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Circle 234 on Reader Service Card www.maritimereporterinfo.com ANCHORS CHAINS pro-d u c e d onboard is generated three Alfa Laval Multiple Effect Plate (MEP) distillers. Each dis- tiller can produce 630 tons of water per day by evaporation of sea water using waste heat from the ship's diesel engines as heating medium. Circle 17 on Reader Service Card www. maritimereporterinfo. com WDRTELBOER mation on the con- cerns from the owners' perspec- tive. Tel.: +31 (0)10 429 2222 Fax:+31 (0)10 429 6459 gjw@wortelboer.nl www.wortelboer.nl Jeffboat Promotes Price Jeffboat has elected Barker Price as vice presi- ^ dent and manager of Engineering. Price, who previously served as vice president of Manufacturing Services with the company, holds a B.S. degree in Political Science from UCLA. MTC Appoints New VP, Special Projects Steve Collar, a veteran of Crowley Maritime, has joined Marine Transport Corporation as vice president, Special Projects at the company's Weehawken, N.J. headquarters. Collar, who most recently served as director of Special Projects for Crowley's Vessel Man- agement Services subsidiary, will be responsible for helping Marine Transport and its subsidiary companies develop and market Marine Transport's fleet renewal and expansion projects, and will commercially manage selected vessels. He will also have a leadership role in the potential rebuilding of Marine Transport's product tanker fleet and in the expansion of the company's chemical transportation alliances with its partner, Stolt Nielsen Transportation Group. CP Ships Strengthens Management Frank Halliwell, who previously served as executive vice president of CP Ships, was elected as the organiza- tion's new COO. As before, he reports to CEO Ray Miles and serves as Miles' deputy, and will continue as a member of the CP Ships executive committee along with Miles and CFO Ian Webber. CP also appointed John Irving as vice president general counsel and sec- retary. Irving joins CP Ships from Dairyworld Foods in Canada where he was senior vice president and general counsel. Jeremy Lee was elected vice president Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. Lee, who joined CP Ships in 1989, has served in sever- al commercial, marketing and planning roles. Thordon For Princess Newbuilds Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has ordered water lubricated Thordon COMPAC propeller shaft bearing systems for two new cruise ships being built for Princess Cruises at the Nagasaki Shipyard in Japan. The two 110,000-plus ton ships will be larger than the Grand class ships delivered from Italy. In addition, the MHI ships will incorporate a gas turbine along with four diesel engines in a new propulsion arrangement. Circle 7 on Reader Service Card www.maritimereporterinfo.com Alfa-Laval Wins Its Way Onboard World's Largest Liner Alfa-Laval will ensure that Cunard's Queen Mary 2 will be self-sufficient of fresh water — minimizing oily waste for disposal, thus reducing the oil level in the bilge water so that it can be discharged into the ocean. Queen Mary 2, which is scheduled for delivery in 2003, will be built at Chantiers de 1' Atlantique for Cunard Line. The vessel will cost approximately $700 million. The 2,620 passenger vessel will be fitted with Alfa-Laval's fresh water self sufficiency, as well as a total solution for the treatment of fuel and lube, and a system for processing oil wastes on board so that neg- ative environmental impacts are virtually eliminated. QM2's water consumption has been estimated to approximately 1,000 tons/day. The majority of water Honor Gear Pumps Opens U.S. Office Honor Gear Pumps Corp., which is based in Taiwan, has established a presence in the U.S. known as Honor Pumps U.S.A. Located in Houston, Texas, the new facility will house a sales office and stocking ware- house to support local needs with a full inventory of SAE A and SAE AA flange hydraulic pumps. The com- pany's product line features high pressure, aluminum body, bearing block design and gear pumps for a vari- ety of applications, applications that include agricul- tural, mobile equipment and industrial power packs. Circle 38 on Reader Service Card www. maritimereporterinfo. com LR, Cabot LNG, USCG Host LNG Training Lloyd's Register Americas, Inc., Cabot LNG LLC and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) jointly sponsored a two-day training seminar at the USCG's marine safety office in Boston, Mass. The in-depth training sessions covered the important aspects of LNG vessels and their operation, including: properties of LNG; propulsion systems; ship types; gas detection; containment sys- tems; hull design features; and ships in service. USCG personnel from the ports of Boston, Savan- nah, Baltimore and Hampton Roads attended the train- ing course conducted by John Finch, Lloyd's Register principal surveyor and LNG specialist from Nagasaki, Japan. Joseph McKechnie, shipping manager at Cabot LNG LLC provided important experience-based infor- Brad J. Wilkus & Assoc. Introduces Crew Vision 2001 Brad J. Wilkus & Associates, has launched Crew Vision 2001, an Internet or Intranet web- based personnel logistics database tool for use by Fleet Personnel Departments in the marine industry. The tool, which can be used for commercial shipping lines and passenger cruises around the globe, brings about an opportunity for the world's leading ocean car- riers and passenger cruise lines to manage crewmem- bers without added paper solutions. Circle 18 on Reader Service Card www.maritimereporterinfo.com ADSB Signs Agreement With Halmatic Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB) has formed a strategic agreement with Halmatic Ltd., U.K. Accord- ing to ADSB's managing director, Lawrence Holliday, the agreement calls for ADSB and Halmatic to work together in the marketing and building of Halmatic- designed vessels for customers throughout the entire Gulf region. 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