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MacGregor To Supply All The Hatch Covers For 35 Cargo Ships To Be Built In Brazil Profile and deck plans of 12,000-dwt cargo ships to be built in Brazil and equipped with MacGregor hatch covers. A totol of 24 of these ships are to be built. MacGregor -Comarain, Inc. of New York City has announced that the MacGregor International Or-ganization has been awarded a $10-million order for hatch cover equip-ment for the 35-ship Brazilian na-tional shipbuilding program. The main part of this program, author-ized by the Brazilian government in September, 1967, is for twenty-four 12,000-dwt fast cargo liners and will provide the three major shipyards with a full workload for a period of about four years. Another part of the program con-sists of eleven 7,400-dwt cargo ves-sels. All these ships will be equipped with MacGregor 'single-pull' hatch covers on the weather decks and MacGregor/Ermans flush-sliding covers in the 'tween decks. For the 12,000-tonners this will involve some 355,000 square feet of hatch cover surface and for the smaller ships about 70,000 square feet. The fine hull form of the 12,000-dwt ships incorporates a modern bulbous bow and 'clear water' type stern configuration. Deep tanks will be fitted forward in No. 1 hold and are to be suitable for the car-riage of vegetable oils, general car-go or water ballast. The aftermost hold, No. 5, will be refrigerated. The other holds and 'tween deck spaces will be fitted for general cargo with Nos. 2. 3 and 4 holds additionally fitted for standard 20-foot containers. Access will be via triple hatches abreast in Nos. 3 and 4 holds with centerline hatches elsewhere. All holds will be fitted with Cargocaire equipment and their total grain cubic will be 700,-000 cubic feet. Cargo handling gear will consist of a combination of deck cranes and derricks. These highly automated cargo liners will have an operational range of some 12.000 nautical miles and their construction is being fi-nanced by the Brazilian Merchant Marine Commission. The operat-ing managers will be Lloyd Brasil-eiro (12 ships), Navegacao Mercan-til S.A. (4 ships), C. de N. Mari-tima Netumar (4 ships), and C. N. Alianca (4 ships). The shipbuild-ing allocation is between Comp. Comercio E Navegacao Estaleiro Maua (8 ships), Verolme Estaleir-os Reunidos Do Brasil S.A. (8 ships) and Ishikawajima Do Brasil Estaleiros S.A. (8 ships). The first vessel is scheduled to be launched by the end of 1969. Maua and Ve-rolme will build to Lloyd's Regis-ter Classification and the Ishikawa-jima shipyard will build in accord-ance with the requirements of the American Bureau of Shipping. The other 11 cargo vessels of 7.400 dwt will be operated by Lin-has Brasileiras de Navegacao S.A. and will be suitable for the car-riage of containers. They will be built by three smaller Brazilian shipyards, Industrias Reunidas Caneco S.A. (4 ships), Estaleiro So S.A. (2 ships), and Engenharia E Maquinas S.A. (5 ships) and de-livery is scheduled to begin in 1969-70. The three holds of each vessel will have MacGregor 'single-pull' hatch covers on the weather decks. The MacGregor/Ermans flush-sliding 'tween deck covers will be designed to withstand a layer of 20-foot standard containers. Hustler Names Delrich Vice-President Sales Raymond Delrich Raymond Delrich has been ap-pointed vice-president of sales by Hustler Products Corporation of Camarillo, Calif, and Sydney, Nova Scotia, it was announced by Wylie A. Mason Jr., president of the firm. Mr. Delrich will head marketing activities for all of the products of the firm, including a complete line of intermodal shipping containers, trailers, water purification systems and modular housing units. Hus-tler's main manufacturing facility is located at 333 Lewis Road in Camarillo, Calif. A new plant is under construction in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Mr. Delrich will make his headquarters in the firm's home office at 373 Dawson Drive, Camarillo, Calif. 93010. Before joining Hustler. Mr. Del-rich was vice-president of container sales for Standard Railway Equip-ment Division of Stanray Corpo-ration of Chicago and executive vice-president of Litewate Trans-port Equipment Corporation of Milwaukee. Previously, he was manager of research and planning at American President Lines, Ltd., in San Francisco, where he was responsible for the development of that company's container program. A graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and Georgetown University, Mr. Delrich was a ships' officer in World War II and served with the Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service during the Korean War. He is a director of the Container-ization Institute and a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Operation Research Society of America, Na-tional Defense Transportation As-sociation and the Propeller Club. British Firm To Charter Gas-Turbine Ships To Seatrain Lines, Inc. A joint British-American con-tainership operation for North At-lantic service is under negotiation between Seatrain Lines, Inc., of New York, and an unnamed Brit-ish firm. Two ships for the opera-tion have been ordered from Rhein-stahl Nordseewerke, in Germany. These ships will be propelled by Pratt & Whitney gas turbines which will give the ships a 25-knot sea speed. The 750-foot ships are scheduled for delivery in 1970 and will be registered in Great Britain. The British firm will in turn charter the ships to Seatrain Lines. Matson's container ship, the S.S. Pacific Trader Spend Money and Labor To Clean Fuel Oil Screens? Forget It! 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