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Transoceanic Shipping

Appoints Villanueva

To New Orleans Post

Juan Villanueva was recently appointed to the position of Man- ager of Ocean Forwarding Opera- tions for Transoceanic Shipping

Company's New Orleans office.

Mr. Villanueva will be respon- sible for coordinating all documen- tation, consular invoices, letters of credit, insurance and all other necessary related services.

According to TSC executive vice president Roland J. Ledet, "Mr.

Villanueva's new position is part of a nationwide strategy to place seasoned professionals on every level of operation."

Farrell Lines To Test

U.S. Sea Shed System's

Commercial Applications

Adm. Harold E. Shear, USN (ret.), Maritime Administrator, announced recently that the Mar- itime Administration (MarAd) and

Farrell Lines, Inc., of New York have signed a cooperative agree- ment under which the steamship company will commercially test the feasibility of carrying over- sized cargoes in the holds of con- tainerships in its regularly sched- uled service. The tests will employ a system called Sea Shed (see MR 3/1/82, p 65; 12/15/82, p 6).

MarAd and the Naval Sea Sys- tems Command will jointly fund the $550,000 project, tentatively scheduled to begin in November and to continue through April 1984.

In the operational/commercial sea testing phase of the program, the government will pay for engi- neering, design and installation of ship modifications, test planning, training, data collection and analysis.

At no cost to the government,

Farrell Lines will provide three vessels to be modified and to carry

Sea Sheds and cargo, marketing to acquire cargo, all handling and lashing of cargo, supervision and support personnel and services.

The project also will provide a standard vessel modification for containerships, representing sig- nificant savings in the govern- ment's strategic sealift program, and potentially increased reve- nues for U.S.-flag carriers if com- mercial applications of Sea Shed prove viable.

The "universal adaptor" to be developed will minimize vessel modifications and allow most ex- isting containerships with 40-foot container cells to accommodate the Sea Shed system.

Farrell will modify three con- tainerships sailing regularly in its

U.S. East Coast/Mediterranean service—the Argonaut, Export Pa- triot and Export Freedom. The modifications, to be made at the lines' Port Elizabeth, N.J., termi- nal, will include the strengthening of cell guides (used normally for standard containers) and electrical work.

As a portable tween-deck sys- tem, a Sea Shed fits into three ad- jacent cells of a containership.

When stacked in the vessel, cargo is passed through and stowed at different levels by opening and closing Sea Shed's work through floors.

Farrell will have the option of stacking three Sea Shed proto- types in the same location in a sin- gle ship or utilizing them singly or any feasible combination of two or more aboard the test vessels simultaneously.

The liner company will offer service to shippers of large sized cargo beginning with the' sailing of the Argonaut (tentatively in early November) from Norfolk, Va.

M. Rosenblatt and Son was the design agent for the Sea Shed sys- tem. The prime contractor for pro- gram development is Information

Spectrum, Inc., of Arlington, Va. , Connecticut

MTU of North America, Inc. • 10450 Corporate Drive

Sugar Land, Tfexas 77478

Phone(713)491-4140

Tfelex: 791-201 • One East Putnam Avenue

Greenwich, Connecticut 06830

Phone(203)629-4300

Tfelex: 643-412 • 801-18th Street NW

Washington, D.C. 20006

Phone(202)293-0020

Tfelex: 248-211 • 2945 Railroad Avenue

Morgan City, Louisiana 70380

Phone(504)384-6437

Tfelex: 784-128 • 180 Nickerson Street

Seattle, Washington 98109

Phone(206)285-7175

Tfelex: 152-909

Product Support Dealer • The Boat Yard. Inc. 3201 Fairview Avenue East

Seattle, Washington 98102

Phone(206)323-3834

We will be at the 2nd S.N.A.M.E.

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No Other Diesel in the World

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