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B&W To Test Coal-Oil

Slurry Fuels Aboard Ship

Babcock and Wilcox Co. will perform shipboard testing of coal-oil slurry fuels in a marine boiler. The at-sea testing will be preceded by limited shoreside combustion characterization tests to optimize the slurry fuel coal concentration and size. Sea tests will be performed aboard the

Cleveland Cliffs vessel Edward B.

Greene.

Hitachi Zosen To Build

Its First Semisubmersible

Rig For U.S. Company

Hitachi Zosen recently received an order for one semisubmersible offshore oil drilling rig from Pen- rod Drilling Company, a member of the Hunt Group of Companies.

The rig is the first semisub- mersible one to be ordered from

Hitachi Zosen. An Enhanced

Pacesetter type designed by

Friede & Goldman, Ltd., U.S.A., the rig is capable of operating at water depths of up to 457 me- ters (1,500 feet). It can drill to a maximum depth of 7,620 me- ters (25,000 feet).

Including this order, Hitachi

Zosen has received three orders from members of the Hunt Group.

Of the 14 orders for jackup type rigs, two are now under construc- tion for Offshore Investments

Limited, also of the Hunt Group.

After delivery in July 1982, the rig will be chartered by Oc- cidental Petroleum Corporation and will be operated in Austra- lian waters.

Jones Elected VP-

Marine Superintendent

Of Farrell Lines

James P. Horn, president of

Farrell Lines Incorporated, has announced that Thomas Jones Jr., formerly marine superintendent, has been elected vice president- marine superintendent. Mr. Jones is a graduate of the U.S. Mer- chant Marine Academy at Kings

Point, holding a Bachelor of Sci- ence degree in marine engineer- ing. He sailed with the former

Isbrandtsen Lines in various ca- pacities up to and including chief engineer, before joining Farrell

Lines in 1978 as port engineer.

C.R. Thompson Joins

Parsons Brinckerhoff As

Coal-Handling Specialist

Claude R. Thompson

Claude R. Thompson, a retired

U.S. Coast Guard captain with 35 years of marine engineering ex- perience, recently joined Parsons

Brinckerhoff, the New York-based engineering, architectural, and planning firm. As a specialist in ports and dry bulk materials fa- cilities, he will be involved in ex- panding the firm's role in the de- sign of coal transshipment facil- ities along the Gulf Coast and the

Atlantic Seaboard. Mr. Thompson will work out of the firm's Mc-

Lean, Va., office.

L.R. Gilberti To Head

Liquid Products Sales

For Dravo Mechling

Louis R. Gilberti has been ap- pointed sales manager, liquid products, for Dravo Mechling

Corporation, the barge line sub- sidiary of Dravo Corporation. He will have overall responsibility for Dravo Mechling liquid sales activities.

Mr. Gilberti joined Dravo Mech- ling in 1956, and has served in various operations sales positions.

Dravo Mechling, one of the na- tion's largest barge lines, pro- vides common and contract tow- ing service on the inland river system and the Gulf Intracoastal

Waterway.

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A down-to-earth view of container shipping

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