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Norwegian Order For

Cargo Carrier To IHI

IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima

Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.) re- cently received an order for a 22,000-dwt Fortune-type multi- purpose dry cargo carrier from

Paal Wilson & Co., A/S, Hop (Bergen), Norway, through in- termediation of Arvid Bergvall

Shipbroking A/S & Co., Oslo,

Norway.

The contract was signed by

Daniel Lunde Jr., director of

Paal Wilson & Co., A/S, and Taiji

Ubukata, president of IHI, at

IHI's head office in Tokyo.

The vessel will be built by

IHI's Tokyo Shipbuilding & Crane

Works, and is scheduled for de- livery at the end of February 1981. To date, IHI has completed and delivered 58 Fortune-type vessels to its customers since the introduction of the Fortune-class vessel in June 1971. The vessel ordered by Paal Wilson & Co. will be the first Fortune flying the

Norwegian flag.

Principal particulars of the

Fortune are: classification, Det

Norske Veritas; gross tonnage, about 14,000; deadweight, about 22,000 tons; length between per- pendiculars, 155.448 meters (about 510 feet) ; breadth, 22.860 meters (75 Feet) ; depth, 13.560 meters (44 feet) ; draft, 9.848 meters (32 feet) ; main engine, IHI-S.E.M.T.

Pielstick 16 PC2V-type diesel en- gine developing a maximum out- put of 8,000 bhp; and speed, 15 knots.

Kerr Steamship Names

Holmes Assistant VP

Carl L. Holmes has been ap- pointed assistant vice president by Kerr Steamship Company, Inc.

Born in San Francisco, Calif.,

Mr. Holmes joined Kerr in 1974, after extensive marketing man- agement experience with McCor- mick & Co., Inc. Most recently, he has served as general sales manager, domiciled in Kerr's San

Francisco office.

Acadian Will Build Up

To Four Clipper-Class

Container Feeder Ships

The Acadian Marine group of companies based in New Orleans,

La., has announced the signing of contracts valued at $18 million and its construction plans for sev- eral 350-foot "Clipper-Class" feed- er containerships.

The Acadian Group recently inked contracts for the charter of 10 of its ships. The charters are long-term contracts for its ships in different parts of the world, including Mexico, Nigeria,

Bermuda, and the Caribbean area.

The charters are with major oil companies, governments, and na- tional oil companies for offshore oil service, seismograph, and con- tainer service.

Prieur J. Leary Jr., president, stated that the year-end record backlog for the group is the re- sult of the worldwide demand for energy and the recognition of the need for small and medium-sized container vessels. Mr. Leary stated that at the present time, the value of The Acadian Group's fleet, including four 230-foot Ma- riner-Class, SCR Diesel Electric vessels under construction, has swelled to 42 million dollars.

Acadian owns and operates ships in the offshore oil industry, the container trade, and the seis- mograph and research trades off the coast of 20 different coun- tries. In addition, it has a con- tainer division which utilizes con- tainers, trucks, and cranes, to load and unload its vessels.

Mr. Leary also announced the group's plans to build up to four

Clipper-Class feeder container vessels; proposals are presently in the hands of U.S. shipyards. The 350-foot, high-speed coastal trad- ers will offer major shipping com- panies the use of smaller vessels to economically feed the larger trans-Atlantic containerships, the same way smaller airplanes feed jumbo aircraft. The Clipper-Class vessels will measure 350 feet by 62 feet by 26 feet and will make 18 knots. These vessels will be able to carry 200 forty-foot con- tainers and will also have roll-on/ roll-off capability. They will be

U.S.-flag, built in U.S. shipyards and will trade in and around the

North Sea, the East Coast of the

United States, and the U.S. Gulf

Coast.

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