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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