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Alsthom Awarded Contract

To Build Two Dredges

For Mexican Authority

Chantiers de l'Atlantique, the shipbuilding division of Alsthom-

Atlantique in France, recently an- nounced receipt of an order for two 4,000-cubic-meter dredges for the

Mexican Dredging Authority. The contract follows the signing of a pro- tocol in Mexico City in December of last year. The dredges are scheduled for delivery at the end of 1987 and the beginning of 1988.

The l'Atlantique shipyard in St.

Nazaire is currently building what will be the world's largest cruise lin- er, the 70,000-gt Sovereign of the

Seas, under construction for Royal

Caribbean Cruise Line.

For information on the St. Na- zaire yard's capabilities and facili- ties,

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ABS Elects New Members

To Board Of Managers

Six maritime executives were elected to the board of managers of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for three-year terms at the recent annual meeting of the inter- national clas ification society held at the new world headquarters in

Paramus, N.J.

Management of ABS is vested in its board of managers, whose re- sponsibilities include the election and confirmation of people for ser- vice on ABS management, finance, audit, and classification commit- tees, as well as on the technical com- mittee.

The newly elected managers are:

Edward J. Campbell, president and chief executive officer, Newport

News Shipbuilding; Joji Hayashi, executive vice president and chief operating officer, American Presi- dent Lines; Vice Adm. William H.

Rowden, USN, Commander, Nav- al Sea Systems Command; George

H. Walls, director, United Fruit

Company; Douglas C. Wolcott, president, Chevron Shipping Com- pany; and George S. Zacharkow, chairman, Marine Office of America

Corporation.

Metropolitan Expands Shop

Capacity And Inventory

Metropolitan Master Machinists, manufacturing division of Metro- politan Plumbing Supply Corpora- tion, has doubled their shop capac- ity and tripled their inventory of marine and shipbuilding and repair- ing valves, fittings, strainers, flanges and expansion joints up to 60 inches.

Available in stock in cast steel, iron, bronze, aluminum, ductile, forged steel, stainless and monel, the company offers a wide inventory of manifolds, cross valves, hose valves, check valves, gate valves, globe valves and angle valves.

For further information and liter- ature on the full line of products offered by Metropolitan Plumbing,

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ASNE Symposium-1986

Set For October 2-4

In Biloxi, Miss.

The American Society of Naval

Engineers (ASNE) and the Supervi- sor of Shipbuilding, Pascagoula,

Miss., are sponsoring a symposium in Biloxi, Miss., October 2 through

October 4, 1986. The symposium is titled "Destroyer, Cruiser & Frigate

Technology."

The symposium is planned to bring the Navy and industry to- gether for an interchange of techni- cal ideas for future ship designs. It is intended that the invited technical papers will provide a survey of the current technology in the topic field.

It is not intended to be too futuris- tic, neither is it intended to be what is going on today. Perhaps one way to think of it would be technology for the next major class to be de- signed within this century.

The symposium is scheduled to begin on Thursday, October 2, 1986, at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coli- seum. The nearly Hilton Hotel has set aside a large block of rooms for attendees with bus transportation to be provided to the coliseum.

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