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American Hydromath

Receives Contract For

Cargo Planning Computers

American Hydromath Compa- ny, Germantown, N.Y., recently delivered three LOADOSCOPE

Cargo Planning Computers to the

American Heavy Lift Shipping

Company, a division of Gulf Trad- ing & Transportation Company; one each for the John Henry and 0

Paul Bunyan, and one to be placed and used in the main office.

These vessels are capable of transporting and delivering car- goes having unit weights up to 1,000 tons to developed ports, and because of shallow draft, to re- mote and primitive areas.

LOADOSCOPE, a solid-state electronic special-purpose comput- er, automatically calculates and simultaneously displays draft fore and aft, GM required and avail- able, including free surface and

KG corrections, the angle of heel, deadweight, and the allowable bending stress or shear stress which a ship will have under any assumed load distribution. The se- lection of stress is made by posi- tioning a toggle switch and of deadweight, ballast, fuel oil or cargo by keyboard switches. All three centers of gravity, the X,

Y, and Z coordinates of the load are taken into account, as inputs.

An alphanumeric printer gives the operator a hard copy of all in- puts and outputs. LOADOSCOPE acts as a situation display board.

For free literature describing

LOADOSCOPE Loading Com- puters, write Robert M. Kristal,

American Hydromath Company,

Box 299, Buckwheat Bridge Road,

Germantown, N.Y. 12526.

Atlantic Container Line

Opens Baltimore Office

Atlantic Container Line has opened a full-service office in Bal- timore, Md., it was recently an- nounced by O.I.M. Porton, pres- ident.

The new office occupies 4,100 square feet at 5 Light Street.

Staffing the new office are

Thomas W. Wojcio, traffic man- ager; Richard Amato, documen- tation manager; and Jeffrey J.

Chokov, booking and equipment control manager.

It was also announced that Mo- torships Inc., ACL's agent for handling car shipments between

Europe and the United States, will open its own office at Balti- more's Dundalk Marine Terminal.

Port Houston Marine

Offers Services And

Facilities Brochure

A full-color brochure is avail- able describing the facilities and services of Port Houston Marine,

Inc., Houston, Texas.

Port Houston Marine, Inc. is located at the turning basin of

Houston Ship Channel, and has a berth for vessels up to 600 feet long and 20-foot draft. Com- pressed air, water and electric power supplies are provided.

Workshops totaling 25,000 square feet are available, equipped with overhead cranes, welding equip- ment, plate roller and a wide range of machine tools. Around- the-clock service is offered for both scheduled and emergency re- pairs; the company carries out all types of repair, including diesel engine repairs. Tank cleaning is also offered.

Port Houston Marine, Inc. was recently acquired by the Aker

Group of Norway. Following the acquisition, Aker appointed Bjorn

A. Henriksen president of the company. Prior to his appoint- ment in Houston, Mr. Henriksen was manager of the Oslo office of

Bergens Mek Verksted, another

Aker Group company well-known for its Bergen diesel engines and

Norwich hydraulic winches. Port

Houston Marine, Inc. is now un- dertaking full service of these products.

For a copy of the brochure, write Bjorn A. Henriksen, Port

Houston Marine, Inc., P.O. Box 5445, Houston, Texas 77012.

This new system provides every kind of navigation information imaginable: loran LOP's and latitude/longitude coordinates, date and time in GMT, ground speed and course made good, range and bearing to destination and/or 9 waypoints, chart scale, cursor lines, steer- ing information... all electronically, instantly, with optional printer to record information automatically.

Furuno's loran equipment, like all Furuno products, is the result of more than 30 years experience in supplying commercial quality electronics to commercial vessel operators. For complete information on this exceptional new system, just visit any of our more than 200 dealer outlets all over North America.

Don't just buy a loran, invest in Furuno.

FURUNO U.S.A., INC.

P.O. Box 2343.271 Harbor Way, South San Francisco. CA 94080

Tel. 415-873-9393/Telex 331419

Furuno. Choice of the professionals.

Furuno loran. Navigator's dream come true.

Whether you're looking for a specific offshore platform or a particular fishing ground, Furuno's new loran system will get you there faster and more efficiently. 44 ZIDELL Maritime Reporter/Engineering News