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Maritrans Announces

Streamlining

Maritrans Inc. has announced streamlining tactics designed to en- hance shareholder value and im- proved customer service.

As part of the company-wide streamlining, the size and role of the corporate office are being radi- cally reduced.

Stephen A. Van Dyck, chair- man and CEO, commented, "Our continuing efforts of cost reduction and disposal of non-strategic assets will enable us to accelerate our move into the petroleum product distri- bution services business, which is the emerging focus of our long-term strategy."

Maritrans owns and operates a fleet of tugboats and oceangoing pe- troleum tank barges along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts. Maritrans also owns and operates oil storage termi- nals on the Atlantic Coast and pro- vides oil spill contingency planning and clean-up management services to vessel owners.

APL To Build Three New

Ships At Daewoo

American President Companies (APC), American President Lines' (APL) parent company, has entered into an agreement with Daewoo

Shipbuilding and Heavy Machin-

How to Operate More Efficiently At Lower

Cost With Tranter Plate-type Heat Exchangers

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Naval ships, fleet oilers, commercial containerships, tankers and dredges are successfully finding new ways to operate more efficiently at lower cost, by utilizing

Tranter's unsurpassed plate-type heat exchanger technology. Schematics presented here illustrate typical ways they are doing it.

Superchanger® plate and frame heat exchangers are used in a wide variety of shipboard applications—particularly for cooling main engine jacket water and cooling main engine lube oil with fresh water or sea- water; cooling the ship's central fresh water; cooling electronic equipment; or recovering heat from condensate. They are far more effi- cient than tubular systems, and provide heat transfer coefficients from two to five times greater than those achieved by shell and tube units. They also require 10% to 50% less deck space and weigh up to one-sixth less.

Superchanger units can be equipped with titanium plates which offer the best resistance to corrosion and erosion when exposed to seawater. Intermixing or cross-contamination of hot and cold liquids is virtually impossible.

Low fouling rates reduce cleaning require- ments for Superchanger units, that are designed for easy maintenance. They can be cleaned-in-place by backflushing, or quickly disassembled by hand, cleaned and put back in operation.

Platecoil® prime surface heat exchangers offer optimum temperature control. A Platecoil bank-in-tank unit provides wide interspaces for effectively passing solids while efficiently heating seawater containing oil from spills.

Platecoil bayonet heaters provide a large amount of efficient primary heating surface in a single unit for maintaining desired temper- atures in storage tanks. These heaters help promote convection currents for better heat transfer rates and tank temperature uniformity.

Platecoil suction heaters provide immediate heating for pumping oil out of tanks.

Tranter plate-type heat exchangers can be supplied in full compliance with codes and specifications as required by the ABS; the

U.S. Coast Guard; shock testing per MIL-S-

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BB MADE IN U.S.A. ® 1993 TRANTER, inc. 650101 ery, Ltd. of Korea, under which

Daewoo will construct three new diesel-powered containerships for delivery in 1996.

Each of the new ships will have a cargo-carrying capacity of approxi- mately 3,600 TEUs, including slots for 250 refrigerated cargo contain- ers, and a service speed of about 23.5 knots. The new ships, in com- bination with capacity from six C11- class ships currently under contract for construction, will replace four chartered vessels now operated in

APL's West Asia/Middle East ser- vice.

The new ship program will cost approximately $ 190 million, and will be financed by funds from a recent debt offering and internally gener- ated cash flow. The agreement is contingent upon the finalization of certain export licensing arrange- ments in Korea.

In announcing the transaction,

APC chairman John M. Lillie said, "These new ships will further strengthen our services in some of the world's fastest-growing trade lanes."

U.S. Ports Support Creation

Of National Transportation

System

U.S. public port agencies greeted

Transportation Secretary Federico

Pena's announcement of the Na- tional Highway System (NHS) with enthusiasm, especially the inclusion of access routes to 104 major ports on the NHS map. American Asso- ciation of Port Authorities (AAPA) president Erik Stromberg complimented Department of Trans- portation efforts to focus on the U.S. transportation system as a whole and include ports and other intermodal facilities in the NHS, as envisioned in the Intermodal Sur- face Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). "The inclusion of port access routes in the National Highway Sys- tem is an important step in getting the appropriate priority and fund- ing for freight projects that meet national commerce needs," said Mr.

Stromberg.

Martin Becomes Marine

Index Bureau Representative

Marine Index Bureau, Inc. (MIB) has announced that Jeanne Mar- tin became an MIB representative based in San Mateo, Calif.

Previously, Ms. Martin worked with American President Lines, Ltd. (APL) in Oakland, Calif., managing personal injury claims made by sea- men and longshoremen. Prior to joining APL, Ms. Martin worked with the U.S. Department of Labor administering claims under the U.S.

Longshoremen's and Harbor Work- ers' Compensation Act.

The Marine Index Bureau is a national clearinghouse of informa- tion on marine employment, injury and claims data. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News