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AMHWtrtOU W.P PwMT INGALLS HULL 11° 1168 U.1NAVY WAE-32 KKLLA® WO 4.1969 THEIttJUiiSWMlMCm! UTTON SYSTEKS «£ S SINGLE SCREW CHEMICAL TANKER INGAILSHUU. N9II77 KEEL LAX) AU64I969 I TO NULLS SHMUUKNGDN 1 LITTOHSrSTK^ ! [. J*XMULT MISS. ACT (Ltd.) Introduces ACT (USA)? New Containership Service To Down Under Directors of Associated Container Transportation, Ltd. with model of new ACT-class containership now serving the United Kingdom-Australia trade. Shown left to right are: Alastair Lloyd; Sir Basil Smallpeice, chairman; James Payne and Derek Hollebone. ACT (USA), an offshoot of ACT, Ltd., is slated to start a North America-Australia/ New Zealand container shipping service in early 1971 with similar ships now building in Germany. 30 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Other changes he foresees as a result of a total distribution sys-tem would be in the thinking of importers and exporters. He point-ed out that both importers and exporters will begin to estimate the costs of cargo carriage not only in terms of the freight rates but of the savings that can be made in using a system that attacks costs of handling, packing, insurance, and warehousing. "To me, new methods of trading, on a basis of goods delivered door-to-door, seems inevitable," he said. Mr. Lloyd also suggested that more port authorities will engage in long range planning and "cold bloodedly" tear down outmoded facilities and replace them with new installations. "It will be ex-pensive," Mr. Lloyd admitted, "but it must come to handle the con-tainer revolution." Mr. Lloyd summed up the ACT concept by emphasizing that "dis-tribution, more and more, will re-quire a systems approach." The new container operation is a consortium of three famous Brit-ish steamship companies?Eller-man Lines, Cunard-Port Lines, and Blue Star Line?with a combined shipping experience of more than 4C0 years. This consortium is a division of Associated Container Transportation (Australia) Ltd., incorporated in England. Four 24,000-ton ACT-class ves-sels are being built for U. S. ser-vice. They will cost some $55,500,-C00. Each vessel will carry more than 1,200 containers. They are be-ing built at the Bremer Vulkan shipyard in \\ est Germany. The 715-foot-long ships will be almost fully cellurized with some space for heavy machinery. They will carry 560 refrigerated con-tainers and an additional 640 stand-ard 20-by-8-by-8-foot containers, or 40-foot equivalents. Jeffboat To Repower Twin-Screw Towboat M/G Transport, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, has contracted Jeffboat, Inc., Jeffersonville, Ind., to repower the twin-screw towboat Mark Eastin with two 5,200-total-bhp General Motors diesels. I US NAVY SS.N637 CLASS JSSN680 REDFISH | WOAUS HULL N» 1174 AU64I969 JWBSW ? I THE INGALLS SMPSJUHODw l H UTT0N SYSTEMS, INC. 9 tfftsowotILA mss. A "new concept in containeriza-tion," which is expected to change many of the present attitudes held by underwriters, importers, export-ers and port authorities toward container shipping was presented recently by R. A. Lloyd, director of Associated Container Transport-ation Ltd. of England. Mr. Lloyd spoke at the introduc-tion of a new U. S. containership operation, Associated Container Transportation (USA), or ACT (USA), which will inaugurate ser-vice between North America and Australia/New Zealand in 1971. The far-reaching concept behind the ACT operation, Mr. Lloyd ex-plained. is a "highly disciplined" system of "total distribution." The system, which requires "capital expenditure far beyond the normal commitment of any indivi-dual shipping line, puts the con-tainer operator in control of every stage of container and cargo move-ment. This control should even in-clude terminals, and depots where possible," Mr. Lloyd said. The ACT concept, he added, as-sumes "complete responsibility for total distribution." Containerization "as we conceive it," Mr. Lloyd said, "should bring changes in the present thinking of underwriters. "Despite the fact that our United Kingdom to Australia service is still very much in its infancy, it is already very evident"that the risk of pilferage or other loss has been substantially reduced. "ACT has successfully lifted some 50,000-tons of cargo between England and Australia in the first four months of its operation. Al-though it is still early to be posi-tive on this point, I can tell you that the level of insurance claims so far received is significantly low in relation to both the value and volume of the cargo handled. I believe two of the major reasons for these achievements are the kind of ships and kind of facilities we are operating within the frame-work of our total distribution con-cept. 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