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Lundberg Reappointed

Director General

Of INMARSAT

Olof I. Lundberg

Olof I. Lundberg has been reappointed for a second six-year term as director general of the In- ternational Maritime Satellite Or- ganization (INMARSAT), head- quartered in London. He has been director general of INMARSAT since its creation in 1979. Prior to joining the Organization he was with the Swedish Telecommunica- tions Administration in various ca- pacities, and was actively involved in developing new telecommunica- tions services.

INMARSAT provides satellite communications services to the world's shipping and offshore indus- tries. It currently operates capacity on six satellites serving some 3,200 vessels; demand for some of its ser- vices is increasing at a rate of more than 60 percent a year.

INMARSAT is currently nego- tiating a contract to purchase from three to nine satellites, at a cost of up to $400 million, for its second generation system.

Literature Available

On Clemco Industries' 'Educt-O-Matic'

Clemco Industries, San Francisco,

Calif., manufactures "Educt-O-

Matic," a lightweight, portable abrasive blasting tool with an inte- gral abrasive recovery system.

Weighing only seven pounds, this hand-held tool vacuums and recy- cles abrasive during the blasting process.

It has a swivel blast head which turns 360° enabling an operator to blast in any direction without rotat- ing the body. A master adaptor with four special boots permits cleaning inside and outside angles, 90° cor- ners and rough or irregular sur- faces.

The Educt-O-Matic need only be attached to a Vt - or 3A -inch air line, requiring 90 cfm of air at 90 to 100 psi. It can hold one to four pounds of any standard 40-to-100 mesh blasting abrasive such as glass beads, steel grit or aluminum oxide.

Because it is completely enclosed no special operator safety equipment or training is required.

For further information on Clem- co's Educt-O-Matic,

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Hubbard Named To Newly

Created Position At

American President Lines

American President Lines of Oak- land, Calif., has announced the ap- pointment of W.B. Hubbard to the newly created posit ion of senior vice president-operations strategy. Suc- ceeding him as senior vice presi- dent-operations is Lorenz P. Rob- inson, who joined APL in 1979 and has served as vice president-North

America since 1980.

Also announced was the appoint- ment of Michael Diaz as vice president-North America, succeed- ing Mr. Robinson, and the promo- tion of Barry A. Miller to vice president-special services, succeed- ing Mr. Diaz. Mr. Miller previous- ly served as regional director, West- ern region, based in Los Angeles.

Bruce Seaton, president of

APL and its parent organization.

American President Companies,

Ltd., said Mr. Hubbard, in his new position, will be looking at near- and long-term strategy related to termi- nals, equipment, vessels, and other operating requirements of APL's international and domestic trans- portation operations. Mr. Hub- bard, who joined APL in 1977, brings to his new position 30 years of experience in the development of containerization and intermodal-

SNAME Introduces

New Quarterly—

The Journal Of

Ship Production

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, in conjunc- tion with the National Shipbuilding

Research Program is proud to pres- ent a new quarterly, the Journal of

Ship Production. The first issue was published in February 1985.

The Journal will be dedicated to presenting the latest and best pro- fessional papers relating to the ship- yard and the shipbuilding process.

It is intended that articles will be solicited from every nation and that professional shipbuilders will bene- fit from the information and data found in each issue.

Editorial direction of the Journal has been vested in a SNAME edito- rial committee, under the chairman- ship of Howard M. Bunch, who is also chairman of the education pan- el of the Society's ship production committee and Navsea professor of ship production at the University of

Michigan.

SNAME members are invited to subscribe at a special introductory rate of $12.50 for the first year.

Non-member subscribers pay $30 and Canadian and foreign nonmem- bers, $34. This is a special price for the four issues of 1985 only; back issues will be forwarded to later sub- scribers as long as the supply lasts.

Magnavox Awarded $24.6-Million Contract

For Navigation Systems

Magnavox Advanced Products and Systems Company, Torrance,

Calif., is being awarded a $24,692,648 firm-fixed-price letter contract for materials for produc- tion of the AN/SSN-2 navigation system. Work will be performed in

Torrance, Calif., and is expected to be completed in March 1987. Con- tract funds would not have expired at the end of the current fiscal year.

The Naval Sea Systems Command,

Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Semerad Appointed

Regional Marine Manager

For Ameron Coatings

Jerry G. Semerad Jr. has been named south regional marine man- ager for the Ameron Protective

Jerry Semerad Jr.

Coatings Group. From offices in

New Orleans, he will serve the southern U.S. and Gulf areas with

Ameron's full line of high-perform- ance marine coatings and antifou- lants developed for deep-draft and riverine vessels, workboats and barges, and commercial fishing craft.

Before joining Ameron, Mr. Se- merad spent 35 years with the Far- boil Company, most recently as manager of the company's U.S.

Gulf, West Coast, and Inland Wa- terways Division. Farboil is a manu- facturer of marine and industrial finishes.

Cambridge Instruments

Completes New Plant

Cambridge Instruments recently announced the completion of a new 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located in Monsey, N.Y.

The new facility, in addition to the present 250,000-square-foot structure, will house all manufac- turing, quality control, shipping/ receiving and storage facilities for the firm. It will provide a new, clean area for the manufacture of heat treating furnace control systems and high pressure boiler feed water analyzers, as well as bringing all engineering, sales, marketing and manufacturing operations under one roof. The company moved its manufacturing operation from Os- sining, N.Y. to Monsey last Decem- ber.

Cambridge Instruments is one of the leading manufacturers of carbu- rizing, neutral hardening and car- bonitriding furnace control systems used in the heat treating industry and high pressure boiler feed water analyzers used in industrial and power generating facilities.

For further information on Cam- bridge Instruments' facilities or products,

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Navy Awards Metier $5.6-Million For FASS

Computer Series

Metier Management Systems In- corporated, Houston, Texas, is be- ing awarded a $5,624,322 firm- fixed-price contract for the Funda- mental Automated Scheduling Sys- tem (FASS) computer series used to schedule repairs and overhauls to vessels at naval shipyards. Work will be performed in Portsmouth,

New Hampshire (13 percent), Pearl

Harbor, Hawaii (12 percent), Long

Beach, Calif. (11 percent), Philadel- phia, Pa. (13 percent), Charleston,

S.C. (11 percent), Puget Sound,

Wash. (10 percent), Norfolk, Va. (11 percent), Mare Island, Calif. (11 percent) and the Naval Sea Systems

Command Automated Data Sys- tems Activity, Indian Head, Md. (8 percent), and is expected to be com- pleted in August 1990. Contract funds would have expired at the end of the current fiscal year. Forty- three bids were solicited and five offers were received. The Naval Re- gional Contracting Center, Wash- ington, D.C., is the contracting ac- tivity.

Fear Joins INMARSAT In

Service Development Post

At London Headquarters

Capt. James Fear, formerly with the U.S. Coast Guard, has accepted an appointment as service development officer of the London- based International Maritime Satel- lite Organization (INMARSAT).

Capt. Fear was, until recently, chief of staff for the Third Coast

Guard District at Governors Island,

N.Y. In addition to commanding several USCG vessels, he has been chief of Coast Guard telecommuni- cations, and has served as technical adviser to the U.S. delegation to the

INMARSAT Preparatory Commit- tee, so he is fully familiar with the system and its potential.

He has also been closely involved with the International Maritime Or- ganization (IMO), and the develop- ment of the Future Global Maritime

Distress and Safety System, experi- ence that will be invaluable in his new INMARSAT role. ism. 16 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News