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Prussing Appointed General Sales Manager For Detroit Diesel MINI BULK CARRIERS will soon start operation in Far Eastern waters. Ten of these 215-foot, twin-screw motorships are being constructed in Japan for Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises Ltd. of Piraeus, Greece, according to George P. Livanos, president of Seres Shipping Inc., the New York representative for Ceres. These ships will ren-dezvous with a large bulk carrier and take on or discharge 3,100 tons of cargo. The smaller ship will be capable of picking up or delivering dry bulk cargoes from inland areas of underdeveloped countries. Ceres has an option to build ten more ships of this type and can see the need for 100 such ships. The first ship will be delivered this month. Zapata Announces Two Key Appointments Zapata Norness, Inc., has an-nounced the election of Hugh Rob-ertson to the position of financial vice-president and treasurer, and Peter C. Knudtzon to assistant vice - president - corporate develop-ment. Mr. Robertson joined Zapata in March, 1967, as controller and was elected treasurer in August, 1968. He was graduated from Rice Uni-versity in 1961 and is a member of the University of Texas Account-ing Advisory Council, American Institute of Certified Public Ac-countants and state and local CPA societies. Prior to joining Zapata, he was associated with Price Waterhouse & Co. in Houston, Texas. Mr. Knudtzon joined Zapata in June, 1967 as assistant controller and was elected controller in Au-gust, 1968. Prior to joining Zapata, he was in public accounting in England, Switzerland and the Ba-hamas. Zapata Norness, a Houston-based diversified offshore drilling, ship-ping and marine services firm, is listed on the New York Stock Ex-change. NKK's Tsu Super-Efficient Shipyard To Start Building Tankers In July A remarkable 22 months from site reclamation to laying of the first keel will be recorded by Nip-pon Kokan, Japan's only integrated shipbuilder-steelmaker, in construc-tion of its super efficient $42-mil-lion Tsu Yard in central Japan. In October 1966 the huge re-claimed area of 148 acres was part of the sea. Hiroo Ikematsu, NKK-New York's naval architect, said the keel for Tsu's first vessel, a 104,700-dwt ore/oil carrier ordered by Vale do Rio Doce Navegacao S.A. of Brasil, will be laid in July 1969. Contracts have already been signed with NKK for four more vessels to be built at Tsu?two 250,000-dwt tankers for Canadian Raymond F. Prussing The appointment of Raymond F. Prussing as general sales manager of Detroit Diesel Engine Division of General Motors Corporation was announced recently by C. W. Trux-ell, general manager of the division. Mr. Prussing, who has been assist-ant general sales manager since 1963, succeeds Lauren H. Wells, who retired because of personal reasons. In his new capacity, Mr. Pruss-ing will be responsible for engine and parts sales to original equip-ment manufacturers, distributors, government and overseas markets. Mr. Prussing, educated in New York, started his business career with a GMC truck distributor. During World War II, he served with the 8th U.S. Air Force in Eng-land. following which he joined the Foreign Distributors Division of General Motors Overseas Opera-tion, where he gained experience in the sale of many of the corpora-tion's non-vehicle products which included Detroit Diesels, Allison, Electro-Motive and Delco. As exec-utive assistant with Foreign Dis-tributors Division he was in charge of sales of these products as well as Frigidaire sales and service. Steamship Management Names Evju Manager Steamship Management Corp., New York-based ship charterers, has appointed Tore Evju as opera-tions manager, according to an an-nouncement by Capt. N. G. Kara-daras, executive vice-president of the firm. Mr. Evju was previously associated with Peraco Chartering and Cypher Shipping. Matson Reassigns E.L. Maynard Edward L. Maynard, previously regional sales manager for the Far East service of Matson Navigation Co., has been named eastern re-gional sales manager of its new Freight Marketing and Sales Divi-sion, according to an announce-ment by George F. Collins, director of sales. Three More Specialized Tankers Ordered By Stolt Tankers?For A Total Of Seven Artist's conception of Stolt-Nielsen tankers designed for special liquid bulk cargoes. Tsu shipyard takes shape in Japan. Will be able to build ships up to 500,000-dwt. Pacific (Bermuda) and two 256,000-dwt tankers for Anders Jahre A/S of Norway. The yard will feature two huge docks. Now under construction, they will have a capacity of 500,000 dwt each?one for building, the other for repair. Tsu also features a T-type lay-out for minimizing materials trans-portation and docks with both ends open to the sea for facilitating semi-tandem building. Operations will be speeded by NKK-developed computer systems for various functions including ship designing, work processing and ad-ministrative activities. Building fa-cilities will also be highly auto-mated. Three 24,000-dwt specialty tank-ers have been ordered by the Stolt-Nielsen Group, it was announced by Per Ditlevsen, president of Stolt-Nielsen Chartering, Inc., New York, N.Y. These three tankers are in addition to four 17,600-dwt simi-lar ships ordered last June. All seven ships will be built by Boel-werf N.V. in Temse, Belgium. The increasing worldwide de-mand for an assortment of liquid cargoes require specialty carriers, according to Mr. Ditlevsen. Im-proved systems for pumping, strip-ping, cleaning and cargo segrega-tion will be provided on the new ships together with stainless-coat-ed and double-skinned tanks. The actual construction contracts call for the sale of two 17,000-dwt ships to a subsidiary of Anglo Nor-ness Ltd. and two to Per Victor Liljegren of Sweden. One of the two 24,000 tonners will be owned by Exmar N.V., Antwerp, Belgium and two by Jacob Stolt-Nielsen A-S of Norway. All will be time-char-tered back to Stolt-Nielsen for 15 years. At the same time, Mr. Ditlevsen announced the promotion of Carroll N. Bjornson, New York chartering vice-president, to manager of Stolt-Nielsen Japan. Palle S. Bistrup has been promoted to manager of serv-ices between U.S., Europe and Far East with offices in New York. Jan Stromsted has been named to su-pervise vessel operations in the same service. 42 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News