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Penske Offers Brochure

On Diesels/Gas Turbines

For Marine/Offshore Power

Penske Energy and Engines

Group of New York, Philadelphia,

Houston, and Cincinnati offers a 12-page, full-color brochure de- scribing and illustrating the line of General Motors and General

Electric marine propulsion en- gines and generator sets that the group engineers, packages, and distributes. The companies com- prising the Penske Group are

Penske GM Power, Inc.; Penske

Detroit Diesel Allison, Inc.; and

Penske Power System, Inc.

As an authorized distributor and packager of GM Detroit Die- sel engines, Penske offers a com- plete line of diesel generator sets for standby and prime power sys- tems. Each unit is custom-engi- neered and thoroughly tested, uti- lizing the latest and most ad- vanced technology. Penske elec- trical engineers design and build switchgear and controls to match each generating system.

A Detroit Diesel Allison man- ufactured and Penske engineered engine is available for all work- boat applications. They span a range from 73 bhp maximum con- tinuous rating at 2,400 rpm for the 3-53 engine to the 16V-149 with mcr of 900 bhp at 1,800 rpm.

For a free copy of the Penske brochure,

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Subsidy Approved On

USL Conversion Job

To Cost $5.3 Million

The Maritime Subsidy Board has approved the award of a $2,569,934 subsidy to Maryland

Shipbuilding and Drydock Com- pany for reconstruction work on the United States Lines, Inc., con- tainership American Merchant.

The Baltimore shipyard is in- creasing the ship's container ca- pacity from the equivalent of 1,028 twenty-foot units to 1,340

TEUs. The ship also is being mod- ified to carry 40-foot containers in its holds.

The grant, under the construc- tion-differential subsidy program, amounts to 48.56 percent of the shipyard's contract price of $5,- 291,934 for the work. In addition, the Federal Government will pay $244,187 for the installation of certain military features request- ed by the Department of the

Navy. As a condition of the sub- sidy, United States Lines will of- fer to enroll the vessel in a sealift readiness program approved by the Secretary of Defense.

Consolidated Inland Opens

East Division Office—

R.R. Simms Named Manager

Phillip Stringer, president of

Consolidated Inland Marine, Inc.,

Beaumont, Texas, has announced the opening of an East Division office in the Mobile area. Located at 5950 Granada, Satsuma, Ala., the office will handle transporta- tion of petroleum cargoes between

New Orleans and all points east, including Tombigbee and Black

Warrior River systems. Crewing of boats also will be managed by this office.

Mr. Stringer also announced the appointment of Richard Ray

Simms as manager of the East

Division office. Mr. Simms has worked in the marine transpor- tation business as an operating and administrative officer for 17 years.

Consolidated Inland Marine is a petroleum barge company oper- ating on the Intracoastal Canal and inland river systems of Tex- as, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala- bama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

El Paso Promotes Three-

Harry Ray Named VP

Of El Paso Marine

The El Paso Company, Hou- ston, has announced the election of David F. Mackie as a senior vice president of the company,

Martin R. Engler Jr. as an exec- utive vice president of El Paso

Natural Gas Company, and Harry

W. Ray as a vice president of El

Paso Marine Company. The latter two companies are subsidiaries of

The El Paso Company.

Mr. Engler, formerly an execu- tive vice president' of El Paso

LNG Company, will be responsi- ble for operations, engineering,

BROKERAGE

OFFERS MORE THAN

THREE QUARTERS OF A CENTURY OF KNOW HOW'

IN THE SALE, PURCHASE AND CHARTER

OF ALL TYPES OF FLOATING EQUIPMENT

ALL TYPES AND SIZES OF TUGBOATS - BARGES - DREDGES - DERRICKS

FERRIES • BOTTOM DUMPERS - WORK BOATS - SURPLUS GOVERNMENT VESSELS

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