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House Approves TAPS —41 Tankers Needed

A bill to license the construction of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline Sys- tem (TAPS) and to shield the project from further challenges by environmentalists was passed by the House of Representatives on

August 2.

After eight hours of debate, the controversial bill, similar to one passed by the Senate, cleared the

House by a vote of 356 to 60.

The $3.5 billion, 789-mile pipeline is expected to carry two million barrels of crude oil daily from

Alaska's North Slope oilfields to the ice-free port of Valdez, on

Alaska's southern shore, for tanker shipment to West Coast ports.

In late 1971, the Bureau of Do- mestic Commerce, Department of

Commerce, estimated that the total number of ships by size for Val- dez/West Coast services would be as follows: eight 250,000-dwt tankers; sixteen 120,000-dwt tank- ers ; one 90,000-dwt tanker; two 80,000-dwt tankers; four 75,000- dwt tankers; six 70,000-dwt tank- ers ; two 60,000-dwt tankers, and two 45,000-dwt tankers, adding up to a total of 41.

The Commerce Department Re- port on "Economic Effects of

Opening the Oil Reserves of

Alaska Through the Trans-Alaska

Pipeline System," further indicated that eight of the above 41 tankers will come from the existing fleet "and the remaining 33 will be built in U.S. shipyards."

Lloyd's Register

Reports Record High

For Ships On Order

Apart from the People's Republic of China, Rumania and Russia for which information is not available, at the end of June there were un- der construction in the world 2,102 merchant ships totaling 26,550,507 gross tons, according to Lloyd's

Register of Shipping. This is 13,- 865,759 tons more than last quarter, and is the highest figure ever re- corded.

When the ships which are on order but have not been com- menced are included, the world order book surpassed 100-million gross tons, and the mammoth fig- ure of 105,316,423 tons is 6,133,597 tons more than the last quarter.

As forecast, last quarter's rate of contracting has not been main- tained. Nevertheless, tonnage or- dered during the first six months of 1973 is already higher for any entire year, with the exception of

Japan, Britain and Spain show substantial increases to their order books, while most of the other major shipbuilding countries have more modest increases. Japan's share of the order book now stands at almost 44 percent.

The United 'States total order book is 3,202,930 gross tons, an increase of 98,473 tons over the

March quarter.

Of the ships under construction throughout the world at the end of June, 8,417,200 gross tons were being built under the supervision of (Surveyors to Lloyd's Register.

American Bureau Signs

Agreements With USSR

Register Of Shipping

The American Bureau of Ship- ping and the USSR Register of

Shipping have concluded agree- ments for reciprocal representation for survey of existing vessels and for survey during construction or conversion of vessels in ocean serv- ice classed with either society. Rep- resentatives of ABS and the USSR society signed the agreements in

Leningrad on May 24, 1973.

An agreement for reciprocal rep- resentation for survey of ship steel plates and shapes has been in effect between ABS and the USSR so- ciety since February 1972.

T.J. Stevenson & Co.

Appoints Lance Miller

T.J. Stevenson & Co., Inc., New

York-based steamship agents, an- nounced it has appointed Lance A.

Miller as its Gulf manager. Mr.

Miller, who will be based at the

World Trade Center in Houston,

Texas, formerly served at Seoul,

Korea, as special representative providing liaison between the Ste- venson organization and its prin- cipals, Korea Shipping Corp.

World-Wide Marine

Appoints Paul Lee

Executive Vice Pres.

Y.K. Pao, governing director of

World-Wide, (Shipping) Ltd. of

Hong Kong, and president of

World-Wide Marine, Inc., New

York, has announced the appoint- ment of Paul Lee, formerly vice president, to the position of execu- tive vice president of World-Wide

Marine.

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Mr. Lee is a director of World-

Wide, (Shipping) Ltd. and served in Hong Kong for seven years, pri- marily in charge of their finance division, before coming to New

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