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Captain Ecker Named CO

Of Coast Guard Inspection

Office In New Orleans

Capt. William J. Ecker

Capt. William J. Ecker recently relieved Capt. John M. Duke as

Commanding Officer, Marine In- spection Office, New Orleans. Cap- tain Duke was reassigned to the

Staff of the Commander, Eighth

Coast Guard District, in the ca- pacity of Chief of the Marine

Safety Division.

Captain Duke served as Com- manding Officer of the New Or- leans Marine Inspection Office from September 1978 to Novem- ber 1980. Captain Ecker served at the Marine Inspection Office,

New Orleans, in the capacity of

Executive Officer since July 1979 prior to being elevated to the po- sition of Commanding Officer.

P.T. Wingerter Named VP-

Marine Operations For

Delta Queen Steamboat

Patrick T. Wingerter has been named vice president of marine operations for The Delta Queen

Steamboat Company. He will be responsible for overseeing the navigational and engineering op- erations of the overnight paddle- wheel steamboats Delta Queen and Mississippi Queen, working out of the New Orleans office of the Cincinnati-based firm.

Most recently, Mr. Wingerter had served as the company's di- rector of marine operations. He joined DQSC in 1975, as manager of maintenance and planning, at which time he oversaw the com- pletion and entry into service of the Mississippi Queen.

Prior to joining the DQSC, he worked in maintenance and oper- ations for Overseas National Air- lines and served seven years in the U.S. Army as a helicopter pi- lot, achieving the rank of captain. $7.7 Million Authorized

For Improvements At

Newport News Terminal

The Virginia Port Authority has issued $10.3 million in New- port News Terminal Revenue

Bonds of 1980. The monies will be utilized to refinance the exist- ing indebtedness on Piers B and

C and to the City of Newport

News, and to make several im- provements to the terminal.

A portion of the $10.3-million bond and $3.9-million from a pre-

January 15, 1981 vious general obligation bond will provide more than $7.7 million to be used to construct an extension to the existing container berth at

Pier C, to construct a second con- tainer crane on the berth, and to create an additional 22 acres of open storage area.

The pier improvement involves constructing an extension of the present container berth to allow handling of the larger container- ships presently in use. The addi- tion will add nine bays, each ap- proximately 20-feet long, and will give the berth a new total length of 960 feet. The pier extension project has not as yet been sub- mitted for bids.

The container crane is of gen- eral-purpose design and will han- dle containers primarily, but it will also have the capability of handling heavy lifts up to 200 short tons. The storage area im- provements include installation of

Write 339 on Reader Service Card a surface and subsurface storm drainage system, subgrade and base construction of roadways and storage areas, asphalt sur- facing of roadways and storage areas, concrete crane runways, and concrete trailer landing strips. Completion of the crane is expected in January 1981; the storage area should be available for use in late May 1981; and the pier extension should be com- pleted in June 1981. 35

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