Page 62: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (April 1986)

Voigt Shipping Reorganizes —Elects Nick G. Koutroulis

President Of Renamed Firm

F.A. Voigt & Company B.V. of

Rotterdam has purchased all out- standing shares of Houston-based

F.A. Voigt shipping Company, and has reorganized and renamed the firm Voigt & Koutroulis Shipping

Company. The changes were an- nounced by Voigt chairman of the board Wieger J. de Ruiter.

Nick G. Koutroulis, formerly executive vice president of F.A.

Voigt Shipping Company, has been elected president of Voigt & Kou- troulis and will be a minority share- holder of the new company. For the past three years, he has been in charge of Voigt's overall shipping operations in the U.S. Voigt & Kou- troulis will establish its principal office in Houston, with several addi- tional offices planned.

Voigt & Koutroulis Shipping

Company will specialize in liner agency services, along with charter- ing, ship brokering, and husband- ing.

East Asiatic Limited-Trans Pa- cific Service, Frota Amazonica, Fro- ta Oceanica, Sudan Lines, South

Seas Steamship Lines, and a num- ber of bulker and tramp services are

Impact, abrasives and friction can all be working away at your rudder bearings without you knowing it. Until it's too late.

That's why it's wise to assume that your rudder bearings will always be getting rough treatment. Then you can prepare for it. With

Thordon installed.

Whether it's at the pintle, the stock or the steering gear, Thordon delivers better perform- ance than anything else you're using now.

Consider shock-resistance. A sudden impact that would crack a phenolic or deform a bronze bearing has no effect on Thordon. It absorbs the shock and bounces back.

Consider steering torque. It's less with

Thordon, thanks to its lower co-efficient of friction.

Consider service. Thordon raw stock is warehoused in 50 countries around the world. So wherever there's a Thordon distributor and a lathe, there's a Thordon rudder bearing.

Cut the odds on premature rudder bearing failure. Get all the facts on Thordon, and start betting on a sure thing.

ThiinJun

IT UIORKS HARD. VOU REST EHSV.

WRITE FOR COMPLETE PERFORMANCE DETAILS TO:

THOMSON

GORDON

LIMITED 3225 Mainway, Burlington

Ontario. Canada L7M 1A6

Telephone (416) 335-1440

Telex Number 061-8705

We wrote the book!

We've specialized in maritime boiler/pressure tubing and pipe fabrication and replacement parts since 1944.

Write or call today for your FREE copy of our newly revised and enlarged booklet.

MURRAY

TUBE WORKS

MURRAY TUBE WORKS

PO Box 2065 • Union NJ 07083 (800) 631-5410 • (201) 354-1130

Telex: 844840 A Division of Senior Green Inc. ©1986 Senior Green Inc.

Circle 189 on Reader Service Card

INDUSTRY-PROVEN RESERVOIRS

FROM HYDRO-CRAFT

Contact us today for our full-line catalog 1821 ROCHESTER INDUSTRIAL DR.

ROCHESTER, MICHIGAN 48063 (313)652-8100 TELEX 023-5677

Circle 236 on Reader Service Card Circle 188 on Reader Service Card represented by Voigt & Koutroulis.

Negotiations are underway for addi- tional liner services.

Voigt & Koutroulis Shipping

Company is headquartered at 2190

North Loop West, Suite 103, Hous- ton, Texas 77018, telephone (713) 957-3445; telex number is 794234.

Alsthom Awarded Order

To Build Two Dredges

For Mexican Government

Alsthom of France confirms that a protocol was signed in Mexico City recently for the constructin of two 4,000-cubic-meter dredges for the

Mexican Maritime Authority. These dredges are to be built by Alsthom shipyards in the Loire-Atlantic, not- ably to Dubigeon in Nantes. This protocol puts into effect the finan- cial protocol signed last year by the governments of Mexico and France for that purpose.

Marangiello Elected

Chairman of ASTM

Shipbuilding Committee 66

Daniel Marangiello

Daniel A. Marangiello, execu- tive scientist at ORI, Inc., has been elected to a two-year term as chair- man of the Shipbuilding Committee (F-25) of the American Society of

Testing & Materials. The prime job of this committee is to develop non- government specifications and stan- dards to replace Mil Specs and

Standards where possible.

After attending Harvard College for two years, Mr. Marangiello attended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in 1951. He earned an MS degree in naval engineering from MIT in 1956. He served in the

Navy from 1951 to 1966, with sea duty in surface ships and subma- rines, and shore assignments in both public and private shipyards, as well as other line and staff assignments in Washington and field activities as a qualified engineering duty officer.

In 1967-69 he was manager-naval architecture at Westinghouse Elec- tric Corporation. In 1969 he became deputy director of the Naval Sea

Systems Command, where he was civilian director of 115 engineers, technicians, and clerical personnel, and had total responsibility for the maintenance, modernization, and technical and logistic support of all

U.S. Navy submarines. He joined

ORI in 1984, and is currently execu- tive director of the Marine Machin- ery Association.

Maritime Reporter/Engineering News