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Unitor To Conduct

Unique Refrigeration

Training On Gas Tanker

Unitor A.S., of Kolbotn, Norway, has entered into an agreement with the Hanseatic Marine Training

School in Cyprus to train Unitor marine refrigeration service techni- cians onboard Hanseatic's combined

Unitor training ship/gas carrier Annabella. training ship/gas carrier Annabella.

The company also operates its own training centers in Oslo and Manila.

The first training party to em- bark upon the 26,800-grt LNG/LPG carrier Annabella joined the ship in mid-February in Barcelona, sailing to North Africa and back to the Span- ish port. This party consisted of

Unitor's product manager, refrig- eration services, Jan Fr. Holseter and service technicians from

Unitor's companies in Singapore,

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Holland, Greece and the U.S.

Annabella, built in 1974, was con- verted into a combined training ves- sel/gas carrier last year and is oper- ated jointly by Hanseatic and

Chemikalien Seetransport GmbH of

Hamburg. Chemikalien Seetrans- port owns and operates the vessel, while Hanseatic Marine Training

School controls and supervises the onboard training facility.

This unique Unitor training ven- ture is being undertaken to further enhance the abilities of the company's service technicians.

For additional information regarding Unitor AS. and its training facilities,

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Great Lake Carriers

Could Gain From World

Trade Agreements

Successful multilateral trade ne- gotiations could have a positive effect on U.S. and Canadian Great Lakes shipping operations, a two-day joint conference of the Cleveland-based

Lake Carriers and the Canadian Ship- owners Association was informed by

Donald Belch, director of govern- ment relations for Canadian steel manufacturer Stelco Inc.

Mr. Belch was referring to the negotiations currently underway on a new multilateral steel agreement, for the Uruguay Round of the Gen- eral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and for a North American free-trade accord.

This could have a significant long term effect on the U.S. and Canadian steel markets, when Mexican consum- ers are brought to the level of U.S. and

Canadian consumers, he said.

The tonnage of U.S. steel shipped to automobile manufacturers has been the smallest in over two de- cades, he continued, with overall

U.S. steel shipments falling 7.2% to 79 million tons in 1991.

While not matching the 1990 level of 85 million tons, Milton Deaner, president of the American Iron and

Steel Institute, predicted that 1992 shipments of U.S. steel mill prod- ucts would be higher than the previ- ous year.

U.S. vessels on the Great Lakes carried the lowest volume of cargo since 1986, 104 million net tons.

The Strike Club

Insurance Association

Reorganizes

The company responsible for man- agingThe Strike Club (The Shipowner's

Mutual Strike Insurance Association

Ltd.), of Bermuda, has been renamed

Strike Club Management Limited.

This follows the recent announce- ment that the company was being re- structured and strengthened through a management buy-out that was conse- quent upon the retirement of the club's founder, John Laing.

The Strike Club is the largest insur- er of its kind in the world, with entered tonnage in excess of 40 million gross. 105

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