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Sumitomo Launches

Passenger/V ehicle Ferry —Lays Keel For Another

Sumitomo Shipbuilding & Ma- chinery Co., Ltd., recently launch- ed the M/V Central No. 2, a 5,900- gt long haul passenger/vehicle ferry for Central Ferry Co., Ltd., at its Uraga shipbuilding yard in

Yokosuka. Miss Masako Iuye, daughter of Yuroh Iuye, president of Central Ferry, served as sponsor during the christening.

Due to the overcrowded situa- tion of road traffic, the Central No. 2 can transport many cars faster and safer over a long distance.

The vessel is capable of transport- ing 560 passengers and can load about 130 eight-ton capacity trucks on board by the RO-RO system.

The ferry has a length between perpendiculars of 387 feet, a mold- ed breadth of 72 feet and a molded depth of 41 feet. She is powered by two Kawasaki-MAN V7V 40-54 diesels, each with a maximum con- tinuous rating of 7,500 hp at 225 rpm. The vessel is equipped with controllable pitch propellers, side thruster and fin stabilizers.

Uoon completion, which is sched- uled for the end of next month, the

Central No. 2 will sail between

Tokyo and Kobe in 20 hours with a service speed of 19.5 knots.

Sumitomo also laid the keel for another passenger/vehicle ferry for

Central Ferry Co., Ltd., on Febru- ary 25, the date of launching for her sistership, the Central No. 2.

Port Of Felixstowe

Reports Increase In

Container Tonnage

The United Kingdom port of

Felixstowe reported that during 1970 the port handled 2,259,981 tons of cargo, exceeding the two-million-ton mark for the first time in its history.

This was an increase of 272,511 tons over 1969.

Of the 1970 total, 1,440,014 tons were imports and 819,967 tons were exports. The number of containers handled during the year amounted to 93,099, an increase of 19,066 over the previous year.

Shipbuilders Council Marks Fiftieth Anniversary —Edwin M. Hood Reelected Board Chairman

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Edwin M. Hood was reelected chairman of the board of directors of the Shipbuilders Council of

America at the organization's 50th

Annual Meeting, held on March 3 in Washington, D.C. Mr. Hood will continue to serve as president and chief executive officer of the

Council, a position he has held for the past 10 years.

Edwin M. Hood

In his annual report to the mem- bership Mr. Hood stated: "The

U.S. shipyard industry experienced a somewhat 'slow track' during the first year of the 1970 decade, with every expectation that the pace of activity will substantially acceler- ate in 1971 and thereafter."

Mr. Hood said that shipbuilding in the national scheme of things is now receiving the "bright spot- light of public and Government at- tention. The Congress has deplored the infirmities of age and inade- quacy which are ascribed to U.S. sea power" wherein nearly three quarters of the American merchant marine and about half of the U.S.

Navy fleet is composed of ships 20 years of age or older. Deliveries of new ships have not been suffi- cient to overcome the high degree of obsolescence which has afflicted our Navy and maritime fleets, but "obsolescence is only part of the picture," he said. "The continuing demands on U.S. naval forces throughout the world, the sharp decline in the volume of cargoes carried by American-flag shipping, rapid technological progress in the

U.S. as well as abroad, Russia's ex- panding presence on the oceans, the need for modern ships—these reasons, and more," he stated, "have underscored the urgency of a well-structured rational and co- ordinated shipbuilding program. "All signs continue to point to a total shipbuilding market for

American shipyards and American ship component manufacturers in the 1970 decade of more than $50 billion," Mr. Hood noted. He said the proposed 300 merchant ships under the 1970 Merchant Marine

Act valued at $6-billion, the esti- mate of up to $5-billion for naval ship construction annually to mod- ernize the Navy, an unspecified number of deepwater tankers for the movement of North Slope crude oil from Alaska to domestic re- fineries, are major ship construc- tion programs in the 1970s.

These prospects, however, are "in the offing," he said, adding that the initial impact of the Nixon maritime program will not be felt in the shipyards antil mid-1972, or perhaps later; and for the next five years, a large share of funds for naval ship construction will be de- voted to programs now underway, limiting "it would seem" new bid- ding opportunities.

Mr. Hood said ship repair work in 1970 decreased, and shipyard employment declined as old naval and merchant ships were retrieved.

He said unused capacity for ship- building and repair work was avail- able in all sections of the country and shipyards are "energetically soliciting additonal shipbuilding, ship repairing and conversion con- tracts. The shipyard industry of the United States thus faces the enigma of a near-term debility and a long-term euphoria. 'Getting from here to there' will not be without problems, but shipyard managements have not abandoned the unprecedented sense of opti- mism which ushered in the 1970 decade," Mr. Hood stated.

The following industry officials were elected as regional vice presi- dents of the Shipbuilders Council in the annual election: East Coast —John L. Roper II, Norfolk Ship- building and Dry Dock Co.; West

Coast—John V. Banks, National

Steel and Shipbuilding Co.; Gulf

Coast—Otho H. Haunschild, Lev- ingston Shipbuilding Co.; Great

Lakes — Thomas J. Defoe, Defoe

Shipbuilding Company. Mrs. Bev- erly C. Kendall and Edward P.

Ruddy were reelected treasurer and secretary of the Council, re- spectively.

At the luncheon following the board meeting of the Council, the

Honorable Helen Delich Bentley,

Chairman of the Maritime Com- mission, spoke to Council members and guests.

MATSON CITED: The award to Matson

Navigation Company as "Industrial Engi- neering Company of the Year" is present- ed to Matson's president Malcolm H. Blais- dell, left, by Ross W. Hanson of the

American Institute of Industrial Engineers,

San Francisco-Oakland Chapter. The award cites industrial engineering excellence and outstanding support of principles of the

American Institute of Industrial Engineer- ing for 1970.

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