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KOCKS line leading to shore. Flexible submarine hoses connect from the underside of the buoy to the sea pipeline. Floating hoses that can rotate in a full circle connect from the top of the buoy to the tankers' cargo discharge lines. The buoy will be equipped with navigational lights, fog horns and automatic safety equip-ment. It remains operational in almost all weather and ships can remain safely moored to the buoy even during storms of great in-tensity. Similar-type single-point mooring systems are in successful operation in various parts of the world, including Italy. Korea, Japan and off the coast of Africa. Although it is possible to equip the buoy to load as well as unload tankers, the system being constructed by COT (H) will discharge tankers only. ACT (U.S.A.) Announces Appointments Of Northen And Chakas As V-P's Michael Northen Donald Chakas The appointments of Michael Northen as executive vice-president and Donald Chakas as vice-president-operations have been announced bv Associated Container Transportation (U.S. A'.), 90 West Street, New York, N.Y. Both men have been with ACT (U.S.A.) since its in-ception in February. Mr. Northen has the responsibility for de-veloping and coordinating the new service which will operate between North America and Australia/New Zealand, starting early in 1971. Before joining ACT, Mr. Northen held vari-ous positions of responsibility with the U.K.-based Blue Star Line in the course of which he gained in-depth knowledge of the Australia/ New Zealand/North American trade. He had served in the Royal Navy before his associ-ation with Blue Star beginning in 1949. In 1956 lie was assigned to the line's Wellington, New Zealand office. There he initiated a claims procedure and specialized in cargo stowage. He was transferred to New York in 1964 to establish and manage Blue Star's East Coast North American services. Mr. Chakas shares responsibility for devel-oping and managing ACT. He had been with Caterpillar Tractor Company prior to this asso-ciation, as supervisor of domestic traffic, then as supervisor of export traffic. During his 16 years with that company he earned an out-standing reputation as an expert in both the export field and in the development of contain-erization and intermodal transportation. Mr. Chakas is a gradaute of the University of Illinois and attended the college of Advance Traffic and John Marshall Law School. He is a member of the Association of Interstate Com-merce Practitioners, the American Society of Traffic and Transportation and Delta Nu Al-pha (transportation fraternity). Marine Construction To Build Oceangoing Fishing Boat Marine Construction & Design Co., Seattle, Wash., will build an oceangoing fishing boat for Thor Olsen of Seattle. The boat will meas-ure 94 feet by 25 feet by 12 feet and be equipped with a single-screw 565-bhp diesel. Continental Oil Building First UK Offshore Mooring Facility Construction has begun on the first offshore mooring facility in the United Kingdom. The system already in use in various parts of the world permits supertankers to discharge crude oil at ports where the giant ships cannot navi-gate or where berthing conditions are not fav-orable. Called the Single Point Mooring System, the facility is being built by Crude Oil Terminals (Humber) Ltd. on behalf of Continental Oil (UK) Limited, and will be located at the mouth of the Humber estuary, about five miles from Tetney Haven on the mainland. When completed late next year, the floating buoy connecting pipelines and storage facilities will provide an oil link from the Humber estu-ary through Tetney Haven and terminating at Conoco's Humber refinery at nearby South Killingholme. The project calls for a 36-inch, five-mile sea line from the offshore installation to Tetney Haven where a storage tank farm is being con-structed. The storage consists of four tanks with a total capacity of one-million barrels. From Tetney Haven a 14-mile, 22-inch pipe-line will deliver the crude oil to Conoco's Hum-ber refinery. Total cost of the project is esti-mated at $17-million. Coordination of the de-sign, engineering and construction is under control of Conoco's engineering division. The mooring system will be capable of han-dling tankers up to 200,000 dwt full laden. Ini-tially, however, it will be restricted to vessels of about 110,000 dwt, due to the depth of water in the approaches to the buoy. Anchored in position in four directions, the single point mooring is connected to a sea pipe-Anchor Windlass combined with ELHYDY - Mooring Winch ELectro - HYdro - DYnamically driven by continuously running squirrel-cage motor and torque converter Extremely wide range of pull and speed Stepless control Instant reaction to variation of load The most economic Winch for Ore / Oil / Bulk-Carriers, Tankers and other Large Type Vessels Friedrich Kocks GmbH 28 Bremen, P. O. B. 1 Richard-Dunkel-Str. 55 Telex 02-44863 Representative: Walter Christiansen Inc., 195 Paterson Avenue Little Falls, New Jersey 07424 24 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News