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Atlantic Marine Announces

Three Senior Management

Promotions

At a recent board of directors meeting, Atlantic Marine, Inc.,

Mobile, Ala., announced there se- nior management promotions.

The company's controller and assistant secretary-treasurer since March 1989, Dean R. Kelly, is now vice president and chief financial officer of both Atlantic

Marine and Alabama Shipyard,

Inc. Mr. Kelly has been employed by Atlantic in various accounting/ finance positions since January 1981.

Stephen R. Johnson was pro- moted from production manager to vice president of production.

He has 20 years of maritime in- dustry experience which includes vessel operations, vessel manage- ment, new construction and ves- sel repair shipyard management.

Mr. Johnson joined Atlantic in 1991 as production manager.

The company's new vice presi- dent of sales and marketing,

David A. Enman, was promoted from the position of manager esti- mating and marketing. Begin- ning his career as a graduate ap- prentice at Bath Iron Works,

Maine, Mr. Enman joined Atlan- tic in October 1989 as project man- ager and soon moved into the po- sition of estimating manager, a position he held for 18 months. As vice president of sales and mar- keting, he will be responsible for business development.

APL Asks For MarAd OK

To Extend Feeder Services

The Oakland, Calif.-based

American President Lines (APL),

Ltd., is asking for permission from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd) to continue its Far East and Middle East foreign-flag feedership services until 1998, when its operating subsidy con- tract expires.

U.S.-flag operators seeking to operate foreign-flag ships that might compete with other U.S. shipping companies must first seek a special waiver for a specific period of time from MarAd.

APL is also requesting author- ity to increase the authorized ca- pacity of one of its Red Sea re- gional feeder vessels to the equiva- lent of 500 forty-foot cargo con- tainers from its current 350 boxes.

MarAd has already granted

APL permission to charter a containership to Lykes Brothers

Steamship Company, Inc., New

Orleans, for one year.

As part of current regulations governing companies such as APL that receive government subsidies to offset the cheaper operating costs of foreign-flag competition,

MarAd must approve all of these activities.

August, 1992

NKF Engineering Offers

LAYERS Computer Code

For Acoustic Design

NKF Engineering, Inc., of Arling- ton, Va., with over 35 years of experi- ence in acoustic analysis and testing, announced the release of the LAY-

ERS 1.0 computer code for design of acoustic enclosures for marine ma- chinery.

A state-of-the-art computation tool, LAYERS allows the user to rapidly achieve the optimum enclo- sure design by providing fast and accurate transmission loss (TL) pre- dictions through a desired frequency range. The TL for any layered panel is made realistic by accounting for compressional and shear waves, damping, field incidence and mass.

Octave or third octave band compu- tations are available and include band averaging for complex inci- dence patterns as a standard fea- ture.

The LAYERS software package has been used in marine applica- tions involving treated decks, double partitions, suspended overheads, double-treated bulkheads and acous- tic enclosures.

To receive a free brochure detail- ing the capabilities of NKF

Engineering's LAYERS 1.0 com- puter code,

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