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Loftus Succeeds Graham As Vice President-Sales For Moran Towing Thomas E. Moran, chairman and president of Moran Towing and Transportation Company of New York City, has announced the retirement of Lloyd R. Graham as vice president of mar- keting and sales, and the election of Robert M. Loftus to that position. Lloyd R. Graham Mr. Loftus, a 1953 graduate of the State Uni- versity of New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler, joined Moran after service in the mer- chant marine and the Navy, where he held the rank of lieutenant commander. He started with the company in the sales department, was named sales manager for New York Harbor in 1964 and sales manager in 1977. He also held the position of vice president-construction and re- pair, and most recently was president of the joint venture Moran-Crowley Environmental Services Company. Mr. Graham has been with Moran for 19 years, and is well known in the New York mari- time community. During his 27 years in the industry he has served as a director of the Mari- time Association of the Port of New York, a gov- ernor of the Port of New York Propeller Club, treasurer of the Downtown Athletic Club, and a director of the Friends of the Seamen's Church Institute and Security Bureau Inc. Coburn Appointed Area Manager For Sea-Land— Martin Named Port Manager Sea-Land Service, Inc., has announced the promotion of Tom Coburn to area manager, and the naming of Jay Dee Martin as port manager in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Coburn will oversee sales and marketing in Alaska's Railbelt, and will supervise Sea- Land's Railbelt area operations. For the past two years he has served as port manager. A 13- year Sea-Land veteran, Mr. Coburn has worked in sales, marketing, and operations in Anchorage, Seattle, Dallas, and Oakland. He will report directly to Doug Tipton, general manager-Alaska. Mr. Martin will supervise Sea-Land's land and vessel operations, maintenance, and office administration at the company's Anchorage Terminal. Prior to joining Sea-Land, he served as regional sales director for a major nationwide trucking company. He brings with him more than 10 years of sales and operational manage- ment experience. Gulf Coast Trailing Dredge Under Construction At Twin City Shipyard Construction of a 4,000-cubic-yard hopper dredge is progressing on schedule at Twin City Shipyard (TCS) in St. Paul, Minn. The 8,000- bhp vessel for Gulf Coast Trailing Company of New Orleans is being designed and constructed by TCS using the latest modular and zone con- struction methods. TCS is using state-of-the-art, computer-aided drafting and steel fabrication programs. Mod- ules weighing up to 125 tons are fabricated and assembled in the yard's large erection hall, moved out by hydraulic walkers, and lifted into place using a heavy-lift Ring Horse crane (pho- to). Twin City has become one of the leading U.S. yards in the design and construction of hopper dredges and dump scows, in addition to its stan- dard line of hopper barges, deck barges, and Portabarges™. Laviola And Adelman Named Corporate Vice Presidents At M. Rosenblatt & Son Firm Carmine Laviola Edward Adelman Lester Rosenblatt, chairman of M. Rosen- blatt & Son, Inc., naval architects and marine engineers with headquarters in New York City, has announced the recent promotions of two long-time key employees to vice presidential positions. Carmine Laviola, formerly assistant design manager for the Eastern Division, is now a cor- porate vice president and has been promoted to design manager in charge of detail design activi- ties in the company's six Eastern and Gulf Coast offices. He has been employed by MR&S for 33 years, is a licensed professional engineer, and holds a bachelor of civil engineering degree and a master's degree in business administration from the City College of New York. Prior to serving as assistant design manager for the past 12 years, Mr. Laviola headed the Hull Scientific Section, and had successively more senior assignments in the hull structural and hull arrangements departments. Edward Adelman, formerly assistant vice president, has been named a corporate vice pres- ident and promoted to the position of assistant manager of the firm's six Western Division offices. He has been with Rosenblatt for 32 years, the last 16 of which have been on the West Coast as assistant manager of the San Francisco office. In addition, he has held various other engineering and management positions includ- ing assistant to the president. He is a graduate of the City College of New York, where he stud- ied engineering and business administration. 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