ABS Forms Strategic
Marketing Team
To Promote LNG Expertise
The American Bureau of Ship-
ping, one of the world's leading ship
classification societies, has formed a
Strategic Marketing Team to pro-
vide clients more timely access to its
experience and technical expertise
and to assist prospective clients in
the development of liquefied natu-
ral gas and liquefied petroleum gas
(LNG/LPG) projects.
Established by ABS chairman
Frank Iarossi, the team has been
given the following directives: Pres-
ent the LNG capabilities of ABS in
large and small forums by speaking
at technical conferences and by
making specific, focused presenta-
tions to individual clients; Provide
added technical expertise when
ABS's three regional companies
(ABS Americas, ABS Europe, and
ABS Pacific) are seeking new gas-
carrier business opportunities; and
Extend ABS gas-carrier expertise
by assisting with ABS rule-develop-
ment and R&D projects.
Since the classification of the first
LNG carrier (Methane Pioneer) in
1958, ABS has been in the forefront
of LNG technology. Presently the
first two LNG carriers utilizing the
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self-supporting prismatic type-B
(SPB) containment system are be-
ing built by IHI in Japan for Mara-
thon/Phillips to ABS class for de-
livery in 1993. ABS has 98 liquefied-
gas carriers in class, and more than
40 percent of LNG carriers world-
wide with capacities above 50,000
cubic meters have been built to ABS
class.
Singmarine Launches
RO/RO Container Vessel
Singmarine Industries Limited
(Singmarine), through its subsidiary
Singmarine Dockyard & Engineer-
ing Ptd Ltd. (Singmarine Dock-
yard), has successfully launched a
120-TEU roll-on/roll-off container
vessel, Searoad Mersey, for its own-
er ANL Limited.
The contract, worth S$23 million
(about $13.3 million) was awarded
to Singmarine Dockyard in August
1989 by ANL Limited.
The Searoad Mersey, with a
length of about 300 feet and a
breadth of 60.6 feet, is fitted with a
remote control ballast system and
an automatic heeling control and
stabilizing system. In addition, ma-
neuverability and fuel economy of
the vessel are enhanced by its two
4,400-bhp engines which run on
heavy fuel oil, and two controllable
pitch propellers.
The vessel has a service speed of
16 knots and can carry 120 trailers
on its two vehicle decks. Accessibili-
ty for trucks and forklifts to each
deck are through two stern ramp
doors.
In clinching the S$52 million con-
tract (about $30.2 million) recently
for the world's largest well stimula-
tion vessel for Western Petroleum
Services International, Singmarine
Dockyard is poised to develop a
market niche in the building of such
offshore vessels.
Jerald Tinkey Joins
Ingram Barge Company
Jerald A. (Jerry) Tinkey has
joined Ingram Barge Company,
Nashville, Tenn., as vice president
of operations. He will be headquar-
tered the company's Paducah of-
fice.
In his new position, Mr. Tinkey
will be responsible for vessel opera-
tions, purchasing and Great River
Marine Service.
Mr. Tinkey began his career in
1952 as a deckhand. He comes to
Ingram from Mid-America Trans-
portation Company, St. Louis. Join-
ing Mid-America Transportation in
1957, he rose through the ranks to
become its president in 1985, and
continued in that position until the
company was sold earlier this year.
Ingram Barge Company is a sub-
sidiary of Ingram Industries Inc.,
headquartered in Nashville, Tenn.
Ingram is a privately-held diversi-
fied corporation engaged in inland
marine barging and aggregate sup-
ply, consumer product distribution,
coal production and sales, oil explo-
ration and production, the manu-
facture of wellhead equipment, and
insurance.
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