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COMPANY & PEOPLE NEWS take over Mr. Cantrelle's responsibilities immediately following his retirement.

Delta T Systems Moves To New Facility

Delta T Systems recently moved to a new facility in Jupiter, Fla., to accommodate its increasing growth. The company designs and manufactures marine engine room ventilation systems, and will now reportedly perform most of its manufacturing in-house, including the building of filters and assembly of fans. The new mailing address is: P.O. Box 9159, Jupiter,

FL 33468-9159.

MAN B&W Opens Cyprus Office

MAN B&W Diesel has opened a representa- tive office in Limassol, Cyprus. The general manager of the office is Uffe Poulsen, who has served numerous years at the company's

Copenhagen head office. The aim of the new office is to increase the company's services both for customers based in Cyprus and for ships calling at Cyprian ports.

Aker Engineering Appoints New

President

Knut Eriksen has been named president of

Houston-based Aker Engineering, Inc. He has held various management positions with sever- al Aker Maritime companies in the U.S. and in

Don Logan

Norway, and his previous experience includes positions with Earl & Wright Consulting

Engineers and Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc.

The company specializes in floating produc- tion systems and subsea systems engineering.

MMS Names Logan Operations VP

Marine Management

Systems, Inc. (MMS) has named Don Logan vice presi- dent of Operations, heading up the company's newly estab- lished Client Operations

Division. He previously served as vice president of

Marketing and Sales. "With our continuing expansion, we had a need for more centralized and structured sup- port of our customer operations. Over Don's 17 years at MMS, he has developed a comprehen- sive knowledge of the industry in general, and

MMS' clients in specific. That makes him ideal for heading up this new division," said MMS

President Gene Story.

In other company news, MMS recently forged an alliance with ABS, integrating MMS' soft- ware application FleetWORKS with ABS' new

SafeNet system.

Wyatt To Step Down As Coastal

Chairman

Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr., founder of The Coastal

Corp., announced on March 25 that he will step down as chairman of the board on July 17, but will remain on the company board and continue as chairman of the Executive Committee. The board reportedly accepted his recommendation that Coastal President and CEO David A.

Arledge assume the additional role of chair- man. "At this particular stage of Coastal's growth and expansion, I think it is incumbent on me to make room for the advancement of younger executives," said Mr. Wyatt in a press release circulated to the media.

The company also announced that Jonathan

W. Cook, George E. McCarthy III and

William C. Riley have been named assistant vice presidents.

ISC Executive, Former FMC

Commissioner To Retire

International Shipholding

Corp. (ISC) has announced that George H. Hearn, execu- tive vice president of ISC sub- sidiary Waterman Steamship

Corp. and vice president of

ISC, will retire effective June 30.

Mr. Hearn was appointed to

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson after serving in the Navy in World War II, as a lawyer for a New

York admiralty firm, on New York City Council, and as deputy general counsel to the Civil

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