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Hale Fire Pump Awarded $15.7-Million Navy Contract

For Shipboard Units

Hale Fire Pump Company of

Conshohocken, Pa., has been awarded a $15,695,000 firm-fixed- price Navy contract for 5,000 P-250

Mod 1 portable firefighting pumps for use aboard surface ships as dam- age control equipment. Work is ex- pected to be completed in August 1987. This contract was competi- tively procured; six companies were solicited and eight bids were re- ceived. The Navy Ship Parts Con- trol Center in Mechanicsburg, Pa., is the contracting activity (N00104- 84-C-0580).

GE Awarded $7.27-Million

Increase To Navy Contract

For Spare Radar Antenna

General Electric Company, Syra- cuse, N.Y., has been awarded a $7,274,480 modification, on a not- to-exceed basis, to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive con- tract for one spare antenna mechan- ical structure for the AN/TPS-59 radar. The Naval Electronic Sys- tems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting authority.

KaMeWa Reports Lively

Interest In Water Jet

Propulsion Units

After a moderate start at the end of the 1970s, KaMeWa AB of Swed- en is now experiencing a spreading interest in the water jet (WJ) for vessel propulsion. Commencing with the delivery in 1980 of two WJ units of 1,600 hp each for the Apollo

Jet, the same Hong Kong-based owner now has eight units on four catamarans in service. Additional boats of the same type will operate in various areas. Hong Kong police authorities have ordered 15 WJ units for delivery during 1984.

KaMeWa has booked orders for new geographical areas and new clients as follows: four units for the

Finnish Defence Organization; two units for a special service prototype boat for a NATO country in Europe; two units, each of 1,180 hp, for a

Singapore-built offshore crewboat of the catamaran type; two units for a Singapore yard, each of 1,420 hp, to be installed in a pleasure craft; two units, each of 690 hp, for a Japa- nese high-speed passenger boat to be built by Yamaha; and three units, each of 442 hp, for a European navy prototype combined transport and landing craft.

Some 50 WJ units are now in ser- vice or on order; the biggest is one 13,400-hp unit. Inquiries are now being received by KaMeWa from all over the world, mainly for high- speed, shallow-draft for military and commercial applications.

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October 15, 1984

Hirt Named West Gulf

Operations Manager For

Ryan-Walsh Stevedoring

Mobile-headquartered Ryan-

Walsh Stevedoring Company, Inc., has announced the appointed of

Capt. Ernst Hirt as operations manager-West Gulf. As a senior member of the company's regional management staff in Houston, he will be responsible for day-to-day operations in the West Gulf Texas ports of Houston, Galveston, Beau- mont, Port Arthur, and Orange.

A native of Switzerland, Captain

Hirt has an extensive background in international steamship industry operations. A graduate of the Mer- chant Marine Academy in Rotter- dam, he holds a Dutch master's license, and served as ship's captain for a Swiss-flag line. After coming ashore as port captain for a major

U.S. steamship line, he became in- volved in a variety of cargo-handling and terminal management activities at a number of world ports, includ- ing construction of the first floating dock and container terminal at the port of Khorranshahr in Iran.

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