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Mobil Oil Appoints

Andreas Panopoulos

Andreas T. Panopoulos

Andreas T. Panopoulos has been named manager of Hellenic sales and special products in1 Mobil Oil

Corporation's marine sales depart- ment.

Mr. Panopoulos was born in

Greece. He is a graduate of the

Royal Air Force Academy and served 11 years as a flying officer in the Royal Greek Air Force. He came to the United States in 1962 and, prior to joining Mobil in No- vember 1967, was assistant Hellenic sales manager, North America for

Olympic Airways.

Most recently, he has been Hel- lenic sales manager for the marine sales department of Mobil Sales and Supply Corporation.

Porter Paint Names

C. Edwin Wilkins

Porter Paint Co., with general offices in Louisville, Ky., has an- nounced the appointment of C. Ed- win Wilkins as general sales man- ager of the Porter Coatings Divi- sion.

Mr. Wilkins, a native of North

Carolina, was formerly national sales manager of the Coatings Di- vision of Mobil Chemical. He will direct the nationwide sales opera- tion of Porter Coatings, which re- cently purchased the Marine and

Industrial Coatings business of

LTSS Chemicals.

Columbus Line Orders 336 Refrigeration Units

From Carrier-Transicold

An order for 336 container re- frigeration units has been placed with Carrier-Transicold Company,

Syracuse, N.Y., by Columbus Line of New York, a subsidiary of Ham- burg-Sudamerikanishe, a West

German shipping company.

The self-contained units will be of the removable "clip on" type, so that they may be attached to the forward wall of 20-foot in- sulated containers when the latter are traveling by rail or over the road, according to William C.

Egan, president of Carrier-Transi- cold.

Each Carrier-Transicold unit will consist of an open compressor directly driven by an air-cooled diesel engine, an air-cooled con- denser, fan-coil evaporator and controls. When required, heat will be supplied by hot gas from the compressor, Mr. Egan said.

The clip-on refrigeration units never go to sea. They are de- mounted at dock side when con- tainers are loaded aboard ship. At that time, the containers are con- nected to the ship's central cool- ing plant to maintain uninterrupted refrigeration service.

Columbus Line containers will be used to transport frozen meat, sea food, fruit and dairy products from Australia and New Zealand to the East Coast of the United

States and Canada, and chilled or frozen shipments or dry cargo back "down under."

Nat'l Marine Applies

For Title XI Insurance

On Eight Vessels

Application has been made to the Maritime Administration by

National Marine Services, Inc., St.

Louis, Mo., for Title XI mortgage insurance. This is in relation to the construction of eight vessels, four barges and four towboats, costing approximately $3.4 million.

The towboats are priced at $1.3 million and the barges at $2.1 mil- lion.

Two towboats will be 210 gross tons and the other two will be 240 gross tons. The double-skinned barges, which will carry petroleum or chemical products along the

Gulf Intercoastal Waterway and on the Mississippi River, will be unmanned and non-self-propelled.

Two of these vessels will be 1,300 deadweight tons and two will be 3,000 deadweight tons.

Why would all the companies on the right-hand page use 9% nickel steel for their above-ground LNG storage tanks?

A few of the reasons:

Developed specifically for cryogenic service, 9% nickel steel retains excellent toughness and ductility down to —320 F.

Provides a design stress of 28,500 psi under API Code 620,

Appendix Q.

Has a low coefficient of expansion.

Is readily welded in the field.

Requires no postweld stress relief.

And is a perfect alloy for large- capacity LNG storage tanks. Note the 600,000 barrel tank Distrigas

Corporation now has under construction. It's the largest of its type to date.

For all the reasons, send for our literature on 9% nickel steel and the LNG industry. Write: The

International Nickel Company, Inc.,

Dept. MR671, One New York Plaza,

New York, N.Y. 10004. In Canada,

The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited, P.O. Box 44,

Toronto-Dominion Centre,Toronto 111, Ontario.

INTERNATIONAL NICKEL 16 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News