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Luxury Cruise Liner Filled With

Many Environmental Safeguards SNAME Philadelphia Section Discusses

Ship Design By Personal Computers

The Philadelphia Section of

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its sonal Computer as an Aid to Pre- liminary Ship Design," describes a svstem that is intended to uti-

The new flagship of the Ger- man merchant fleet, the luxury liner M/V Europa, recently com- pleted almost three days of sea trials in the North Sea. The 35,000-grt liner is scheduled to 70 7125 BL slow-speed reversible diesels, each with a maximum continuous output of 10,640 kw (2 by 14,460 hp) driving a five- blade fixed-pitch propeller at a service speed of 21 knots. Cruis-

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Principals shown above at the Philadelphia SNAME meeting are, left to right: F.L.

Pavlik, discusser, of Keystone Shipping; J.R. Wittmeyer, coordinator, Sun Ship;

M.E. Willis, author, Sun Ship; C.W. Lofft, Section secretary-treasurer, Sun Ship;

R.C. Button, discusser, J.J. Henry; and T.P. Campbell, Section chairman, Sun Ship.

The new cruise ship M/V Europa (35,000 grt, 600 passengers plus 275 crew) sails down the Weser River for trials by the Bremer Vulkan shipyard.

M/V Europa Completes Sea Trials;

Three Top Management

Changes At Levingston

Edward E. Paden, president of

Levingston Industries, Inc., has announced three senior manage- ment assignments resulting from the formation of two new compa- nies within the Levingston Group.

Joe Barrios, currently presi- dent of Levingston Shipbuilding

Company, has been appointed president of the newly formed

Levingston Trading Company, based in Orange, Texas.

John Serrie, currently vice president, operations, succeeds

Mr. Barrios as president of Lev- ingston Shipbuilding Company.

Joe Wise, president of Leving- ston Marine Corporation, based in

Annapolis, Md., is appointed to the additional position of presi- dent of the newly formed com- pany—Levingston International,

A.G., which will be based in Zug,

Switzerland.

Commenting on the formation of Levingston Trading Company,

Mr. Paden said that Levingston's recent technology exchange pro- grams with Ishikawajima-Harima

Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., and its long association through li- censing with Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, Ltd., had illustrated the attractiveness of the trading company approach as practiced by the large Japan- ese engineering groups. Leving- ston Trading Company will ini- tiate a similar approach through the activities of five existing Lev- ingston Group companies—three marine equipment manufacturing companies, an equipment leasing company and a marine supply company.

With regard to the formation of Levingston International, Mr.

Paden said that for several years now Levingston has been sun- thur, Texas, which builds rigs and other offshore equipment and operates Levingston's ship repair facilities, with the largest exist- ing fleet of drydocks on the Gulf

Coast; Levingston Trading Com- pany, in Orange, Texas, which will manage Levingston's activ- ities in the development, produc- tion, sale, and leasing of marine equipment and supplies; and Lev- ingston Marine Corporation, in

Annapolis, Md., which provides naval architectural and marine engineering services, including engineering support of six over- seas shipbuilding companies that are currently licensed to build

Levingston-designed drill rigs.

Mr. Paden went on to say that he expects Levingston to continue to grow in its traditional markets with orderly diversification into other marine-related activities.

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