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Scorpion To Distribute Connector

Products

Scorpion Oceanics Ltd. has announced its appointment as exclusive distributor for the U.K. and Ireland on behalf of

Birns Inc. Connector Products of Oxnard,

Calif. The agreement covers all Birns' product lines, including cables, ropes, ter- minations and mouldings as well as a high quality connector range.

HSBC Gibbs Expands Into Marine

Reinsurance

International insurance broker HSBC

Gibbs has completed the package of ser- vices offered by its Marine Division by

Establishing a presence in the marine reinsurance market. Michael

VaiWervord has been appointed division- al director in the Marine Division. He has moae than 20 years of experience in marine \einsurance, and has been employed By Hogg Robinson and Steel

Burrill Jones\Andrew Hinds, formerly of

Alwen Hough Johnson, will also join the, reinsurance tea

SARS Wins Two New

Appointments

London-based Shipping Agency

Representation Services Lt\ (SARS) has been appointed U.K. representative for two international shipping agency com- panies — South America!/ Ian Baylor Y

Compania SA and Si^ivan Snapping

Agencies of Malta.

White Joins TT/flub

Jim White, soon to retire as director general of the British International

Freight Assignation (BIFA), will join the

TT Club as/a consultant. Having started his workuig career with British Rail, Mr.

White idined Sea Containers in 1969 and then Gloved into freight forwarding with

Trustee International Freight Services 1974. rIn 1986, he joined the U.K. Institute of

Freight Forwarders, ascending to the position of general director, and in 1989 was instrumental in the creation of BIFA, an organization embracing more than 1,100 companies operating in interna- tional freight services.

The TT Club provides liability and equipment insurance to ship operators, stevedores, terminal and depot operators, port authorities and freight forwarders.

Madrigal-Wan Hai Announces

New Vietnam Service

Madrigal-Wan Hai Lines, a leading car- rier of rolling stock, industrial machinery and other breakbulk and project cargo between the U.S. West Coast and Asia, has announced a new service to Vietnam.

Effective Dec. 10 with the sailing of

National Honor, breakbulk cargo will be accepted for the Port of Ho Chi Minh City.

Cargo will be transshipped over Manila resulting in a transit of approximately 26 days. At this time, the line does nbt have plans to provide container service into

Vietnam.

Samoa Joins IMO

The membership of the International

Maritime Organization (IMO) — the

United Agency concerned with shipping safety and the prevention of pollution from ships — h^s increased to 154. The

Independent State of Western Samoa became the latest country to join when its instrument/ accepting the IMO

Convention was deposited with the

United Nations on Oct. 25.

Straub Marine Appoints

Di/tributor larine Ventures Ltd., an ISO 9002 cer- tified company based in Reading,

England, has announced its appointment as the exclusive U.K marine distributor for Straub pipe couplings.

The company has supplied IMO- approved, anti-pollution equipment to ship operators, shipbuilders and ship repairers for more than 22 years.

Straub's . couplings are reportedly designed with built-in dampening effect and a fitting tolerance that joins mis- aligned pipes securely.

Dutra Group Appoints Executives

Harry K. Stewart has recently been promoted to chief operating officer of The ltra Group in San Rafael, Calif. A 14- iar veteran of the firm, prior to this lat- est appointment he served as East Coast division manager based in Miami.

Richard Jackson will fill the role of

East cSast division manager.

Uniservice Hires Myers

As part oKits worldwide expansion efforts, Uniser\ce Americas, Slidell, La., has hired Bill Myers as a senior account representative. Hte has 20 years of expe- rience in the marine chemical industry, with expertise in water treatment tech- nologies and ballast tank coatings. He will work directly witfty the company's worldwide coatings and irkpection team, and will operate out of Sliaall. 120

Naess Joins Automar Board

American Automar, Inc., Bethes^a, Md., has announced the election of Mjphael

R. Naess to its board of directors

Mr. Naess joined the Automar btard following the merger of Arethus (Offshore) Ltd., a public drilling compan^ of which he was chairman, into Diamond

Offshore Drilling, Inc., controlled by

Loews Corp.

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