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TS Tanksystem Awarded

U.S. Newbuilding Contracts

TS Tanksystem SA's hermetic gas tight portable gauging and sampling equipment has been cho- sen by three U.S. shipyards.

Avondale Industries has chosen the equipment for an American

Heavy Lift project, entailing four product tankers; Alabama

Shipyard will use the equipment for its Dannebrog project which includes building two 16,000-dwt chemical tankers plus an option for one more; and Newport News

Shipbuilding will use the equip- ment for its Van Ommeren/Hvide project incorporating five prod- uct/chemical tankers.

Tanksystem's hermetic line is

ISO 9000 certified and reportedly approved by all major classifica- tion societies. The hermetic line is represented in the U.S. and

Canada by its agent American

United Marine Corp., with offices in Boston and New York.

Hermetic Inc. is Tanksystem's fully-owned company.

For more information on TS Tanks/stem

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Crane Heatex Appoints

Klattenberg As Rep

Crane Heatex, an English su sidiary of the Crane Corporation

Stanford, Conn., has appoint*

Klattenberg Marine Agencies t

West Orange, N.J., as its represer tative in the U.S. and Canadt

Crane Heatex is a manufacture and repairer of charged air cooler; and shell and tube heat exchangers for marine applications. Services range from straightforward replace- ment tubestacks to complex thermal and mechanical designs.

For more information on Crane Heatex

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Alabama Shipyard, W&O

Supply Enter Agreement

W&O Supply, Inc. of Jacksonville,

Fla., has entered into a partnering agreement with Alabama Shipyard,

Inc. to supply various valves and spares for the Dannebrog Rederi chemical tanker project.

Construction of these vessels is reportedly underway at the Mobile,

Ala., yard. The agreement covers the ships' major piping systems and includes products manufactured and supplied by Econosto

International B.V., World Valve

Losser, Henry Vogt Machine Co. and

Pres-Vac Engineering.

W&O Supply is a marine industry supplier of valves, pipes, fittings and metals, with stocking distribu- tion warehouses in 15 U.S. ports,

Vancouver, Antwerp and Singapore.

For more information on W&O Supply

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NNS Christens Aircraft

Carrier Harry 5. Truman

At press time, christening cere- monies for aircraft carrier Harry S.

Truman were scheduled to take place at Newport News

Shipbuilding on September 7. The ship is the eighth Nimitz class air- craft carrier to be built by the yard, and it is scheduled for delivery in 1998.

Invited speakers for the ceremoni- al proceedings included Senators

John Warner and Charles Robb of Virginia and Congressman Ike

Skelton of Mississippi. Drucie S.

Horton was named Matron of

Honor to Truman's sponsor,

Margaret Truman Daniel, daugh- ter of President Truman.

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