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Gene M. Woodfin Elected President Marathon Mfg. foot stern door, and 12 interior cargo doors in sizes up to 24 feet by 15 feet will be supplied for each ship. All cargo doors have individual electro-hydraulic power units to permit simple push-button opera- tion. The equipment follows the designs developed over the past 20 years by Walz & Krenzer, Inc. and already in service on the majority of roll-on/roll-off vessels built in this country. Hitachi Building Yards For Very Large Vessels In Japan And Singapore In order to meet world demand for larger ships, Hitachi Zosen is now constructing the Ariake Ship- yard, which will be capable of building UDGCs of up to 400,000- 600,000-dwt. Ariake is located in Kyushu, Japan, and is scheduled to be completed in April 1974. With construction still under way, the shipyard started test operations in April 1973, and will lay the keel for the first ship this autumn. In Singapore, Hitachi Zosen Robin Dockyard (Pte.) Ltd. — a joint venture between Hitachi Zo- sen of Japan, and Robin Shipyard of Singapore—is now building a repair yard which will be capable of accommodating VL'OCs of up to 300,000 dwt when it begins op- erations in the first half of 1974. Gene M. Woodfin Gene M. Woodfin has been elect- ed as president of Marathon Manu- facturing Company, Houston, Tex- as, one of the world's largest producers of drilling rigs for the offshore industry. He succeeds Wayne D. Harbin in that capacity. Mr. Harbin will continue to serve the company as a director and chairman of the board. A spokes- man for the company stated that Mr. Harbin will remain as an inte- gral part of the management of the company and will work with Mr. Woodfin in directing the com- pany's operations. Mr. Woodfin was also elected a director of the company, along with J.R. Butler of Houston, chairman of the board of Butler, Miller & Lents, Ltd., oil consultants. Mr. Woodfin has been a partner in Loeb, Rhoades & Co., a leading investment banking firm in New York City, since 1959. Before go- ing with Loeb, Rhoades & Co., he was a partner in the firm of Vin- son, Elkins, Searls, Connally & Smith in Houston, where he spe- cialized in oil, gas and corporate law. Mr. Woodfin was an officer in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945 and is a native of Paris, Texas, and a graduate of the University of Texas and the University of Texas Law School. Mr. Woodfin is currently a director of Apco Oil Corporation, Susque- hanna Corp. and Jim Walter In- vestments, as well as other Corpo- rations. He is also the president and a director of the University of Texas Foundation at Austin, Texas. Mr. Harbin stated : "I am pleased to have a man of Mr. Woodfin's business experience join the com- pany, and I am looking forward to working with him in continuing the success of Marathon." Bath Iron Awards $1-Million Contract To Mock/Walz & Krenzer Julius Mock & Sons, Inc., in as- sociation with Walz & Krenzer, Inc., has received contracts in ex- cess of $1,000,000 from Bath Iron Works to supply the cargo side- port and doors, watertight doors, hatches, scuttles and sliding doors on the four States Steamship ves- sels. One combination 10-foot by 24- foot sideport-ramp, one 14-foot by 15-foot sideport, one 16-foot by 40- Insley Built (means qualify built-) . . .. ' 1200 HP Twin Screw Towboat 75'x25'xl0' Tugs I Tenders / Towboats Vessel Repair*Conversion N. E. INSLEY, Inc. P.O. Box II Crisfield, Md. (301)968-1145 . marine insurance For over sixty-five years. Adams & Porter has specialized in designing and servicing insurance programs for the marine industry. Put our experience to work for you. Correspondents throughout the world. ESTABLISHED 1907 ADAMS & PORTER INCORPORATED 5 WORLD TRADE CENTER - SUITE 6433 NEW YORK. N Y 10048(212) 432-0001 Trawler, tanker, tug, or tuna boat... CAI offers the most useful and simple-to-operate SSB system afloat. You choose channels by turning a thumbwheel selec- tor, and any one of 40 plug in cards, pre-programmed to a particular frequency and mode, is decoded and fed into a frequency syn- thesizer. No crystals. No re- tuning. No problems. You're instantly on-frequency with 1/2 part per million stability. The CA-35 MS System—de- pendable as it is simple— comes with a 3 year guaran- tee. Send for our Marine Communications Brochure. HSB COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATES, INC. 200 McKay Rd., Huntington Station, N.Y. 11746 Tel: 516-271 -0800 TWX: 510-226-6998 Our CA-35 MS Single Side Band System offers 40 chan- nels of simplex or half- duplex operation at a range of 2.0 to 30.0 MHz —yet op- erates as easily as a ^P telephone. September 1, 1973 23
