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Moller Group Orders 272,000-DWT Tanker A 272,000-dwt tanker has been or-dered by the A. P. Moller Group of Copenhagen from Odense Staalskibs-vaerft, A/S. The shipyard is a sub-sidiary of the Moller Group. Accord-ing to the report, the yard now has 10 ships of over 200,000 tons on or-der, and is the only yard in Denmark now constructing tankers of such a size. The new vessel is due for de-livery in 1971/1972. Florida Ports Elect W. O. Savage President The Florida Ports and Foreign Trades Council, an organization comprised of representatives from each of Florida's 20 seaports, has elected William O. Savage, of Tampa as president for the coming year. Mr. Savage is president of A. R. Savage & Son, steamship agents in Tampa and Jacksonville. Other officers elected include J. E. Jaudon, port manager of Palm Beach, vice-president; E. P. Nick-erson Jr., vice-president of John A. Merritt Co., Pensacola, secretary, and Adm. I. J. Stephens, port di-rector of Miami, treasurer. The Council's principal function is to develop foreign trade through Florida ports and to stimulate Florida industry to become active in foreign trade. The Council is the recipient of the Presidential "E" Ask the ratchet maker with the CONTAINERSHIP KNOW-HOW This is just one of many ratchets made by Patterson specifically to the require-ments of container carriers. One of them will suit you, too! All Patterson container lashing ratch-ets have the strength, speed, facility and safety to answer your tie-down problems or fit your practice. Write for the new Patterson Containership Lash-ing Catalog. YOU'LL BE SHOCKED... at the enormous selection of U. S. Coast Guard and U. L. Marine Type Listed RECEPTACLES, PLUGS, FIXTURES and FITTINGS you'll find in the (pgjjj^ CATALOG Write for it .. . IT'S FREE!!! i PATTERSON ? W. W. PATTERSON CO. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15233 836 Brocket St., ? 412/332-2012 Pauluhn Electric Mfg. Co., Inc. 422 Broome St., New York, N. Y. 10013 Phone: (212) 226-3897-8 award for outstanding contribu-tions to the export expansion pro-gram of the United States. Frank L. LoRe Named Raytheon Marine Unit Manufacturing Manager Frank L. LoRe Frank L. LoRe has been named manufacturing manager for Ray-theon Company's Marine Products Operation. South San Francisco, Calif. He will direct all manufac-turing and related functions at the plant which produces radio tele-phones, depth sounders, radars, and other marine electronic aids as well as ultrasonic measuring systems. Mr. LoRe joined Raytheon Com-pany in 1967 as a manufacturing consultant on the corporate staff. Prior to that he was corporate manager of inventory control for Consolidated Packaging Corp. Earlier, he held production, mate-rial control, and manufacturing en-gineering posts with Motorola, Sperry Rand, and Federal Tele-phone and Radio Company. He was previously an instructor at St. John's University, College of Busi-ness Administration. . Mr. LoRe holds a bachelor's de-gree from St. John's University and a master's degree from New York University. He is a member of the American Production and Inventory Control Society, the American Ordnance Association, and the American Management Association. Bethlehem To Convert T-2 Tanker Lynchburg Into Sulfur Carrier Bethlehem Steel Company's Key Highway and Sparrows Point, Md. shipyards will convert the T-2 tanker Lynchburg into a liquefied sulfur carrier. The conversion, to cost $8,692,000, will be performed for Marine Navigation Company and Marine Sulphur Shipping Cor-poration. The announcement of the con-version was made by the Maritime Administration when the chief of the office of Ship Operations ap-proved the trade-out of the govern-ment-owned T-2 tanker in exchange for the bulk-carrier Mariner Collier. The Lynchburg was valued at $285,000 by the government and the Marine Collier at $56,000. Bethlehem's Sparrows Point shipyard will build an entirely new forebody for the vessel. The Key Highway yard will cut off the ex-isting T-2 forebody and install the new section. 40 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News