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New Marine Equipment

Catalog Offered By

Willem Pot Of Holland

A 42-page catalog of the com- pany's stock of ship's auxiliary machines and anchor and chain cable equipment has been pub- lished by Willem Pot B.V., Rot- terdam, Netherlands.

Included are 46 categories of new and reconditioned equipment available including deck machin- ery, engine room machinery, an- chors and chain cable, and deck equipment. Each item listed in- cludes a description, the number of units available, and technical specifications. There are several photographs as well as illustra- tive drawings and tables of spec- ifications.

For a free copy of the catalog,

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Sudoimport Orders

Jacket-Launching Barge

From Blohm & Voss AG

Representatives of Blohm &

Voss AG, Hamburg, West Ger- many, signed a contract in Mos- cow recently with the Soviet for- eign trade organization, Sudo- import, for the design, construc- tion, and delivery of a special

At your service...

To help you to obtain effective utilization of vessels. This is Unitor's basic principle in developing systems and services to satisfy its customers requirements. UNITOR has three main objectives when selecting products: 1. Quality. The products must meet the highest quality standards. 2. Standardisation. The user must be fully assured of service and availability of replacement parts world over. 3. International availability.

The same range of products should be available from all 55 offices and 160 agents within the UNITOR service network, covering 450 main ports. UNITOR is continuously striving to meet the demanding needs of today's modern shipping industry.

A wide range of products.

UNITOR offers a wide range of products and services for the operation, maintenance and safety systems on board vessels and offshore units.

Consultative service ...

According to various needs from the smallest components to the complete installation designed and specified long before the keel is laid.

A special service systems .. is employed for regular service and maintenance work covering fire- fighting and safety equipment on board through an established follow-up system.

UfllTOR Unitor Ships Service AS, Mastemyr, N-1410 Kolbotn, Norway. Phone 472 80 26 60. Telex 16004. service vessel for the USSR's

Ministry of the Gas Industry.

The vessel is a 26,800-dwt jack- et-launching barge capable of transporting jackets up to 18,000 tons for offshore platforms from the building yard to locations in the Caspian Sea, and then lower the jacket on site under con- trolled conditions.

The barge will be 163 meters long, by 45 meters wide, and 12 meters deep (about 535 feet by 148 feet by 39 feet). Delivery is scheduled for mid-1983. Tliis is the second order Blohm & Voss has received from the USSR.

Previously the company delivered the crane ship Aserbajdshan, with a lifting capacity of 2,500 tons, also for use in the Caspian

Sea.

St. Louis Ship Names

Richard D. Riter To New

Quality Assurance Post

Richard D. Riter

The appointment of Richard

D. Riter to fill the newly created position of quality assurance man- ager at St. Louis Ship was an- nounced by Edward Renshaw, president.

Mr. Riter was the Department of Energy's Naval Reactors Rep- resentative at Norfolk Naval Ship- yard for the past seven years.

Mr. Riter was also at Newport

News Shipbuilding on the staff of the Naval Reactors Office for 11 years. Prior to that time, he had a successful 21-year career in the

U.S. Navy, going from seaman recruit to lieutenant.

The quality assurance manager will develop and manage a total quality assurance program at St.

Louis Ship, Paducah Marine Ways and Caruthersville Shipyard, which comprise the Shipyard

Group of Pott Industries Inc.

Hydranautics Relocates

London Office

Hydranautics International,

Goleta, Calif., recently moved its engineering and sales office in

London to Balfour House, 590

Uxbridge Road, Hayes, Middle- sex, UB4 ORY, England. Tele- phone number is 01-573-3681.

Telex is 933469, Cable Caplon G.

The London office represents both

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