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Designers & Planners

Completes Replacement

Study On Alaska Ferry

Designers & Planners, Inc. (D&P) of Arlington, Va., one of three firms awarded a replace- ment study contract by the State of Alaska, recently delivered its conceptual design study for the replacement of the aging Tustu- mena. This work represents an expansion of D&P involvement in ferryboat work for the State of

Alaska. Prior to this conceptual design study, D&P had provided the production drawings for the 408-foot passenger /car ferry

Matanuska.

The recent replacement study, directed by Carlos Tomassoni, di- rector of ship design and marine economics at D&P, was completed in the required 63 days, and in- volved a fleet transportation anal- ysis leading to a conceptual de- sign of the optimum replacement vessel.

Concept designs, incorporating the results of the hydrodynamic trade-off with payloads and sched- ules for completing solution fleets, were prepared and costed on the basis of similar vessels built in

U.S. yards. Operating costs for competitive systems were de- termined, and implementation schemes for future acquisitions for the fleet taken as a whole were developed for total system comparisons.

Todd Pacific Now

Authorized Repair Shop

For B&W Diesel Engines

Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle

Division, signed an agreement with B&W Diesel A/A of Copen- hagen, Denmark, to be "the au- thorized repair shop for B&W

Diesel Engines" in the Pacific

Northwest area. This agreement will complement Todd Seattle's existing Sulzer engine agreement and will provide motorship oper- ators with competent technical support of large, slow-speed en- gines in the Pacific Northwest.

Todd Seattle can now provide re- pair crews to all Northwest ports as well as riding crews when re- quired. The B&W agreement was finalized in Seattle by Carsten

Skriver, B&W Technical Service manager, and John Gilbride Jr., vice president and general man- ager of Todd Pacific Shipyards,

Seattle Division. Todd Seattle signed their agreement with

Sulzer Brothers, Inc. in January of this year.

Griffin-Alexander

Subsidiary Asks Title XI

On $25-Million Jackup

G & A Ltd. Ill, a subsidiary of

Griffin-Alexander Drilling Com- pany, Houston, has applied to the

Maritime Administration for a

Title XI guarantee to aid in fi- nancing the construction of one jackup drilling rig intended for operation in the U.S. Gulf of

Mexico. Bethlehem Steel Corpo- ration, Sparrows Point, Md., is the proposed builder, with deliv- ery estimated for March 1982.

The requested guarantee is for $18,576,000, which is 75 percent of the estimated cost of $24,769,- 000 for the drilling rig.

Richard Parks Named

Senior VP-Operations

For Farrell Lines

James P. Horn, president of

Farrell Lines Incorporated, has announced the appointment of

Richard V. Parks as senior vice president-operations. He began his career in the shipping indus- try in 1958 as an employee of

Sea-Land Service Inc. He spent 17 years with Sea-Land in vari- ous management positions, both in the United States and Europe.

In 1975, Mr. Parks joined Sea- train Lines as vice president of that company's North Atlantic

Services, and in 1976 was pro- moted to president-Seatrain Eu- ropa. He joined Farrell Lines in

March 1979 as vice president-

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Lines canceled its North Europe

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