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Ingalls And Kockums Sign Technical Exchange Agreement A technical exchange agreement has been signed by Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Lit-ton Industries and Kockums Mekaniska Ver-stads, AB, a Swedish shipyard. The latest experience and information on technological developments taking place at both yards will be made available to each other by the accord, advised Lars-Erik Thunholm, chairman of Kockums, and Ellis B. Gardner, senior vice-president of Litton and president of Ingalls. Kockums, located at Malmo, Sweden, has entered into this unprecedented arrangement between shipbuilding firms of two countries in order to participate in technological ad-vances to be incorporated into Ingall's new shipyard under construction in Pascagoula, Miss., Mr. Thunholm said. The new Litton shipyard, scheduled to be in production by 1970, is the first of its kind in the United States. The $130-million plant will turn out ships on an assembly-line basis. Kockums is one of the most modern and competitive shipyards in the world, Mr. Gard-ner said. He credited earlier exchanges with the Swedish shipyard management and per-sonnel for many of the new ideas and concepts that are being incorporated into Litton's new shipyard. "The agreement will make available ex-changes of personnel for training and on-site inspections as well as the interchange of tech-nical information," Mr. Gardner said. "Under this program, each will be a labora-tory for the other?Ingalls in the systems, techniques and equipment resulting from its intensive application of capital to shipbuilding, and Kockums in the utilization and develop-ment of the latest machinery and equipment for building ships," Mr. Gardner said. All exchanges of information will be subject to security restrictions imposed by the govern-ments of the United States and Sweden and to non-disclosure stipulations in contracts with third parties. Kockums has completed more than 500 ves-sels totaling more than 5-million tons. A pio-neer in welded construction techniques, the firm has evolved 20 standard designs covering various ship sizes and types, as well as highly specialized vessels. Among the highly special-ized ships produced by Kockums are fast re-frigerated vessels and the MS Paul Endacott, designed to carry 852,000 cubic feet of liquid petroleum gas at condensation temperature (-51 °C.) and atmospheric pressure. Kockums is also a leading builder of diesel marine en-gines. Kockums is currently building two vessels for carrying liquefied natural gas for Phillips-Marathon for service between Alaska and Japan. Ingalls recently has obtained the exclu-sive license for the United States from Worms Engineering of Paris for the same system of LNG carriage. Ingalls, a producer of a wide variety of merchant and military ships, recently intro-duced utilization of lightweight, high-tensile steels throughout the hull and superstructure of merchant ships and is currently developing the design of a Litton standard line of tankers, bulk carriers and containerships. Designs of several sizes of tankers are already available and the first series is now under production. Ingalls is also the only private shipbuilder in the United States to have delivered every type of amphibious assault ship to the U.S. Navy. Lakes And Rivers Section Schedules Winter Meeting For January 23 In Cleveland The winter meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday, January 23, 1969. Headquarters for the meeting will be the Cleveland Sheraton Hotel. The meeting will begin with registration in the morning followed by a technical session at which the following papers will be presented: "Lad?A New Family of Devices for the Avoidance of Collisions at Sea" by Robert F. Riggs, research engineer, Sperry Marine Sys-tems Division, Sperry Rand Corporation and John L. Horton, assistant marine manager, Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company. "Measures of Merit for Ship Design" by Harry Benford, chairman, Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, The University of Michigan. "Three Dimensional Enlargement of Great Lakes Bulk Carriers" by Trevor White, direc-tor of engineering, Fraser Shipyards, Inc. "Recreation Boating?Survey" by David Beach, manager of yacht engineering, Boating Industry Association. "Trends in Yachting Brought About by New Manufacturing Materials and Techniques" by Martin C. Kelsey Jr., president, Palmer John-son Boats, Inc. Lunch will be served after paper No. 3. 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