87V' percent of the total cost, or $4,000,000.

Wager Offers Free 46

Page Equipment Catalog

A new 46-page Marine Catalog issued by the Robert H. Wager

Co., Inc., provides current speci- fications and descriptive detail on the company's extensive line of

Wager vent valves and smoke indicators, and on a variety of boiler accessories.

These Wager boiler accessories include viewports, boiler inspec- tion lights, air-cooled stuffing boxes, and a normally open check valve that meets the require- ments of the USN and the USCG on air scavenger lines to soot blower steam piping on water tube boilers.

Specifications cover Wager vent valves available from 1 y2 inches to 12 inches, in a range of mate- rials, with or without covers; and smoke indicators supplied as vis- ual, photoelectric, or visual/photo- electric units. Also detailed in this catalog is the Wager Combustion

Optimizer, an electronic device designed to monitor and fine tune the air-fuel ratio of an automatic combustion control system.

For a free copy of the new

Wager Marine Catalog, write to

Michael Wager, Robert H. Wager

Co., Inc., Passaic Avenue, Chat- ham, N.J. 07928.

New Orleans Traffic & Transportation Bureau

Elects Officers

William J. St. John Jr. has been reelected to a second term as pres- ident of the New Orleans Traffic and Transportation Bureau. Mr.

St. John, senior vice president of

W.R. Zanes & Co., was elected at the bureau's annual meeting at the New Orleans Board of Trade.

Other officers for 1980 are

Philip G. Kuehn, president, New

Orleans Cold Storage and Ware-

April 1, 1980 house Co., Ltd., first vice presi- dent ; Chris S. Larsen, vice presi- dent, Central Gulf Lines, Inc., second vice president, and Wil- liam A. Reeder, retired, New Or- leans Public Service Inc.

New members of the bureau's board of directors are Charles R.

Dixon, president, Survey, Inc.;

Lt. Gov. James E. Fitzmorris;

Andrew F. Flores, director, Lou- isiana Department of Commerce and Industry; John Meghrian,

Todd Shipyards Corp., and Mrs.

Paula L. Maher, president for ad- ministration, Bergeron Industries,

Inc.

The bureau is a nonprofit agen- cy concerned with the improve- ment of all aspects of product shipping and distribution in the

New Orleans, La., area. It oper- ates as a supportive force of the port and area economy in the es- tablishment of competitive pric- ing of transportation and service patterns, and assists members on the purchase of transportation services. The bureau makes pres- entations before federal and state agencies dealing with transporta- tion and shipping.

General manager Greg R. Perry reported a marked increase in re- quests for the bureau's informa- tion and services. He said he an- ticipates continued brisk activity due to changes being discussed in government transport regulations.

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