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Plan To Convert Three

Vessels At Estimated

Cost Of $12.8 Million

Bulk Food Carriers, Inc., 425

California Street, San Francisco,

Calif., has applied for Title XI guarantees to aid in financing the conversion of the dry bulk car- riers S/S Tex and S/S Flor, and the oceangoing barge Burke F to carry oil products.

The Tex and Flor were both built in 1948 at Bethlehem Steel

Corporation's Sparrows Point (Md.) shipyard. They will be con- verted to 25,500-dwt liquid pe- troleum carrying tankers, and are intended to be used in the car- riage of oil and other liquid car- goes in the U.S. coastwise and nearby foreign trade under five- year time charters.

The conversion work will be performed by an East Coast ship- yard to be determined. The com- bined estimated cost of conver- sion is $11.3 million for the two vessels.

The fiatdeck oceangoing barge

Burke F was delivered by Sea- train Shipbuilding Corporation in 1976. The nonself-propelled vessel will be converted to a 2,229-gross- ton oil-carrier. It is intended to be used in the carriage of oil and

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The reconstruction work will be performed by a West Coast ship- yard to be determined. Estimated cost of conversion is $1.5 million.

Kleschick Elected

To Sun Ship

Board Of Directors

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Joseph J. Kleschick

Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock

Co., Chester, Pa., has announced that Joseph J. Kleschick was elected to the Sun Ship board of directors. Mr. Kleschick is Sun

Ship's vice president-marketing.

Mr. Kleschick is a 1951 grad- uate of Villanova University with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineer- ing degree.

He served in various field en- gineering and sales engineering posts with General Electric from 1951 to 1972, with his last post being area sales manager for ma- rine and defense industries.

He joined Sun Ship in Septem- ber 1972 as marketing manager in the General Cargo Ship Product

Group. In November 1974, he was named vice president of this Prod- uct Group, with responsibility for implementing Sun Ship's program for all high-speed vessels carrying primarily unitized cargo.

Mr. Kleschick served with the

U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956. He is a member of the Institute of

Electrical and Electronic Engi- neers, The Society of Naval Ar- chitects and Marine Engineers, and the Port of Philadelphia Mar- itime Society.

General Electric

Receives $219,968

Contract From MarAd

The Department of Commerce has awarded a contract in support of the Maritime Administration's

Shipping Operations Information

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