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SF Welding & Fabricating

Gets $20.5-Million Navy

Oiler Overhaul Contract

San Francisco Welding and

Fabricating, Incorporated, San

Francisco, Calif., is being award- ed a $20,482,252 fixed-price con- tract for extensive modifications and overhaul work on USNS

Ponchatoula, a Navy oiler. The

U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Com- mand is the contracting activity. (N00033-77-C-0015)

Vincent Ferraro Named

Estimating VP For

Savannah Shipyard

David H. Green, president and chief executive officer of Savan- nah Shipyard Company, has an- nounced that Vincent J. Ferraro

Jr. has been elected vice presi- dent-estimating for the Savan- nah, Ga., company and continues with his present duties and re- sponsibilities as chief estimator.

He is responsible for the Esti- mating Department, which en- compasses ship repair, conver- sion, and industrial repairs.

Vincent J. Ferraro Jr.

Mr. Ferraro joined Savannah

Shipyard as a full-time employee in 1956 when he was assigned to the Engineering Department. Pri- or to that he had worked in the

Machinist Department during the summers while attending college.

In 1958, he was transferred to the

Production Department where he was assigned as a ship supervisor.

Following that assignment, Mr.

Ferraro began training in the Es- timating Department in 1961. He was later promoted to estimator in 1966 and became chief esti- mator for the shipyard in July 1979.

Paceco Container Crane

Arrives At Massport's

Castle Island Terminal

Massport executive director

David W. Davis has announced the arrival of a special cargo for the Port of Boston. The first of two low-profile container cranes that will service Massport's Castle

Island Marine Terminal is now in port.

The crane was built by Paceco,

Inc. at their Gulfport, Miss., fac- tory and shipped by barge to

Boston. The trip up the Eastern seacoast took nearly two weeks.

According to Massport's port director Martin C. Pilsch Jr., the crane's arrival is an important milestone in the expansion of the

Castle Island Marine Terminal. "This equipment — the 40-long- ton cranes — helps make Mass- port's development plans a work- ing reality."

The new Castle Island contain- er facility is due to open this fall and is part of Massport's $100- million seaport expansion pro- gram. Massport is making a sub- stantial investment in new and existing maritime facilities to in- sure that the Port of Boston re- mains a thriving seaport.

Biehl Opens New Office

In Corpus Christi—John

Durrenberger Is Manager

Biehl & Company, a major in- dependent steamship agency, has opened an office in Corpus Christi,

Texas, it was announced by Don

Waheed, vice president/West

Gulf general manager. John Dur- renberger has been named man- ager of the new office. He joined

Biehl in 1958 in the Beaumont office and continued there for five years. Since that time he has held other management positions in the steamship industry, with a total of 22 years' experience.

According to Mr. Waheed, the new Corpus Christi office is the 14th office in the Biehl network, and will provide a full range of services to shippers using the port. The office is located at 3833

South Staples, Suite 41. The mail- ing address is P.O. Box 6774,

Corpus Christi, Texas 78411; (512) 855-5621, telex: 767-708.

IF YOUR SHIP SENDS OR RECEIVES MORE THAN 20 WORDS A DAY

DY TELEGRAPH (CW)

Number of Words

Transmitted

Per Day 21

See

Note 1 100

See

Note 2 300 500

See

Note 3 800

NOTES

Approximate number of words per day trans- mitted by (1) Containership using CW for Traffic

Transmission |2| Tanker on Persian

Gulf/Bahamas run (3) Conr^nership on the U S

Coast//jrope run

CW Cost (S) 9.00 44.00 134.00 224.00 358.00

Telex Cost ($) 9.00 9.00 15.00 24.00 39.00

Savings Per Day (S) 35.00 119.00 200.00 319.00

Savings Per 350 Day Year (S) - $12,250 41,650 70,000 111,650

Above data abstracted trom MARAD Office of Advanced Ship Operations study prepared for the Council of American-Flag Ship Operators, 1980

PHILIPS AND ELECTRO-NAV CAN SAVE YOU A LOT OF MONEY

The figures speak for themselves.

For a tanker on the Persian Gulf run, transmis- sion of ETA, weather data, arrival/departure . | reports, and requisitions average more than 300 words per day. CW transmission costs: $134.

Telex: $15. For a saving of $119 per day. Or $41,650 per 350 day year.

A containership on the

Europe run — making 2 to 3 times as many trips in a year, and hitting more ports per trip — averages more than 800 words per day. CW cost: $358. Telex cost: $39. For a saving of $319 per day. Or $111,650 per year.

If your radio traffic volume is lower than the averages reported in the data, it's probably because your ship is not equipped with telex. With CW costing you a minimum of 45 cents per word you have to cut down on sending and receiving. So you miss a lot of important information. Information that would give you much greater control over your vessel's operations. Information that would cost you practically nothing when your ship is equipped with telex. In fact, your Philips telex will pay for itself in just 2 to 4 months. And then starting paying off for you. money isn't everything

There's also performance, and Philips has it all.

Like ARQ, an automatic request for repetition. An addressing system that lets you transmit and receive, in full privacy, to any ship in your fleet. Or — in privacy — to all of them at once. Plus state of the art modular circuitry, with built-in self diagnostics for ease of maintenence. And just one circuit board, replaceable in minutes by shipboard personnel, so you don't get expensive bills for shoreside services. jS> © © »

Also, the Philips

PACT 220 Tele- printer — with your choice of paper tape or electronic memory — and automatic, un- attended operation when desired, gives you full flexibility to send and transmit traffic at your convenience. And a clear hard copy of all messages that you won't need an interpreter to decipher.

With Philips telex you can forget about your atmospherics distorting your messages. And about repair problems; MTBF average is 62,000 hours. In the unlikely event that anything should go wrong, you'll find factory-trained Philips or

Electro-Nav service personnel in just about every port in the world.

To sum up. Philips telex, with its cost of only 41/2 cents per word, and speed of 66 words per minute will make it convenient and easily affordable to send and receive a broad range of pertinent shipboard information — stowage plans, cargo manifests, loading and discharging reports, equipment control data — rapidly, accurately, and inexpensively. And give you the data you need to administer and control your entire fleet. From your office.

For more information contact: & Electro-Nav

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