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Paceco To Supply San Francisco's First Container Crane The San Francisco Port Commis-sion has awarded Paceco a contract for the Port's first container-hand-ling crane. It will be installed next spring at the new 68-acre Army Street Terminal. Called a "Portainer," the new crane will handle 20- and 40-foot containers weighing as much as 30 long tons. By traveling over rails al-ready installed at the $27-million terminal complex, the single crane will be capable of servicing four of its eight berths. The Portainer's boom, when low-ered to its horizontal (loading/off-loading) position, will have an out-reach of 113.5 feet. When the crane changes working areas or is not hand-ling containers, the boom is raised, giving the crane an overall height of 210 feet. It will be used initially by Amer-ican President Lines and States Steamship Company. Paceco, a division of Fruehauf Corporation, has designed and built more container cranes for ports than all other crane manufacturers in the world combined. The San Francisco order brings to 36 the number of in-ternational ports with Paceco Por-tainers in operation or on order. Houston Port Expansion To Handle Containers Starts This Month The first step in a construction project aimed at improving and expanding the Port of Houston's container-handling facilities started this month, according to J. P. Turn-er, executive director. The initial phase, to cost an esti-mated $750,000, will provide a 16-acre container marshalling yard immediately behind wharves 26 and 29, two of the six modern open-type wharves designed especially to handle containers. This will be followed by the installation of a bridge crane. Several container cranes are al-ready in operation and plans are under study for the installation of two gantry cranes on the two wharves. The immediate project will be the first of several planned by the port in which new marshalling yards and associated facilities are to be built, according to Mr. Turner. Jiri Nekoksa Joins Wilson, Walton Int. Jiri Nekoksa has joined Wilson, Walton International of Hoboken, N.J. as manager of the Cathodic Engineering Department, it was announced by Charles Potosnak, vice-president of the firm. Mr. Nekoksa was formerly associated with Chemoproject Design, Engi-neering and Consulting Corp. of Prague, Czechoslovakia, and was active in projects of pipe line en-gineering design for chemicals, petroleum products and water. Mooremack Planning Roll-On/Roll-Off Ramp For Elizabeth Terminal A stern ramp platform for hand-ling roll-on/roll-off cargo for the new Sea-Bridge class ships of Moore-Mc-Cormack Lines is planned for the company's berths at the Port of New York Authority's Elizabeth Terminal complex on Newark Bay. Application for permission to build the platform has been made by the Port Authority to the U.S. Corps of Engineers. The platform, approximately 64 feet by 75 feet, is to be built at the northeast corner of the terminal de-velopment, where the Port Elizabeth Channel enters Newark Bay. The concrete deck will rest on steel piles penetrating to rock about 85 feet be-low mean low water. Moore-McCormack already has put the first of the new Sea-Bridge ships, the Mormacsea, into service and ex-pects delivery of the remaining three from the Ingalls Shipyard, Pasca-goula, Miss., by the end of this year. They are designed for lift-on/lift-off containerized freight as well as for roll-on/roll-off. Interolsen Appoints Collins Los Angeles District Manager S. F. Alioto, chairman and chief executive officer, Interolsen Agen-cies, Inc., San Francisco, has an-nounced the appointment of Ro-bert E. Collins as district manager for Los Angeles. Mr. Collins has been northern California sales manager for States Line since January, 1966. From 1955 to 1966 he was employed in San Francisco by Westfal-Larsen Company, Inc. as traffic manager. Mr. Collins studied business ad-ministration at the University of San Francisco. "We are delighted to obtain the services of Mr. Collins to continue implementation of our total-trans-portation total-cost concept" said Mr. Alioto. "He knows the Pacific Coast/European trade and the trans-Pacific trade and has had ex-tensive experience with modern transportation equipment and tech-niques." As district manager for Inter-olsen Agencies in Los Angeles, Mr. Collins will work closely with shippers and receivers of cargo, concentrating on Fred. Olsen In-terocean Line and Scindia Steam Navigation Company services, rep-resented by Interolsen on the Paci-fic Coast. Bender To Build Three Twin-Screw Towboats Bender Welding & Machine Co., Mobile, Ala., has been contracted by Radclif fe Materials, Inc., Mobile, Ala., for the construction of three twin-screw towboats. Designated Hull Nos. 404, 405 and 406, each towboat is to have the following dimensions: 83 feet by 38 feet by 8 feet and will be powered with 1,700-total-bhp diesels. ARCO Breaks Ground For Large Refinery To Use Alaskan Oil Atlantic Richfield Company re-cently broke ground for a new 100,-000-barrel-a-day oil refinery on a 1,200-acre site 11 miles northwest of Bellingham, Wash. U.S. Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Thornton F. Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield, and top state and local officials simultaneously sparked an electrical contact which set off a series of earth-scattering blasts marking the start of formal construction of the largest installa-tion of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. The new plant at Cherry Point, on the Strait of Georgia, is expect-ed to be completed by late 1971 at a cost of more than $100,000,000. Mr. Bradshaw said major com-ponents of the new refinery will in-clude a 100,000-barrel-a-day pipe still, 35,000-barrel-a-day hydro-cracker, 35,000-barrel-a-day catalv-tic reformer, 60,000,000-cubic-feet-per-day hydrogen generation plant and a 29,000-barrel-per-day delayed coker. ? Crude oil from Alaska will be shipped to the Cherry Point refin-ery by tanker. Plans call for a pier extending about 2,000 feet into the Strait of Georgia, capable of han-dling tankers of up to 125,000 dwt and 75,000 dwt at separate loca-tions. Refined products will be moved to market by pipeline, barge and tanker. Other ARCO refineries are lo-cated near Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago and at Sin-clair, Wyo. General contractor for the de-sign and construction of the refin-ery is Ralph M. Parsons Co., of Los Angeles. Todd Nominates W.B. Rand A Director William B. Rand William B. Rand, former presi-dent of U.S. Lines Co., has been nominated as a director of Todd Shipyards Corporation, it was an-nounced by J. T. Gilbride, presi-dent of Todd. Mr. Rand will stand for election at the annual meeting of stockholders, June 18, 1969. Mr. Rand served as president of the United States Lines Company from 1961 to 1966. Since that time he has served as an independent shipping consultant. He is a trustee of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company and the Dollar Savings Bank and a di-rector of the Marine Midland Grace National Bank, Luckenbach Steam-ship Company, Inc., and the George W. Rogers Construction Corpora-tion. Atlantic Container Line Relocates N.Y. Offices Atlantic Container Line, Ltd. has announced that it is moving its head-quarters to new offices at 30 Church Street, New York, N.Y. Formerly located at 26 Broadway, ACL's ex-ecutive and administrative offices will now be located on the 19th floor at the new address. ST. LOUIS SHIP LAYS KEEL for snagboat/towboot Ros. The new 170-foot by 42-foot by 7-foot 8-inch vessel will be powered with 1,000-total horsepower diesels and will be equipped with three 40-foot-long spuds and a diesel-powered 60-ton-capacity revolving crane. The Ros is intended for use on the Alabama, Blackhawk and Tombigbee river systems. Delivery is scheduled for early 1970. Participating in the keel laying were, left to right: William Thorns, resident inspector, USAE; Richard P. Conerly, president, Pott Industries Inc.; George A. Johnson, chief Marine Design Div., USAE Philadelphia; Col. James A. Johnson, contracting officer, USAE Philadelphia; John W. Gurley, chief of Operations Div., USAE St. Louis; Col. Robert E. Snetzer, district engineer, USAE Mobile; Robert J. Patrick, chief engineer, St. Louis Ship; Mrs. Edwin R. Decker, wife of the district engineer, USAE St. Louis; Stephen Jeney, chief Repair and Construction Branch, Marine Design Div., USAE North Atlantic; Thomas 0. Gaillard, chief of Oper-ations Div., USAE Mobile, and Edward Renshaw, president, St. Louis Ship. 16 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News