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Sizes and types particularly manufactured for small and medium-sized commercial boats Tncorporating the same supreme qualities in design, engineering and operation exclusively characteristic of Kearfott windows for large vessels and for small and medium-sized commercial boats. Type 18-8 stain-less steel or corrosion-resisting aluminum, anodized. Suitable for boats presently operating or on whicli construction is contemplated. SINGER-GENERAL PRECISION, INC. KEARFOTT MARINE PRODUCTS 21 WEST STREET. NEW YORK. N. Y. 10006 SINGER KEARFOTT Write for design and specification sheet and for quotations. be reforwarded by rail up to Mont-real and Toronto under ocean bills of lading. Dart Container Line intends to apply for membership into the various conferences servicing the trades. Gull Oil Promotes Stark To Supervisor Int'l Marine Sales William E. Stark William E. Stark has been pro-moted to supervisor, international marine sales, Atlantic Coast, for Gulf Oil Trading Company, a sub-sidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation. In his new position, Mr. Stark will be responsible for marine sales along the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. A native of Riverhead, Long Is-land. he attended public schools there and graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point in 1950 as a marine engineer. Mr. Stark joined Gulf in 1963 as a sales engineer for GOTCO in Houston, Texas. In 1965 he was transferred to New York in the same capacity and in 1968 was pro-moted to senior sales engineer, international marine sales for GOTCO. Prior to joining Gulf, Mr. Stark sailed for five years in the U.S. merchant marine and served an ad-ditional two years in the U.S. Navy as an engineering officer. He is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of Marine Port Engineers. New York, and holds a chief engi-neer's unlimited horse-power-steam license. Todd Houston To Build Petro-Chemical Barge ?8th For Same Owners Arthur W. Stout Jr., general manager of Todd Shipyards Cor-poration (Houston Division) has announced the signing of a contract to build one 203-foot by 35-foot by 10-foot 6-inch petro-chemical barge for the B2 Towing Company of I louston. This is the 8th in a series of similar barges that the Todd Houston plant has constructed for the B2 and allied interests during a five-year period. The barge which will be known as the "B-29" will be built for trade on inland water-ways of the Gulf Coast. The B2 Towing Company, a well-known Houston-based concern, which is associated with the Rio Towing Company, is headed by C. C. Brooks. Dart Container Line Formed By Consortium For North Atlantic Run The Belgian Line, Inc. and Bris-tol City Line, Inc., have announced that the consortium put together by Compagnie Maritime Beige (Antwerp), Bristol City Line (Bristol) and Clarke Traffic Serv-ices (Montreal), for the purpose of operating a joint container service between Canada and the United States on one hand, and the United Kingdom and the Continent on the other hand, has been named Dart Container Line Company Limited. A new corporation is now being formed. Pending the introduction, in 1970, of super containerships now being built, Dart Container Line will provide a weekly service from New York and Norfolk to Antwerp and Southampton, starting in June with four Belgian Line Painter-class vessels chartered from Compagnie Maritime Beige. The Dart Container Line service from Canada will also be inaugu-rated in June. Sailings will be on a ten-day basis but frequency will rapidly become weekly. Ports in Europe will be Antwerp and Southampton, and in Canada, Hali-fax. From Halifax, containers will SHIP STORES CONTAINERS by For Moore-McCormack "Sea Bridge" fleet being built by Ingalls Shipbuilding {, HINGED WINDSHIELDS by Kearfott BUILDING A NEW BOAT ? cal1 Mfttfotl first-Matton Shipyard Company, Inc. offers complete facilities for all new construction of vessels up to 200 feet in length. ? Repairs ? Conversions ? 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 Pre-loading stores in Dorsey-designed refrigerated containers will help new automated ships cut days off port time. for information, contact Special Projects Division DORSEY TRAILERS ? ELBA, ALA., 36323 205/897-2241 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News