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New England Trawler

Expands Engineering Staff

New England Trawler Equipment

Company has added Lawrence W.

Hills as a new senior design engi- neer. A graduate of Lewis and Clark

College, Mr. Hills received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from

Brigham Young University. Mr.

Hills, who has extensive experi- ence in the areas of product system design, project management and field installation and trouble shoot- ing, joins the company after more than 10 years with Raytheon in the

Submarine Signal Division. There, as senior engineer, mechanical sys- tems, he led projects in a wide as- sortment of marine applications in- cluding deck machinery and ship machinery systems. Prior work ex- periences include Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institute and David

W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and

Development Center. Mr. Hills, who speaks both Italian and Spanish, has directed installation and sea trials of sonar towing systems in

Spain, Italy and Egypt. He devel- oped and taught a system opera- tional and maintenance training course for the officers and technical personnel of the Italian Navy.

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Norcontrol, Atlantis

Awarded $9 Million

Canadian Order

The Canadian Coast Guard, Ship

Safety Branch, has awarded con- tracts for the delivery of four Blind

Pilotage Simulators and five Ma- rine Control Room and System

Simulators to a consortium consist- ing of Norcontrol Simulation a.s. and Atlantis Aerospace Corporation.

These contracts represent a value of approximately $9 million includ- ing the Canadian content.

The Norcontrol contract calls for four Blind Pilotage Simulators, each with four Own Ship Cubicles with navigation equipment currently being used in the Canadian mer- chant marine, and five Norcontrol

Propulsion Plant Trainers (marine control and systems simulators), each simulating and enabling for training on two different ship motor types, MaK and Sulzer.

A student performance and ex- amination system will be part of the delivery. The delivery program has started and will be completed by

August 1994. The simulators are scheduled to be installed in differ- ent marine institutes and colleges throughout Canada.

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NRC Appoints New Vice

President of Operations

The National Response Corpora- tion (NRC) recently announced the appointment of Stan Cwiklinski

September, 1992 as vice president of operations. A graduate of LaSalle University in

Philadelphia, Mr. Cwiklinski joins

NRC from Phillips Cartner & Com- pany, Inc. (PCCI) where he was a primary oil spill response field op- erations manager since 1988. Pre- viously he had been a special opera- tions warfare officer in the U.S.

Navy, completing his career with the rank of Commander.

Mr. Cwiklinski brings more than 25 years of hands-on, field- tested experience to the NRC man- agement team. In the Navy he operated for nine years on salvage, rescue and diving ships, and coordi- nated Atlantic Fleet oil spill pollu- tion abatement/control readiness and rapid-response efforts.

With PCCI he directed major spill response operations for the U.S.

Navy Supervisor of Salvage (SUPSALV) during, among others, the Exxon Valdez and American

Trader spills. Most recently he es- tablished the Emergency Persian

Gulf Ship Salvage Material Storage and Maintenance Base for

SUPSALV during Operation Desert

Storm.

Hempel Appoints

New Board Member

Leif J uul Jorgensen, president and chief executive officer of the

Hempel Group, has announced the appointment of J.G. Davis C.B.E. to the Board of Directors of Hempel

Paints Limited in London.

Mr. Davis is well known in ma- rine circles, in particular through his chairmanship of the Interna- tional Maritime Industries Forum.

The appointment is part of Mr.

Jorgensen's strategy of strength- ening Hempel world-wide for the challenges of the future.

Bisso Marine Awarded

Salvage Contract

Bisso Marine Company, Inc.,

New Orleans, has been awarded the salvage contract to raise the 200-foot by 45-foot lineboat M/V

Chris Way MacMillan. The vessel is sunk at mile 106.8 of the left descending bank near the Huey P.

Long Bridge on the Mississippi

River. The salvage operation began

August 17, 1992.

The company has also completed the salvage operation of the dredge

Port Arthur on the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The vessel sank on her port side on June 28, 1992.

Bisso used three of its derricks to raise the 1,400-ton vessel to the surface.

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Autronica Wins Orders

Worth $11.2 Million

From Kvaerner Shipyards

After intense competition,

Autronica Marine, of Oslo, Norway, has won NOK 65 million ($11,154,000) in major orders from the Kvaerner Kleven and the

Kvaerner Govan shipyards for equipment to outfit three vessels on order for Odfjell and six ships for Storli.

Autronica will deliver cargo con- trol and monitoring equipment based on the company's GL-90 ra- dar level gauging system, ballast and service tank temperature sen- sors and pressure transducers, and machinery control and monitoring equipment for all vessels.

For the Storli ship account,

Autronica will deliver condition con- trol equipment and an MlP-calcula- tor.

The orders require equipment de- livery from 1992 until 1995.

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