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and gas supply functions for El

Paso Natural, the company's na- tural gas transmission unit.

Mr. Mackie, who will remain a senior vice president of El Paso

Marine, will be responsible for the disposition of the company's

LNG facilities, while Mr. Ray, formerly an assistant vice presi- dent of El Paso Marine, will be responsible for the remaining op- erations and engineering func- tions of that company. In Febru- ary this year the company an- nounced the discontinuance of its

LNG project, and the assets are pending disposition.

Port Of Oakland Awards $2.3-Million Contract

For Terminal Expansion

The Port of Oakland has award- ed a contract to the firm of Gal- lagher and Burk, Inc. of Oakland,

Calif., to carry out one phase of terminal yard construction for the new 42-acre Charles P. How- ard Container Terminal now tak- ing shape in the Port's Inner Har- bor. The $2.3-million contract calls for the construction of about 21 acres of rocked terminal yard adjacent to the 1,700-foot-long wharf. Other contracts will be awarded to pave the 21 acres and the remainder of the 42 acres.

The Howard Container Termi- nal, which embraces both the for- mer Howard Terminal and the former Grove/Market Street Ter- minal, will have two 850-foot-long container berths. A third berth, which is being retained with a cargo shed from the Grove/Mar- ket Street Terminal, will serve breakbulk vessels. The terminal will be served by two container cranes being manufactured in Ja- pan by Hitachi America Limited.

Serrie Joins Levingston

As VP Of Operations

Joe Barrios, president of Lev- ingston Shipbuilding Company, announced recently that John

Serrie has joined Levingston as vice president of operations of the Levingston Shipbuilding Com- pany.

John Serrie

Mr. Serrie brings a wide range of experience to Levingston from his many previous management positions at major shipyards in the U.S.

Born in New Jersey, he at- tended college at both Georgia

Tech and Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Navy's

V-12 Program, where he earned his degree in naval architecture and marine engineering.

Shortly after his graduation,

Mr. Serrie entered active duty in the Navy and served as a naval officer both in World War II and in the Korean Conflict.

Mr. Serrie joined the Electric

Boat Division of General Dynam- ics in 1953, where he advanced to the position of director of design engineering with responsibility for an organization of 3,500 en- gineers and designers.

In 1968, he joined Ingalls Ship- building as vice president of en- gineering. From 1971 to 1974 he was vice president of operations for the company, managed a workforce of 15,000 people and delivered one-third of the com- mercial vessels produced in the

United States in that period.

Mr. Serrie became president of

Seatrain Shipbuilding in 1974.

During his tenure at Seatrain, the company built and delivered three very large crude carriers (VLCC) each of 225,000 dead- weight tons. These ships, at that time, were the largest vessels ever built in the United States.

He left Seatrain in 1978 to do consulting work on commercial shipbuilding programs in Japan,

Norway and Sweden, and subse- quently became an associate pro- fessor in the Department of Ma- rine Technology at Mississippi

State University.

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