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Nylon brushes or plugs.

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Atlantic Richfield

Orders GE Turbines

For Alaskan Tankers

General Electric Company, West

Lynn, Mass., has been awarded the contract to supply propulsion equipment for the largest com- mercial vessels ever to be built in this country. The company's ma- rine turbine and gear department will start delivering geared steam turbines in 1972 for the first of three 120,000-dwt Atlantic Rich- field Company supertankers. They will be built by Bethlehem Steel at its Sparrows Point, Md. ship- yard.

The General Electric geared steam turbines will develop 26,000 shp at 85 rpm in the 883-foot-long tankers. Steam conditions will be 580 psig 900 F.

Atlantic Richfield will use the tankers to transport Alaskan North

Slope crude oil from Valdez on the

Gulf of Alaska to points on the

West Coast of the United States.

Each tanker will have a capacity of 940,000 barrels. The tankers will have a breadth of 138 feet, a depth of 68 feet, and a loaded draft of 51 feet 10 inches, and a speed of 16 knots. The vessels will be single- screw with bridge aft.

In announcing the order from

General Electric, Hughes W. Ogil- vie, manager of marketing for the marine turbine and gear depart-

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Matton Shipyard Company, Inc. offers complete facilities for all new construction of vessels up to 200 feet in length. ment, pointed out that the over- whelming number of large tankers and containerships now on order will be propelled by steam. He said that of the 333 merchant ship pro- pulsion plants on order throughout the free world today in the over 27,500-shp category, over 80 percent are steam-powered, indicating the modern steam plant is considered the most cost-effective by ship- owners.

Hoffman Rigging Names

Belej New Controller

Michael Belej

Michael Belej has joined Hoff- man Rigging & Crane Service,

Inc. of Belleville, N.J. as control- ler. Mr. Belej, a certified public ac- countant, was formerly on the staff of the public accounting firm of

Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Com- pany of Newark.

A graduate of Farleigh Dickin- son University, Mr. Belej is a member of the New Jersey State

Society of Certified Public Ac- countants and the American In- stitute of Certified Public Ac- countants.

SSI Container Opens

New Facility In Seattle

Greer M. Arthur Jr., president of SSI Container Corporation, an- nounced that the company had ex- panded its container-leasing oper- ations into the Pacific Northwest with the opening of a new facility in Seattle, Wash. The new office, located at 40 South Spokane Street, will be under the direction of Ter- rance R. Thomas II, who was ap- pointed SSI's regional sales man- ager for the Pacific Northwest, in- cluding Portland, Ore., and Van- couver, B.C.

Prior to assuming his new posi- tion, Mr. Thomas was with States

Steamship Company for two years, most recently as assistant manager of the container division. His pro- fessional affiliations include the

Transportation Club of San Fran- cisco and the Junior World Trade.

Mr. Thomas is a graduate of Seat- tle University.

A subsidiary of ITEL Corpora- tion, SSI Container Corporation leases maritime cargo containers for the transportation of freight by ship, truck, and rail. Regional of- fices and operating facilities are lo- cated in San Francisco, New York,

Chicago, Tokyo, and London.

Agents are based in Hong Kong,

Keelung (Taiwan), Sydney, Mel- bourne, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Los Angeles. 34 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News