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People & Company News Burns Chosen As New Director The American Waterways Operators (AWO), has elected Anne Davis Burns as its new director of public affairs. AWO is the national trade association for the tugboat, towboat and barge industry. Burns joins the Association's senior advocacy team to oversee public outreach efforts, including a new image campaign recently undertaken by AWO to provide education on the industry and its Responsible Carrier Program. ny's Mission? boilers and control sys-tems. PRIME Completes Pierside Repairs Pacific Rim Industrial Marine Engi-neering (PRIME) marked its first year of operation with the completion of pier-side repairs and alterations to super-tanker Denali. Since moving to Port Angeles, Wash, in the fall of 1998, the company has per-formed nine tanker pierside repair avail-abilities on vessels such as Prince William Sound and Tonsina. Repairs have also been accomplished on a dozen vessels at anchor in Port Angeles harbor. Specializing in voyage repairs and UCCG Critical Area Inspection Pro-gram (CAIP) surveys and repair, the company's facilities include a complete machine shop and steel structural fabri-cation shop, as well as a pipe and valve repair shop. Circle 54 on Reader Service Card M. Rosenblatt Promotes Vlaun M. Rosenblatt & Son (MR&S) has promoted Richard C. Vlaun as tech-nical director responsible for nine technical sec-tions and more than 200 person-nel. Vlaun joined MR&S as senior pro-ject engineer after retiring from the United States Coast Guard in September 1998. Cenargo Acquires Norse Irish Ferries Cenargo International, owner of Mer-chant Ferries and Belfast Freight Fer-ries, has completed its acquisition of Norse Irish Ferries, operator of a twice-daily ferry service carrying passengers between Liverpool and Belfast. Neither Cenargo nor the vendor, Grover Star Shipping Corp., has revealed the trans-action value. Autronica Extends Distribution Agreement Autronica Marine USA of Northvale, N.J. and Navia Maritime, Division Autronica A/S, Trondheim, Norway, have extended their 18-year association via a new Exclusive Distributorship Agreement. The signing of this document ensures that Autronica Marine USA is the sole exclusive U.S. distributor/service provider for Autronica, thus continuing to supply and support their U.S.-based customers, as well as vessels housed with Autronica when calling in U.S. ports. Aalborg Elects New R&D Manager Aalborg Industries, Denmark appoint-ed Bent 0rndrup Nielsen as R&D manager of the company as of August 1999. Nielsen, who began his career with Aalborg Shipyard calculating ship propulsion plant and machinery, will head further development of the compa-November, 1999 93 Circle 279 on Reader Service Card Circle 229 on Reader Service Card Circle 256 on Reader Service Card Model S-203C S-203 CHT For vessels over 75 meters in length, this design allows both whistles to exceed 143 dB (1/3 octave band). The S-2036 and S-203 CHT are virtually mainte-nance free Durability is ensured by the use of bronze and marine aluminum construction materials through out. For the most extreme cold weather operation, Model S-203 CHT (shown) includes a thermostatically con-trolled, heated enclosure for both the combination manual/electric valve, and the horn sounding body. 1 , uiu uuiii.co an oscillating piston driven by 7-1/2 horse-power 3 phase 220/440 volt electric motor producing 143 dB and a funda-mental frequency of 94 Hz in 1/3 octave band at one meter. 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