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NICOR Expands Offshore

Fleet With Acquisition Of

Two Additional Companies

NICOR Inc., Naperville, 111., chairman and president C.J.

Gauthier recently announced ac- quisition w'th NICOR common stock of two marine transporta- tion companies — Arthur Levy

Enterprises, Inc. and Offshore

Island Boats, Inc. These two com- panies along with Acadian Ma- rine Service Inc. will operate as

NICOR's offshore marine group.

This acquisition will place the offshore marine group among the top 10 offshore service fleets in the world.

Both Levy Enterprises and Off- shore Island Boats will operate 16 supply vessels from their Gulf of Mexico headquarters in Mor- gan City, La., providing logistical support to offshore oil and gas drilling rigs located in the U.S.

Gulf of Mexico. Arthur I. Levy

Sr., John Alcina, and Tim Mc-

Keand will remain as executives of the company. The current man- agement will stay intact.

With this acquisition, NICOR subsidiary companies will operate a fleet of 30 special-purpose ves- sels serving the offshore oil and

Above: The M/V BUFFALO, a 635-foot long self-unloader built tor American Steamship Company. Buffalo. New York.

Designed with an unloading rate of 3.500 short tons of coal per hour or 6.600 long tons of ore per hour, the Ml V BUFFALO has a cargo deadweight of 23.110 long tons.

WE'RE READY TO SERVE YOU

WITH 60 YEARS OF EXPERTISE

IN THE DESIGN AND BUILDING OF

SELF-UNLOADING BULK CARGO VESSELS gas industry. Their activities in- clude: oceanographic and seis- mographic research, freight and container transportation, vessel chartering and ocean towing in the U.S. and Mexican Gulf, Car- ibbean, and offshore West Africa.

Grant Hagen Joins

Designers & Planners

Grant R. Hagen has joined De- signers & Planners, Inc. as prin- cipal naval architect. The an- nouncement was made recently by Ferd Serim, president of the company. Designers & Planners,

Inc. is a firm of naval architects and marine engineers with offices in New York, Washington, Texas and Philadelphia.

In his new capacity, Mr.

Hagen's responsibilities will be primarily in the area of ship hy- drodynamics and ship motions.

He reports to Carlos Tomassoni, director, ship design and marine economics.

Mr. Hagen is a graduate of the

University of Michigan, where he earned BSE degrees in naval ar- chitecture and marine engineer- ing, and in civil engineering. He has 38 years of experience as a naval architect, the last 36 at the

David W. Taylor Naval Ship Re- search and Development Center where he reached the position of head, Ship Dynamics Division.

Krupp Atlas Appoints

Walter J. Finney

Houston Service Manager

Krupp Atlas recently announced that Walter Finney has taken over as service manager of At- las's Houston, Texas, facility. Mr.

Finney reports to Doug Blue,

Krupp Atlas's sales manager for the Gulf.

Walter Finney • SALTWATER SHIPS and TUG/BARGES to 730'. • GREAT LAKES SHIPS to 1,100'. • TWO GRAVING DOCKS...the largest 1,158' long with a traveling gantry crane capable of handling 200-ton super-sections, fabricated simultaneously at numerous adjacent locations. • ONE FLOATING DOCK.. . 7,000-ton. • COMPLETE IN-HOUSE CAPABILITIES ... to design, engineer, build, repair, convert, re-power, retro-fit and jumboize. • BUILDING SHIPS SINCE 1902 ... an established company, in a new location with modern facilities, including computer lofting and burning.

Bay Shipbuilding Corp. has built more modern self- unloading ships than any other shipyard in the United

States... 13 within the past 7 years, with 2 currently under construction. In addition, 14 vessels have been converted to self-unloaders, with 2 currently under contract.

Our Company's 60 years of expertise in automated and semi-automated self-unloaders is the primary reason we routinely deliver on schedule.

Our personnel have extensive experience in coal or oil-fired steam propulsion and diesel ships. Our experience also includes the construction of com- mercial ocean tankers/barges and chemical carriers, dump barges, derrick ships, passenger ships, stern trawlers, tug/barge units, and industrial products.

WE'RE READY TO SERVE YOU...

BAY SHIPBUILDING CORP.

Subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company, Inc. 605 North 3rd Avenue, Sturgeon Bay, Wl 54235

Phone: 414-743-5524 © BAY SHIPBUILDING CORP. 1981

Mr. Finney's duties will include coordinating service activities for

Atlas dealers and customers in the Gulf region. He will maintain his own technical staff in Hou- ston.

Mr. Finney brings to Krupp over 25 years of extensive marine electronics experience with ex- pertise in radar, loran, communi- cations, RDF, and echosounders.

He was most recently the senior sales engineer with Jackson Ma- rine in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Dur- ing his career, Mr. Finney has held many service and technically oriented positions with ITT Dec- ca, NSI, Airborne Systems, and

IBM.

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