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Seatrain Container Division

Moves Into New Quarters

Seatrain Lines' Container Division has moved into its new corporate headquarters at Port

Seatrain in Weehawken, N.J. One of the larg- est private container facilities in the world,

Port Seatrain is located just across the river from 42nd Street, New York City, next to the

Lincoln Tunnel.

The new office building is the heart of a revolutionary concept in container movement and control. The building's 60,000-square-foot office complex houses an electronically aug- mented container control system, which in- sures on-time delivery of all container move- ments. Trucks entering or leaving the yard pass through one of the seven bays under the building. All pertinent information is then punched into an electronic control system for instant display.

Seatrain has regular weekly sailings to Eu- rope and twice-weekly sailings to Puerto Rico from Port Seatrain. By mid-April, Seatrain's giant new fast containership, the G.T.S. Euro- liner, will berth at Port Seatrain, to be follow- ed by three sister ships in the near future.

The 70-acre site has a two-berth finger pier with more than 1,800 feet of docking area which juts out into the Hudson River, and is capable of berthing two large modern contain- erships at the same time. Ultimately, three oth- er piers could be constructed on the site. The present pier's 120-foot width readily permits a tractor-trailer combination to turn without backing up. Three double-ended sliding boom gantrys, two in operation and one under con- struction, can operate simultaneously. Each is capable of lifting 45 tons.

Located in the heart of the New York Port trucking area, Port Seatrain permits quick ac- cess to all rail and major highways.

New Boat Handling System

Uses Pushbutton From Bridge

To Launch Boat In 25 Seconds

A 5,500-pound pilot launch is shown suspended on a single gantline from the "wishbone davit" aboard the

New Jersey.

The Sandy Hook Pilots' Association has in- stalled a "wishbone davit" automatic boat han- dling system on the pilot boat New Jersey.

With this davit, the mate on the bridge is able to launch or retrieve a pilot launch in 25 seconds by merely depressing one button.

The system employs a new type hydraulic davit which operates through a controlled sequence. The davit lifts a 24-foot self-balanc- ing aluminum pilot launch, weighing 5,500 pounds, on a single gantline.

Basic design for the system was done by the pilot's marine superintendent, Capt. Allen Pe- ters. Marine Safety Equipment Corporation of

Farmingdale, N.J., provided all engineering services, constructed the davit, and provided all hydraulic and electric controls. Installation on board the New Jersey was done by Reynolds

Shipyard, Rosebank, Staten Island, N.Y. Mon-

Ark Boat Company of Monticello, Ark., built the launch to the pilot's specifications. Power is a GM 353 diesel driving through a Volvo outdrive. Service speed of the launch is 18.5 knots. The self-balancing device in the launch was fabricated and installed by the pilot's own personnel.

Jurong Yard To Expand

Singapore Dock To Handle 300,000-Dwt Vessels

Jurong Shipyard Limited (JSL), Singapore, recently decided to expand its No. 2 repair dock from an existing 100,000-dwt to a 300,000- dwt capacity to meet the increasing demand for repairing large vessels.

According to the expansion plan, the No. 2 dock (approximately 852-feet long, 184-feet wide and 40-feet deep) will be enlarged about 328 feet in length to about 1,180 feet. Construc- tion will be started in July this year, with com- pletion scheduled for March 1972. Construc- tion costs will be approximately $7-million.

The Jurong Shipyard, which was established in 1963 as a joint venture between Japan's IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co.,

Ltd.) and the Singapore Government, has a 90,000-dwt dock, a 100,000-dwt dock, and a 2,500-dwt floating dock, as main ship repairing facilities. Located near one of the major sea- ports of the world, it has repaired ships of many nations, including the United Kingdom, the United States, West Germany, the Nether- lands, Norway, Sweden, Hong Kong, and Ja- pan.

Recently, the major oil companies of the world have constructed large-scale oil refin- eries in the Southeast Asia area around Singa- pore, and large tankers of the 200,000-ton class, which call at the port, have increased in num- ber. The dock expansion was planned in antici- pation of orders for repairing these large ves- sels.

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