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Officers Elected For

National Association of Maritime Officers

The National Association of Mari- time Officers (NAMO) elected new officers at its annual spring meeting in Norfolk, Virginia.

James S. Provo, senior vice president of T. Parker Host, Inc. of

Norfolk, is NAMO's new president.

He replaces Channing F. Hayden,

Jr., vice president of the New Or- leans Steamship Association, who was instrumental in NAMO's cre- ation.

Serving as vice presidents are

Robert T. Bohlman, senior vice president with Norton Lilly Inter- national in Seattle; Nicholas D.

Manzi, executive vice president of

Rice, Unruh Reynolds Co. in Phila- delphia; Vera Paktor, president of

Communicore, Inc. in Chicago; and

Ted Thorjussen, president of the

Western Gulf Maritime Association in Houston. J.J. Keever, executive vice president of Hampton Roads

Maritime Association, was elected secretary/treasurer.

NAMO, which is based in Nor- folk, is comprised of steamship agen- cies, maritime exchanges, and other maritime organizations, and was created to give those engaged in international maritime activity a vehicle for expression of their views on national policy affecting waterborne commerce. NAMO has had a significant impact on mari- time user fees.

National Response Corp.

Launches First Training

Course

National Response Corp. (NRC), a national oil spill contractor, has announced its first oil response train- ing course to instruct contractors and spill response personnel in mod- ern oil spill control equipment.

The NRC program seeks to pro- vide executives and supervisors the training to manage and guide their personnel when handling equipment used in an oil spill response situa- tion using instructors from NRC equipment manufacturers. Seventy senior executives and supervisors from 30 independent contractors on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts, Puerto

Rico, and the Inland River System attended the first course.

NRC has established an Indepen- dent Contractor Network (ICN) to coordinate and fully utilize existing resources. Network participants have been organized into small, lo- cal groups to ensure close field coor- dination in spill response efforts.

NRC President Mark Miller re- portedly said NRC will follow up the course with continual on-site train- ing.

NRC was formed in response to the requirement of the Oil Pollution

Act of 1990 and various state oil spill laws to improve oil spill re- sponse resources.

Goodway Tools Introduces

The One-Man RAM-4 Model

Goodway Tools Corporation says its new Ream-A-Matic Model RAM- 4 makes tube cleaning a simple, one- person operation.

The unit incorporates a brush or other cleaning tool which is rotated through the tube at the tip of a flexible shaft. As the shaft rotates inside its watertight nylon casing, the unit feeds water through the casing to the cleaning head.

While the operator feeds the ro- tating shaft assembly through the tube, the water flow carries loos- ened deposits into the far header where they are drained off. A sole- noid valve automatically activates the water flow only when the ma- chine is running. Shafts and acces- sories are available for cleaning tubes/pipes 1/4" - 1" I.D.

Typical applications of the Ream-

A-Matic RAM-4 include cleaning heat exchangers, condensers, evapo- rators, absorption machines and chillers.

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September, 1993

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