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American Ship To Build 680-Ft. Self-Unloader

Costing $13 Million

The American Ship Building

Company, Cleveland, Ohio, has re- ceived a contract from American

Steamship Co. of Buffalo, N.Y., for construction of a new 680-foot self- unloader for American Steamship's

Boland & Cornelius Great Lakes fleet.

Announcement of the approxi- mately $13 million contract was made jointly by George M. Stein- brenner III, chairman and chief executive officer of American Ship;

C.T. Shen, chief executive officer; and Adam E. Cornelius, president of American Steamship.

The new vessel will have a beam of 78 feet and a rating of 26,000 deadweight tons. She will be ca- pable of unloading 6,000 tons per hour through a single conveyor running the length of the ship and a 250-foot aft-pivoted deck boom.

The new self-unloader will be built in American Ship's Toledo,

Ohio, yard, with delivery sched- uled for the opening of the 1973

Great Lakes navigation season.

American Steamship recently awarded a similar contract for a 680-foot self-unloader to Manito- woc Shipbuilding, Inc., Manito- woc, Wis.

These new vessels are in addi- tion to the two 630-foot upriver type self-unloaders presently be- ing built by American Ship for use in hauling taconite pellets for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.

Matson Navigation

Names R.J. Pfeiffer

Executive Vice Pres.

Robert J. Pfeiffer

Robert J. Pfeiffer has been named executive vice president of Matson

Navigation Company by the com- pany's board of directors, it was announced by Malcolm H. Blais- dell, president.

Mr. Pfeiffer has been senior vice president, operations since last

June. Prior to that, he had been vice president in charge of Mat- son's Far East operations and president of Matson Terminals, Inc.

He is presently chairman of the board of Matson Terminals, Inc.

He has been associated with the maritime industry since 1937, when he joined Inter-Island Steam Navi- gation Company, Ltd., in Honolulu.

Mr. Pfeiffer was president of the

United States National Committee of the International Cargo Hand- ling Coordination Association, Inc., from 1963 to 1968.

Stal-Laval, Inc.

U.S. Representative

For Thrige-Nakskov

Announcement has been made in

Denmark of the merger of The

Thomas B. Thrige Co. and Nakskov

Machine Works Ltd. to form a new combination to be known as Thrige-

Nakskov Machine Works Ltd.

The new company will manufac- ture Thrige deck machinery, with special emphasis on the electro-hy- draulic units utilizing high torque hydraulic motors and steam units equipped with the Nakskov steam engine. Electric deck units with

ASEA solid state or Ward Leonard

Controls and ASEA electric motors and disc brakes will continue to be supplied and serviced.

The Thrige-Nakskov units feature twin drums with separate reeling de- vices for synthetic mooring lines and split drums for steel ropes.

The Thrige-Nakskov Machine

Works Ltd. will also produce remote controlled valves for bilge, ballast and cargo pumping and spreaders for containers of any size.

All Thrige-Nakskov equipment will be handled in the U.S. through Stal-

Laval, Inc., 400 Executive Boulevard,

Elmsford, N.Y. 10523. A new capa- bility brochure on the Thrige-Naks- kov products is available on request. ' Our new

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