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Wallenius Delivers 100,000th Deere Unit At

Galveston

Earlier this year, Woodcliff Lake,

N.J.-based Wallenius Lines' M7S

Aida delivered the 100,000th

Deere & Company unit at the Port of Galveston. The unit, a special tractor, was driven aboard Aida in

Antwerp, Belgium, by Richard

Ruf, general manager of Deere

Tractor Works, Mannheim,

Germany.

According to Ernest Connor, general manager of the Port of

Galveston, "Galveston is the Gulf of Mexico operations center for

Wallenius Lines, and because of

Wallenius, Galveston is the leading

Gulf port for mobile machinery."

With the shipment, Wallenius

Lines and Deere & Co. marked a milestone in their business rela- tionship. Deere & Co., the Illinois- based manufacturer of agricultural machinery, has been shipping trac- tors on Wallenius' vessels for three decades. Units manufactured at the Mannheim work factory are transported on the Rhine River to

Antwerp, where they are driven aboard RoRos destined for the U.S.

The Port of Galveston is located 30 minutes from the open sea at the mouth of Galveston Bay, and has facilities capable of handling all types of cargo, including con- tainers, import and export dry bulks, breakbulk commodities and a variety of mobile machinery.

ASME Recognizes

Aqua-Dyne For

Engineering Achievements

Earlier this year, the Petroleum

Division of the American Society of

Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awarded its Thayer Mechanical

Engineering Achievement Award to Houston, Texas-based Aqua-

Dyne, Inc., largely due to the com- pany's development of a patented recycle tank cleansing system.

The tank cleansing system report- edly removes and separates heavy sludge from tanks without manual entry. Aqua-Dyne has stated that the equipment is capable of break- ing down heavy asphalt sludge into oil, water and solid residues which contain less than two percent residual hydrocarbon content.

Aqua-Dyne manufactures pumps and waterjet cleaning units and custom systems, used for removing coatings from ship hulls, concrete and manufacturing equipment, and for removing mineral deposits in heat exchangers and water lines. The company's new waterjet cutting system operates at 35,000 - 20,000 psi, and uses inexpensive copper slag as the abrasive.

For more information on

ASNE Day Features

Presentation Of 1995

Awards

The American Society of Naval

Engineers (ASNE) recognized the society's 1995 award recipients at its annual ASNE Day conference, held in Washington, D.C., in

March. Among those recognized were: Cdr. Kurt Harris, UNS;

Carl O. Brady, General Electric

Co.; Kurt Yankaskas, Naval Sea

Systems Command; Thomas C.

Slotwinski, Applied Measure- ment Systems; Donna S. Walker,

ASNE Tidewater Section;

Laurence R. Dutton, former chief design engineer, Norfolk

Naval shipyard; and Roger H.

Compton, U.S. Naval Academy.

The ASNE Annual Awards

Program recognizes individuals who have made significant contri- butions to the field of naval engi- neering through personal involve- ment, research, scholarly publica- tions, service to the society and lifetime achievement.

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