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MAN-B&W Diesel Holds Symposium For West Coast Marine Industry Leaders A diesel engine symposium con- ducted recently in San Francisco by MAN-B&W Diesel was very well attended by a wide cross section of important West Coast shipowners, operators, and naval architects. A brief introduction by the president of American MAN Corp., K. Peter Koch, was fol- lowed by a presentation by the president of B&W Diesel, Inc., Claus Windelev, describing the combined MAN-B&W Diesel U.S. sales and service organization. The balance of the symposium Bruce D. Smith Elected President Of COMSAT Technology Products Comsat of Washington, D.C., announced that Bruce D. Smith has been elected president of Comsat Technology Products, Inc. In this newly created position, Mr. Smith is responsible for the management of the corporation's telecommunications equipment manufacturing and marketing ac- tivities. His election furthers the implementation of a corporate reorganization announced in Sep- tember of last year. Comsat Technology Products, including two wholly owned sub- sidiaries, Amplica and TeleSys- tems and several internal tech- nology ventures, produces and markets digital and microwave telecommunications equipment. Amplica, based in Newbury Park, Calif., manufactures a wide range of standard, low-noise, medium- power and general purpose micro- wave equipment for defense and commercial markets. TeleSys- tems, located in Fairfax, Va., pri- marily manufactures digital elec- tronics products, including echo cancelers and time-division mul- tiple-access equipment, as well as maritime communications satel- lite shipboard terminals. Commenting on Mr. Smith's election, Irving Goldstein, execu- tive vice president of Comsat, noted: "Bruce Smith brings to this position both extensive en- was devoted to the latest tech- nology and the economic consid- erations associated with low- speed as well as medium-speed diesel engines. MAN-B&W Diesel has one of the largest combined diesel engine programs in the world. MAN-B&W reported that the strong interest in the subject shown by those attending the symposium is further evidence of the increasing importance of diesel engine technology among U.S. marine industry decision makers. trepreneurial and management experience. His talents and vi- sion will enhance the develop- ment of our equipment manufac- turing activities that are now growing into a major area of the corporation's businesses." Mr. Smith most recently served as Comsat's vice president, cor- porate development, in which he was responsible for the develop- ment and implementation of the corporation's strategic business plans. From 1980 to 1981 he was vice president for planning and new ventures of Comsat General Corporation, in which position he was primarily responsible for Comsat's 1982 acquisition of Amplica. Before joining Comsat General, Mr. Smith was chief executive of- ficer of several advanced tech- nology manufacturing companies, and a partner of Crisman, Fos- sum, and Smith, a San Francisco- based management consulting firm. $50-Million Oceanographic Systems Contract Awarded To Western Electric Western Electric Company, Greensboro, N.C., has been award- ed a $50,117,903 cost-plus-fixed- fee contract for oceanographic systems. The Naval Electronic Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00039-83-C-0100). Contromatics Appoints MacAfee Vice President Of Engineering The appointment of Jerry D. MacAfee as vice president, en- gineering of Contromatics Divi- sion, Litton Industrial Products, Inc., East Hartford, Conn., was announced recently by company president John P. Kempton. In this new management posi- tion, Mr. MacAfee assumes over- all responsibility for product en- gineering, research, development, and quality assurance. Beginning his career with Gen- eral Electric, Turbine Mechan- ical Design, for the last 15 years he has been with Jamesbury as senior engineer, actuators, and projects, and since 1974, chief engineer, butterfly valves. Contromatics is a major manu- facturer of high performance butterfly valves, ball valves, and pneumatic actuators for the chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, power, and marine indus- tries. SKF Couplings Establishes U.S. Sales Office —Literature Available Sales of SKF Steel's OK Shaft Couplings will be handled in the U.S. from the Coupling Division's newly established U.S. Sales Of- fice in Avon, Conn. The announce- ment was made by the manager of the division in Hofors, Sweden. The SKF OK Coupling pro- vides a simple, safe, fast and efficient method of connecting shafting without the need for nuts, bolts, flanges or keyways, and is manufactured in sizes ranging from 25 millimeters to 1,000 millimeters. A demonstration of mounting and dismounting an OK Coupling will be offered to visitors to the Work Boat Show '83 in the Super- dome, New Orleans, February 3, 4, 5 and 6 at the SKF Coupling Division's Stand No. 1071/1072. For further information and a copy of the OK Coupling brochure, Write 45 on Reader Service Card MacGregor To Equip 30 Barges, 3 Ships Building In Japan For Paraguay MacGregor Far East (MGFE), the Tokyo-based member of the MacGregor International organi- zation, has received orders to supply cargo access equipment for 33 vessels to be built for Paraguay. Thirty are dry cargo barges to be delivered by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding in knocked down form for assembly in Paraguay. The remaining three are general cargo ships to be built in Japan by subsidiary/ affiliate companies of IHI and Mitsui. Land-locked Paraguay is de- pendent on barge traffic for its commerce. Access to the sea is near Buenos Aires, Argentina, via the Parana and Uruguay Riv- ers on which the new barges will carry grain, soya bean, cement, and other bulk cargoes. All the vessels — barges and cargo ships -— are part of a pack- age negotiated by Japanese trad- ing houses for Paraguay's state- owned Flotta Mercante del Es- tado of Asuncion. Deliveries of the barge components will start soon, while delivery of the cargo ships is due in 1983. The barges are of two capac- ities — twenty 360 dwt, and ten 800 dwt. Both are of similar de- sign. The hatch covers to be sup- plied by MGFE for each design are, apart from size, identical. They are of the telescopic type each one comprising two, three- element sets, the cross joint of each set meeting at the center of the division between the two holds. The coaming extends beyond the fore and aft ends of each hatch, a feature which in stow- age, enables the sets to be tele- scoped clear of the end coamings, providing a 100 percent clear opening of each hatch. One 6,000-dwt general cargo ship, to be built at Ishikawajima Ship & Chemical Plant, is geared 'tweendecker with three holds sized to carry containers both within and on top of the hatches. MGFE will supply double- skinned single pull covers for the weatherdeck hatches and lift off flush-with-deck pontoon covers for the 'tweendecks. Actuation of the weatherdeck covers is by chain drive from a hydraulic mo- tor. The pontoon covers will be handled by the ship's 15- and 25- ton derricks. Two smaller general cargo ships are to be built at the Mitsui affiliate Kanrei Shipbuilding of Tokushima. They are geared, single-decked, two-hold vessels of 1,500 dwt. MGFE will supply wire operated single-pull hatch covers. $948-Million Navy Order To British Shipbuilders For Falkland Replacements British Shipbuilders Corp. re- cently received orders worth $948- million for vessels to replace those lost in the Falklands. The government announced that there will be orders for five new Type 22 super frigates to replace the four frigates lost in the campaign and replacement of the logistics landing ship Sir Galahad. Ship repair yards also will equip some existing warships with added defense systems. The government said also that defense features will be incorpo- rated in the ship built to replace the 15,000-ton Cunard container- ship Atlantic Conveyor. 22 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
