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ABS Forms Strategic

Marketing Team

To Promote LNG Expertise

The American Bureau of Ship- ping, one of the world's leading ship classification societies, has formed a

Strategic Marketing Team to pro- vide clients more timely access to its experience and technical expertise and to assist prospective clients in the development of liquefied natu- ral gas and liquefied petroleum gas (LNG/LPG) projects.

Established by ABS chairman

Frank Iarossi, the team has been given the following directives: Pres- ent the LNG capabilities of ABS in large and small forums by speaking at technical conferences and by making specific, focused presenta- tions to individual clients; Provide added technical expertise when

ABS's three regional companies (ABS Americas, ABS Europe, and

ABS Pacific) are seeking new gas- carrier business opportunities; and

Extend ABS gas-carrier expertise by assisting with ABS rule-develop- ment and R&D projects.

Since the classification of the first

LNG carrier (Methane Pioneer) in 1958, ABS has been in the forefront of LNG technology. Presently the first two LNG carriers utilizing the

Circle 342 on Reader Service Card self-supporting prismatic type-B (SPB) containment system are be- ing built by IHI in Japan for Mara- thon/Phillips to ABS class for de- livery in 1993. ABS has 98 liquefied- gas carriers in class, and more than 40 percent of LNG carriers world- wide with capacities above 50,000 cubic meters have been built to ABS class.

Singmarine Launches

RO/RO Container Vessel

Singmarine Industries Limited (Singmarine), through its subsidiary

Singmarine Dockyard & Engineer- ing Ptd Ltd. (Singmarine Dock- yard), has successfully launched a 120-TEU roll-on/roll-off container vessel, Searoad Mersey, for its own- er ANL Limited.

The contract, worth S$23 million (about $13.3 million) was awarded to Singmarine Dockyard in August 1989 by ANL Limited.

The Searoad Mersey, with a length of about 300 feet and a breadth of 60.6 feet, is fitted with a remote control ballast system and an automatic heeling control and stabilizing system. In addition, ma- neuverability and fuel economy of the vessel are enhanced by its two 4,400-bhp engines which run on heavy fuel oil, and two controllable pitch propellers.

The vessel has a service speed of 16 knots and can carry 120 trailers on its two vehicle decks. Accessibili- ty for trucks and forklifts to each deck are through two stern ramp doors.

In clinching the S$52 million con- tract (about $30.2 million) recently for the world's largest well stimula- tion vessel for Western Petroleum

Services International, Singmarine

Dockyard is poised to develop a market niche in the building of such offshore vessels.

Jerald Tinkey Joins

Ingram Barge Company

Jerald A. (Jerry) Tinkey has joined Ingram Barge Company,

Nashville, Tenn., as vice president of operations. He will be headquar- tered the company's Paducah of- fice.

In his new position, Mr. Tinkey will be responsible for vessel opera- tions, purchasing and Great River

Marine Service.

Mr. Tinkey began his career in 1952 as a deckhand. He comes to

Ingram from Mid-America Trans- portation Company, St. Louis. Join- ing Mid-America Transportation in 1957, he rose through the ranks to become its president in 1985, and continued in that position until the company was sold earlier this year.

Ingram Barge Company is a sub- sidiary of Ingram Industries Inc., headquartered in Nashville, Tenn.

Ingram is a privately-held diversi- fied corporation engaged in inland marine barging and aggregate sup- ply, consumer product distribution, coal production and sales, oil explo- ration and production, the manu- facture of wellhead equipment, and insurance.

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