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Ingram Materials Expands

Bulk Marine Terminal

Ingram Materials Company, a division of Ingram Industries Inc., headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. announced the grand opening of its expanded bulk marine termi- nal facilities in Paducah, Ky.

Ingram Materials' Paducah Port is located at Mile 2.1 on the Ten- nessee River and has 450 feet of river frontage.

The recent expansion added 15,000 tons of covered storage and 80,000 tons of outside storage area for bulk cargo. The total covered storage is now 17,000 tons while outside storage exceeds 100,000 tons. To date it has handled fertil- izer, petroleum coke, Arkalite, gravel sand and grain.

Ingram has a self-contained dredging and processing facility, the Floating Plant Ingram, which operates on the Ohio River near

Paducah and produces specifica- tion sand for distribution at river- side facilities in Nashville and

Clarksville, Tenn. in addition to

Paducah.

Emerson Shank Joins

Desco Marine As VP

Sales And Marketing

Emerson Shank

Desco Marine president Tom

Collins announced recently that

Emerson Shank has accepted the position of vice president for sales and marketing with the St. Au- gustine shipbuilder. Mr. Shank will supervise Desco's sales and marketing program for new boat construction, repair and marine hardware and supply. "We will be more aggressive in our efforts to promote our products and expand our capabilities," said

Mr. Collins when announcing Mr.

Shank's appointment. "This is a continuation of the program begun last year with new ownership and the addition of several new prod- uct lines."

Mr. Shank's sales background includes 15 years with V.A.W.

Aluminum, a West German man- ufacturing company with over $2 billion in annual sales. Overall, he has been active in marketing and sales for 25 years.

In addition to Mr. Shank, other management personnel to join the

Desco team recently include John

L. Leonard as production man- ager, and Mike Russell as naval architect and engineering manager.

Desco Marine, Inc. is a modern shipbuilding and repair facility lo- cated in St. Augustine, Fla. Desco's capabilities include steel boats up to 200 feet, fiberglass boats to 90 feet and wood boats to 73 feet. For information regarding Desco Ma- rine's products and services,

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Jeffrey Gordon Joins

Sonat Offshore Drilling

William C. O'Malley, president of Sonat Offshore Drilling Inc., re- cently announced that Jeffrey B.

Gordon has joined the company as division manager of the Gulf

Coast.

Mr. Gordon joined Sonat Off- shore Drilling in 1975 as an attor- ney and in 1978 was named senior contracts and sales representative.

From 1979 until his return to

Sonat Offshore Drilling, he was employed by an international drilling contractor in the field of marketing.

He earned a Bachelor of Engi- neering Science degree from the

United States Air Force Academy and a J.D. degree from the Uni- versity of Texas.

With the continued steady rise in energy costs, the need for new and more economical modes of tran- sportation has become yet more pressing. Barge carrying systems - integrating ocean shipping with tra- ditional inland navigation - provide one answer. Barges are cheap, and water-borne transport is indisputab- ly the most economical form of transport.

Furthermore, it is a well- established fact that the more time an expensive vessel actually spends at sea, the more economical it becomes to its owners. With the

Valmet system, turnaround times for the mother ship are greatly re- duced, and loading/unloading of the contents of the individual barges can take place when the ocean carrier itself is enroute to its next port of call.

The system developed by Valmet features a mother vessel for ocean traffic, float- on-float-off feeder units for 4-8 barges, pusher tugs for river transports and port use, and a patented loading terminal.

M/S BORIS P0LEV0Y, the first of the two 8,800 tdw barge feeder/ro-ro vessels recently delivered by Valmet Helsinki Shipyard for the Soviet Danube Shipping

Company.

VALMET BARGE HANDLING SYSTEM VALMET

Shipbuilding Group

Valmet Corporation P.0 B 910 SF-00101 Helsinki 10 Finland Tel.+358-0-317 300 Tlx 121145 valyd sf

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