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American Export Buys Large Trucking Firm American Export Industries Inc. lias executed a contract to acquire the stock of Eastern Express Inc.. a Terre Haute, Ind., trucking con-cern. for cash. Details of the acquisition have not been disclosed. The purchase was announced by Jakob Isbrandt-sen, president of American Export and W. M. House, chairman of Eastern Express. American Export is the diversi-fied parent of American Export Isbrandtsen Lines. Eastern Express, which is pri-vately owned, will become a sub-sidiary of American Export Indus-tries. Eastern's gross revenue is about $55-million a year. It oper-ates 2.500 vehicles and trailers in service in 14 states. Astilleros Launches Freedom Class Ship The Seville plant of Astilleros de Cadiz, S.A. has launched the Getaldic, the second vessel in the Freedom Hispania series ordered by Atlantska Providba of Yugoslavia. The 471-foot 6-inch Freedom His-pania vessels are being built in Spain under an agreement between the As-tilleros de Cadiz, S.A., and Algoship International, Canadian Algonquin Maritime and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries. V t$J / Freedom-class ship carrying containers, wheeled vehicles and packaged lumber. packaged lumber on deck. The propulsion machinery, con-structed by Astilleros de Cadiz, S.A. in Manises (Valencia), is principally composed of a Manises-Sulzer 6RD-68 type, 8,000-bhp, 150-rpm diesel engine. The Manises factory has also built some other equipment for the vessel, thus complementing the major work done by the Seville shipyards. At the same time as the Getaldic was being launched in the shipyard, plans for three new Freedom His-pania vessels to be constructed for the State Maritime Company of Chile were being drawn in another work-shop. Moffitt To Handle Exports Of Spongex For B.F. Goodrich Lucian Q. Moffitt, Inc., Akron, Ohio, has been appointed the export sales distributor for B. F. Goodrich Spongex plastic, surface floats, ac-cording to Moffitt president, Claire A. Drach. Spongex surface floats, rated 'ex-cellent' for sea service, are widely used on fishing nets and as crab pot markers. Featuring greater tensile strength than most flexible materials, the floats are made of Koroseal ? Goodrich's formulation of polyvinyl chloride. The floats are available in 28 sizes, three colors and three shapes: cylin-drical, oval and tapered. Many of the floats also are reinforced with solid plastic grommets to prevent rip-ping or splitting. Moffitt also is national and inter-national distributor of Goodrich Cut-less marine bearings and Ceramaloy marine products. A new technical bulletin (M-90), describing Spongex plastic, surface floats, is available from Lucian Q. Moffitt, Inc., P.O. Box 1415, Akron, Ohio 44309. HAVE YOU BEEN MISSING | || tt'vixiS' Sj: « magna -1 i ?bond m o Then you're missing th Exclusively manufactured by: e best MARINE COATING on the market PLASMA CHEMICAL SYSTEMS, INC. Telephone Inquires 13909 LEE JACKSON HIGHWAY Collect CHANTILLY, VIRGINIA 22021 (703 ) 471-7240 lu 1 - 1 * ? - \ J ,>m * , fs - - « , * WmSm ( BUILDING A NEW BOAT ? ^ MAIN OFFICE & FACTORY: 400 Trobold Road, Rochester, N.Y. 14624 MARINE DIVISION: 20 Vesey St., New York, N.Y. 10007 (212) 349-0079 Offices in SAN FRANCISCO . SAN PEDRO . SEATTLE ? MONTREAL . VANCOUVER on the S.S. PONCE DE LEON world's largest and fastest, roll-on/roll-off trailership built by Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. for Transamerican Trailer Transport, Inc. W&K designs, engineers and manufactures ships' closures for operation above and below water on any class of com-mercial, Naval or Coast Guard vessel. All meet the require-ments of A.B.C., U.S.C.G., Lloyds or any other classification society. VS? WALZ & KRENZER, INC. ? Overhaul For your next new vessel or repair job . . . call Matton first. MATTON SHIPYARD COMPANY INC. P. O. Box 428, Cohoes, New York 12047 \ Tel: 518 CE 7-3911 J supplied 14 BULKHEAD DOORS up to 15'6" x 16'6" and a sliding SHAFT ALLEY DOOR Matton Shipyard Company, Inc. offers complete facilities for all new construction of vessels up to 200 feet in length. ? Repairs ? Conversions 26 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News