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MJP Waterjets Elects

Bicoastal Agents

Resulting from the altered structure in the waterjet market, the collaboration between MJP Waterjets and Bird John- son (BJCO) has concluded.

This past December 1999, MJP stated its appointment of two new U.S. bicoastal sales and service agents:

Sound Propeller Services, Seattle on the west coast, and MCR Engineering Co. in North Attleboro in the east.

Marinfloc® Introduces Sludge

Dewatering Unit

Known for its emul- sion breaking bilge water cleaning sys- tems, Marinfloc® has added a new member to its product range — a sludge dewater- ing unit (SDU).

Tested onboard M/S Atlantic Compass and M/S Boheme, Marinfloc's sludge unit reportedly reduces water contents of the sludge water by up to 85 percent -— significantly reducing costs to the shipowner. First results onboard the two test vessels have shown a reduction of water in sludge water by about half.

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Bell, who joined Marex from the healthcare industry, will implement and oversee the company's sales and mem- ber support organizations as it quickly expands into new areas of e-commerce for the marine industry.

Former marketing executive, Todd

Tamcsin, joined Marex.com as vice president of marketing. Tamcsin previ- ously worked for various agencies that serves marine accounts, and also spent five years as southeast sales manager for

Boating Magazine.

Briggs Retires From

Matson Navigation

Ronald F. Briggs. general manager, engineering and fleet maintenance, took an early retirement from Matson Navi- gation company on January 1. Briggs, who had been with the company for 22 years, held a career that encompassed many significant accomplishments, not only with Matson, but for the U.S. Mer- chant Marine as a whole.

Briggs holds a B.S. in Engineering and an M.S. in Naval Architecture from the University of California Berkeley.

He has been a member of SNAME since 1970.

SHIPBOARD

ENGINEERING

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Dayton T. Brown, Inc. has 50 years of engi- neering & testing experience and affords you a complete range of dynamic, environmental, atmospheric and electromagnetic testing facilities as well as engineering consulting services in a centralized location.

Con-Tech Hosts Nigerian Teams

Con-Tech Power Systems, Inc. and

Con-Tech Automation & Control, Inc. hosted an inspection and test team from

Nigeria for product demonstration and testing. Con-Tech Power Systems sup- plied a total ship services automation system and a power distribution system to Anatron Corp. of Holland. The sys- tem will be installed on the Nigerian vessel, NNS Ofiom - a 20-year-old LST

Landing Craft. Ofiom is the first of a vessel trio earmarked for automation system retrofitting by the Nigerian

Navy. Set for a March 2000 installation, the system was shipped in December.

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Delepine Elected VP At Aker

Aker Engineering has appointed Yves

Delepine vice president of naval archi- tecture and marine engineering.

Delepine, who has more than 20 years of experience in the offshore industry, has been with Aker for the past 12, coor- dinating various front end engineering design studies and participating in the execution of FPSO and Spar projects.

He was also instrumental in the Liuhua

FPSO projects from conception through construction, and spent two years on the

King field development project.

Marex.com Adds To Sales Staff

Marex.com, one of the largest e-com- merce companies serving the marine

February, 2000

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