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Zim Israel To Add 33 New Ships By 1980

The board of directors of Zim Israel Naviga- tion Co. recently announced a fleet develop- ment program for 1970-80. The board approved orders for 33 additional cargo ships with a total capacity of 2,100,000 dwt at a cost of $300 million.

By 1980 Zim's fleet will include 170 cargo ships totaling 4 million tons dwt. The present fleet is made up of 140 ships totaling 1.4 million tons dwt.

The new orders will include three tankers: one 300,000 tons dwt, and the other two 250,000 tons; eight bulk ships of 120,000 tons each; two roll-on/roll-off ships of 4,000 tons each; 12 container ships, six 25,000 tons and six 15,- 000 tons each; and eight cargo ships totaling 100,000 tons dwt.

Development plans in connection with the expanded fleet involve the following: a train- ing center will be established to provide pro- fessional manpower equipped to handle the most modern fleet, while the company's com- mercial activity will be strengthened and widened in order to make full utilization of the new ships. In the meantime, the possibility of self-insurance of part of the fleet is being checked out, in view of the steep rise in the fleet's value and a similarly steep rise in in- surance expenses. "the name" is all you need to know about anchors & chains:

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Todd Shipyard Announces

Four Management Changes

Angel Garate Austin D. Shean

Joseph A. Kochanczyk Lester V. Martin

John T. Gilbride, president of Todd Ship- yards Corporation, has announced a number of management changes affecting the com- pany's Brooklyn and San Francisco divisions, to be effective July 1.

The present general manager of Todd's

Brooklyn Yard, Angel Garate, will be trans- ferred to the same position in the company's rapidly expanding San Francisco Division. He will succeed Austin D. Shean in this position.

Mr. Shean will transfer to the company's New

York office as director of safety and compen- sation control, replacing John S. Smith Jr., who will retire as assistant to the president and safety director.

Joseph A. Kochanczyk will succeed Mr.

Garate as general manager of Todd Brooklyn, and that yard's project engineer, Lester V.

Martin, was named as the new assistant gen- eral manager.

Mr. Garate joined the Todd organization at its New Orleans yard in 1940. He was trans- ferred to Todd's central estimating department in New York in 1945. In 1949, he was trans- ferred to the Brooklyn Division, becoming general manager in 1961. He has had long experience in all phases of shipyard work, in- cluding production, engineering, and estima- ting. Before joining Todd, he held supervisory positions in Johnson Iron Works of New Or- leans.

Mr. Shean began his Todd career at the company's San Francisco yard in 1948. He held a number of administrative and management posts before his appointment as general man- ager in 1958. Mr. Shean was formerly assistant to the commander of the San Francisco Naval

Shipyard.

Mr. Kochanczyk, the new Brooklyn general manager, began with that division in 1944. He is a graduate of Webb Institute of Naval Ar- chitecture and has held various technical and engineering positions at the yard prior to reaching his present post as assistant general manager in 1961.

Mr. Martin was educated at Stevens Insti- tute of Technology. He started with the com- pany in 1938. His present responsibilities in- clude supervision of the Brooklyn yard's major ship conversion contracts. 28 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News