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Scandinavian Owners Pool Fleets To Operate In Far East Service Three Scandinavian shipping companies have pooled their re-sources to become the largest con-cern plying the European-Far East route. The combined fleet will total 33 ships aggregating 412,000 dwt. The companies?The Swedish East Asia Company of Gothenburg, Wilh. Wilhelmsen of Oslo, Nor-way, and The East Asiatic Com-pany of Copenhagen, Denmark? announced jointly that the pool, to be called the Scandinavian Joint Shipping Service, or Scanservice for short, will enable them to call at 28 ports in 22 countries, offering eight sailings a week in each direc-tion. Under the directorship of Borge Rathje at headquarters in Copen-hagen, Scanservice will cut out competition between the three com-panies, offer opportunities for greater rationalization and effec-In a single "front" combi full opening night reflectioi tivity and facilitate greater use of containerships, a spokesman for the group said. Scanservice will go into opera-tion on April 1, with a timetable that specifies exact dates of arrival and departure from each port 12 months in advance, enabling im-porters and exporters to plan ship-ments more easily. Of the 33 ships, 16 will be con-tributed by the Danish company, 8 by the Norwegian and 9 by the Swedish company. REFLECTION-PROOF elf-contained unit, the Kearfott es practically unobstructed vision, lien desired, weathertightness and elimination. Write for details Humble Oil Names Chase Senior Marine Sales Representative Herschel Chase Herschel Chase has been pro-moted to the professional rank of senior marine sales representative, according to a recent announce-ment made by Humble Oil & Re-fining Company, Los Angeles, Calif. A native of Houston, Texas, Mr. Chase has been a Humble employee for 22 years. He attended the Uni-versity of Houston and joined Humble in the Controller's Depart-ment at Houston in 1946. He later moved to the Exploration Depart-ment as a draftsman in the geologic section, then to machinist in the geophysics section and joined the Marketing Department in 1964 as consumer sales representative in Los Angeles. He later joined the region marketing staff as commer-cial representative and was ap-pointed marine sales representative in Los Angeles in September, 1967. MSTS Requesting Bids For Shipping Services Worth $200-Million The world's largest ocean-freight traffic order worth more than $200-million, has been put up for bidding by the Military Sea Transportation Service. The Defense Department's trans-portation agency has announced that it would require approximately 6.6 million measurement tons of shipping during the fiscal year 1970, which be-gins July 1. A measurement ton, a unit of volume for cargo freight, equals 40 cubic feet. The agency's requirements are up sharply from fiscal 1969 when the agency shipped 5.6 million tons of military cargo throughout the world. 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