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Mitsui-Built Morgenster Joins South African Marine's Fleet The S.A. Morgenster will be operated by South African Marine between New York and Capetown. Mitsui Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd., recently delivered at its Fujinagata Works the 12.000-dwt high-speed cargoliner S.A. Morgen-ster, the second of three sisterships, to her owners, South African Marine Corporation. The first, S.A. Constantia, was delivered at the same yard in July, 1968, and the last, S.A. Vergelegen, will be completed also at the same yard this month. These liners are designed to engage in the New York/Capetown route, with calls at Japan scheduled for the future. Besides general cargo and refrigerated or frozen cargo, the ship can carry various kinds of oils as well as a total of 214 containers of the 20-foot type. Cargo-handling gear consists of 18 sets of 5-ton booms and two sets of 30-ton heavy-lift booms. MacGregor hatch covers are provided for all holds, with the underdeck cov-ers flush to provide for the use of fork-lift trucks. The 551-foot vessel is powered by a Uraga-Sulzer 6RD90 diesel engine with a normal rat-ing of 12,750 bhp at 116 rpm. A trial speed of 23 knots was reported by the yard. These ships are classified by the American Bureau of Shipping. APL Promotes G. O. Perry To Executive Director-Asia American President Lines of San Francisco has promoted George O. Perry to the post of executive director-Asia, it was announced by Peter T. Albert, APL vice-president-market-ing. Headquartered in Tokyo, Mr. Perry will be responsible for all APL operations in all of Asia and will supervise the company's seven branch offices and agency representatives there. Mr. Perry, who joined APL in 1954, has been managing director for Japan. He has served in the company's offices in Singapore, Indonesia and Tokyo, and has been an own-er's representative for Ceylon, India and Paki-stan. Most of Mr. Perry's business career prior to joining APL has been overseas in the Asia area with India Caltex, American Independent Oil Company and other oil producers operating in the Persian Gulf. Grace Line Announces New Management Assignments For Pacific Coast Division Arthur C. Novacek, president of Grace Line, has announced new senior management as-signments for the Line's Pacific Coast Divi-sion, necessitated by the recent death of Ernest R. Senn, executive vice-president and director of Grace Line and general manager of the Paci-fic Division. Albert B. Wenzell, vice-president of Grace Line, will now be responsible for all aspects of its services between United States and Canadi-an Pacific Coast ports and Latin America. William A. St. Amant, vice-president of Grace Line, and longtime general manager of the Division's Johnson Line Agency, will now have autonomy in regard to conduct and op-erations of the agency. Its staff is being meas-urably increased, particularly in the sales area, in order to handle the increased activities of the Johnson Line which recently introduced the first all-container service between United States and Canadian Pacific Coast ports and Europe/Scandinavia. Grace Line has been agent for this pioneering Swedish steamship company for 55 years. Mr. Wenzell's 30-years with Grace Line have encompassed a wide variety of assignments, from the purser's staff of a Santa vessel to managerial duties in the course of 17-years in Latin America, including manager, Steamer Department, Grace y Cia., Chile. He was elect-ed a vice-president in 1957 and was in charge of the Line's West Coast of South America Service from New York. Mr. Wenzell also held the position of director of trade develop-ment and Latin American affairs, before being transferred to San Francisco in 1967. Mr. St. Amant is also a veteran of long Grace Line service, having joined the Line in 1927. After early service at sea, and in San Francisco and Los Angeles during the 1930's, he came to New York as assistant freight traffic man-ager in 1949 and was made traffic manager in 1950. In 1957, he was elected a vice-president and named general manager of the Johnson Line Agency, a relationship that on an ex-panded basis he is now continuing. Bethlehem-San Francisco To Build Carfloats For United United Towing Co., San Francisco, has or-dered two railroad carfloats to be built at the San Francisco yard of Bethlehem Steel Cor-poration at a price reported to be $l-million each. They have been designated Hull Nos. 4107 and 4108 and are to be of the following dimensions: 384 feet by 76 feet by 20 feet and be of 5,100 gt. 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