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O'Hara Named Corporate

Director Of Industrial

Relations For Todd

Todd Shipyards Corporations has announced the appointment of

John B. O'Hara as corporate di- rector of industrial relations. For- merly vice president-industrial rela- tions for Todd's subsidiary, Todd

Pacific Shipyards Corporation, Mr.

O'Hara will now be responsible for all industrial relations policies on a corporate-wide basis, including San

Francisco, Galveston, and Houston, as well as the Los Angeles and Seat- tle Divisions of Todd Pacific. He will report directly to Todd presi- dent Hans K. Schaefer.

Todd Shipyards Corporation, the nation's largest independent ship- building and ship repair company, operates shipyards in or near Seat- tle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Gal- veston, and New Orleans.

Chiedo Appointed Grain

Freight Sales Manager

For Dravo Mechling

Dravo Mechling Corporation, the barge line subsidiary of Dravo Cor- poration, has announced the ap- pointment of Joseph B. Chiedo as manager, grain freight sales. Pre- viously associated as a commodity broker and merchandiser with sev- eral grain trading and transporta- tion firms in the St. Louis area, he will have overall responsibility for grain-related matters as a member of Dravo Mechling's headquarters staff in New Orleans.

Mr. Chiedo is a graduate of the

University of Missouri, and is active in a number professional and trade organizations, including the St.

Louis Milling and Grain Club.

Houston Ship Repair

Gets Contract From MarAd

The Maritime Administration has awarded an $823,088 contract to

Houston Ship Repair, Inc., 16201

Wood Drive, Channelview, Texas, for topside repairs of the Pioneer

Contractor, a Ready Reserve Force vessel.

The repairs will permit the ship to meet American Bureau of Shipping and U.S. Coast Guard standards.

They include major repairs to the hatch covers, foscle and stern deck plates and boiler refractory.

The work will be performed in

Orange, Texas, and is scheduled to be completed in 80 days.

Computer Helps With

Cargo Load Monitoring

And Business Management

American Hydromath Company of Germantown, N.Y., is the produc- er of LOADOSCOPE GP, a desk- top general-purpose computer pro- grammed to meet the needs of the marine industry in ship's cargo loading and business management, both shoreside and shipboard.

October 1, 1984 57

It can include ship's store control, financial accounting, voyage data analysis, crew payroll, survey and maintenance, purchasing, inventory and performance monitoring. The user-friendly system allows rapid and accurate calculation of drafts forward and aft, dwt, graphical and numerical stress values as a percent- age of maximum allowable SF and

BM, for harbor and at-sea condi- tions, GZ curve and angles of heel, stability (GM and GM Req.) and tabular summaries of load condi- tions.

All readings are simultaneously displayed and updated on the CRT screen. Operating personnel have an overview of the loading pattern, can see what points are overstressed and can try out what measures to take to obtain a maximum payload with proper stress, desired trim and safe stability. An alphanumeric printer lists and identifies all inputs and outputs. By combining experience in ship's operations and naval archi- tecture, cargo planning programs are available to specific ship's char- acteristics for all vessel types, in- cluding containerships, tankers, bulk carriers, RO/ROs, LNG/LPG ships, tug/barge, etc.

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