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Financial Aid Asked For Gas-Turbine Tanker Western Ocean Transport Company, New York, NY., has applied to the Maritime Admin-istration for Title XI construction loan and mortgage insurance on a 38,400-dwt tanker. The tanker is to have a gas-turbine propulsion plant. The estimated cost of the vessel is $11.5-million. According to the announcement, the hull would be constructed by Gunderson Bros. Engineering Corporation, Portland, Ore. and outfitting would be done by National Steel and Shipbuilding Com-pany, San Diego, Calif. Standard ISO Containers Serve As Special Bulk Units International Ferry Freight Ltd. (I.F.F.) of England has developed in conjunction with I.C.I, plastics division a system for carrying granular chemicals in bulk in standard ISO box containers, which are back-loaded with general freight, there-by eliminating the costly return of empty con-tainers. The containers and tipping skeletal trail-ers used in the system are being manufactured and marketed by York Trailer Company Ltd., Corby, Northants. This is an important development in container operation which will increase the possibility of exporting granular materials in bulk, with advan-tages both to supplier and to consumer. The plas-tics division of I.C.I, has actively participated in this development because it will make it possible to supply plastic materials in bulk to customers in countries overseas to which the cost of delivery in bulk has previously been prohibitive. York Trailer Company Ltd, is currently build-ing a number of 30-foot ISO dry freight con-tainers for this traffic. They are standard steel boxes with simple modifications that in no way impair the container's general utility and add only about 20 percent to its price. A specially-built bulk container is said to cost about six times as much as a modified York unit. The handling system and container modifications are the subject of a patent application by I.F.F. The system works like this: a disposable plas-tic lining, made from Alkathene, I.C.I.'s poly-thene, is put inside the container and temporarily inflated to expand it to the contours of the in-terior. The cargo is then loaded from a hopper into the liner through four roof hatches, the hatches being used in turn to distribute the ma-terials evenly in the container. When the contain-er is full, the liner is sealed, the hatches closed and the container dispatched as a standard ISO container. At the destination port, the container is trans-ferred to a tipping skeletal trailer for transporta-tion to the customer's plant. There, the hatch in the front end wall is opened and a funnel shaped discharge box, connected to a large-bore outlet pipe, is attached. The container is then tipped to off-load the cargo into a pneumatic discharge system. With the disposable plastic bag discarded and all hatches closed the unit is, to all intents, a standard ISO container again, able to carry any dry freight cargo that can be loaded through its standard container rear doors. York Trailer has introduced a tipping skeletal trailer for use with the container. It has a regular skeletal frame, but the outriggers?with inter-national twistlocks?instead of being mounted di-rectly on the chassis, are fitted to a perimeter sub-frame which is pivotted at the rear end and tipped by a standard tipping gear. New Tanker Rate Procedure Goes Into Effect On luly 1? Replaces Intascale And ATRS A new tanker rate procedure to be used in de-termining the cost of transporting oil and other petroleum products on a worldwide basis has been published. It is scheduled to go into effect on July 1. It will be known as the Worldscale Rate Schedule. This latest rate formula designation is expected to provide a more efficient method in reflecting truer costs in the daily operation of a tanker, and also in reducing time used for loading and dis-charging cargo?commonly referred to in ship-ping circles as laytime. Worldscale is actually made up of reference points using percentages which are published tariffs covering the cost of transporting a long ton of petroleum from and to designated ports in the world. It has been designed to replace other rate schedules now in use, such as Intascale and the American Tanker Rate Schedule (ATRS). While implementation of the Worldscale Sched-ule has been set for the first day of July, it will not automatically become effective in all areas of the market. The Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS), which charters a large portion of tank-er cargo space from American owners, is known to be studying the situation. No official position has been declared by the government agency, which contracts all its U.S.-flag oil ship require-ments under American tanker rate schedule (ATRS) terms. The new Worldscale book will contain nearly 50,000 various rate calculations and can be pur-chased for $100 per copy through the offices of the Association of Shipbrokers and Agents, 17 Battery Place, New York, N.Y. 10004, or through the International Tanker Nominal Freight Scale Association Ltd., Baltic Exchange Chambers, 24 St. Mary Axe., London E.C. 3. Borg-Warner Names Patrick President Of York Division Gerard V. Patrick, chairman and chief ex-ecutive officer of the York division of Borg-Warner Corporation, has also been named president of the division. Mr. Patrick, who will continue as chairman, succeeds as president William H. Roberts, who has resigned. Mr. Patrick's appointment was announced by Stanley J. Roush, Borg-Warner executive vice-president-air conditioning and building products. York, based in York, Pa., is a major manufacturer of air conditioning and refriger-ation equipment. Mr. Patrick joined York in 1963 as president after serving as managing director of Borg-Warner (Australia) Ltd. He was named vice-chairman of York in 1965 and chairman in 1966. SNAME Publishes New Text-Ship Design And Construction "Ship Design and Construction," the newly revised edition of "Design and Construction of Steel Merchant Ships" published in 1955, brings to the fore the marine profession's un-precedented strides in the design and construc-tion of merchant ships from 1955 to the space age. The new book, published by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, rep-resents the untiring efforts and professional experience of the editor, Amelio M. D'Arcan-gelo, professor of naval architecture and ma-rine engineering at the University of Michigan, and 22 authors, all acknowledged authorities in their particular fields. A Control Committee of ten professional leaders, chaired by David B. Bannerman Jr., has provided expert guid-ance through all phases of the book from the planning stage to the review of all manu-scripts. Completely updating "Design and Construc-tion of Steel Merchant Ships" and comple-menting "Principles of Naval Architecture" published in 1967, the new "Ship Design and Construction" contains 618 pages and 450 il-lustrations. The underlying reasons for estab-lished practice are explained; material in oth-er publications has not been included or has been considerably abridged and non-essential historical background has been omitted. In ad-dition, each chapter contains many helpful references. This new edition provides the student with the knowledge of how merchant ships are de-signed and constructed, establishing a good background for more advanced study. For the professional, it highlights and defines the basic design problems, providing references to tech-nical data. Distinctively bound in blue, the book may be purchased from The Society of Naval Ar-chitects and Marine Engineers, 74 Trinity Place, New York, N.Y. 10006. The price per copy for members is $20.00 (10 percent dis-count when payment accompanies order)?for non-members $30.00. (Mailing outside North America?$2.50.) NUCLEAR FISH?Nuclear powered attack submarine Flying Fish hits the water at recent launching at Electric Boat division of General Dynamics. Flying Fish, 34th nuclear sub launched by the company, was christened by Mrs. John W. Harvey of Hamden, Conn., widow of the commanding officer of the Thresher. Principal speak-er at the ceremony was Adm. I. J. Galantin, chief of naval material. 60 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News