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Crane Joins International

Marine Terminals As

Transportation Coordinator

John Crane

John C. Crane has been named transportation coordinator for In- ternational Marine Terminals (IMT) of New Orleans. The an- nouncement was made by IMT vice president William E. Hall II.

Mr. Crane will coordinate all river and deep-sea activity be- tween IMT customers and the ter- minal located in Plaquemines Par- ish at Myrtle Grove, La.

IMT, a joint venture of Houston

Natural Gas Corporation, Occi- dental Petroleum Corporation, and

Florida Progress Corporation, is a modern transfer facility equipped with three ship berths, and offers a wide range of services to the coal and dry bulk industries. The ter- minal began operations in 1978 and completed a $63-million ex- pansion program in March of 1983.

Tanker Owners Federation

Will Study Oil Spill

Clean-Up For U.S. Navy

The International Tanker Own- ers Pollution Federation, head- quartered in the United Kingdom, has been asked to undertake a study for the U.S. Navy to identify resources for combating oil spills in certain high-risk areas in Eu- rope, it was announced recently by

John Archer, managing director of the Federation. The study will assess the risk potential of differ- ent sizes of oil spills, and comment on the adequacy of existing Navy clean-up resources.

A total of 26 locations will be surveyed in eight countries: France,

Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal,

Spain, Turkey and the United

Kingdom. A preliminary study has been carried out for one U.S. Navy

Activity Area in Naples, Italy and for one NATO Fuel Terminal Area in El Ferrol, Spain. Other high- risk locations to be included in the study will be U.S. Navy Discharge

Ports and U.S. Strategic Petro- leum Reserve Loading Ports. "Taking U.S. Navy oil spill sta- tistics, the function of the location, and the types and qualities of oil handled," commented Mr. Archer, "we will study the risk factors and determine what clean-up re- sources are required."

Hayward Offers Free

Slide Rule Selector

For Pipeline Strainers

Hayward Industrial Products,

Inc. of Elizabeth, N.J., a leading manufacturer of pipeline strain- ers, is now offering a complemen- tary strainer slide rule selector.

The selector enables anyone to specify the proper size basket strainer for their particular re- quirements. The only information needed is rate of flow, liquid vis- cosity, and specific gravity.

The Hayward selector is appli- cable to strainers having either plain or perforated screen baskets or mesh-lined baskets with fine- ness down to 200 mesh, and flow rates from 10 to 10,000 gallons per minute. Built-in factors automati- cally compensate for the three pri- mary variables. All the user has to do is decide what pressure drop he wants; the result is fast, accurate selection of the proper strainer size.

For a free Hayward strainer selector,

Circle 49 on Reader Service Card r Now you can simplify your propulsion shaft installation with the OK

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Reduce size of stern tube and bulkhead glands. Increase cruis- ing speed or improve specific fuel consumption by reducingthe size of the strut barrel.

In wide use by naval forces the world over, the OK Coupling employs the inter- ference fit principle for totally secure holding power. But since it can be removed or replaced in minutes rather than days, it can help you meet your on:time goals in dry dock, too.

Circle 131 on Reader Service Card

Get away from theold-fashioned, large- diameterflange coupling. Or eliminate keys, keyways and thrust collars, and save machiningand installation costs.

More than 10,000 couplings, classi- fied by ABS, Lloyds, DNVand other

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Coupling Division

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WORK BOATS BY BENDER.

ORDERED ON PRICE, DELIVERED ON TIME.

With a machine shop approved by ABS for shaft build-ups: 60 to 125-ton floating, mobile and stationary cranes; 2.000, 4,000 and 7,000- ton floating docks with a 20,000-ton dock under construction; and 5,200 feet of waterfront, 42 feet deep, a clear shot up Mobile Bay, not 30 miles from the Gulf.

So, when it's time to order the services of a boat yard, call on Bender. We deliver.

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Every Bender work boat is outfitted for the most rigorous duty under the cruelest conditions.

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We also repair. Everything from Gulf shrimpers to ocean liners.

Peter Maschke

Sales

Mobile |ohn Logan

General

Sales Manager

Mobile |oe Hendrix

West Coast

Representative 206/282-9631

March 15, 1984 Circle 132 on Reader Service Card 27