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Avondale Receives $85 Million Contract

To Build LASH/Containerships For Delta 'Container Way/ Read At Pacific NW Section,

Points Up Changes In Cargo Handling Systems

Model of Delta Line's LASH/Contoiner vessel

Contracts totaling approximate- ly $85 million were signed in

Washington, D.C., on May 19 for the construction of three combina- tion LASH/Container vessels for

Delta Steamship Lines, pioneer

New Orleans, La., based owner and operator of a fleet of Ameri- can-flag vessels.

The construction of these three ships represents the largest single shipbuilding contract—by far—in

Delta Line's 52-year history and is the first new shipbuilding con- tract executed since the enactment of the 1970 Merchant Marine Act.

The three container/barge-car- rying vessels are to be built by

Avondale Shipyards at New Or- leans, with delivery scheduled for

April 15, 1973; July 15, 1973 and

September 30, 1973.

Signing of the contracts took place at ceremonies in the office of Assistant Secretary of Com- merce and Maritime Administrator

Andrew E. Gibson. Principals who signed the contracts were Mr. Gib- son, for the Maritime Administra- tion, Delta president Capt. J.W.

Clark, for the owners, and Avon-

Pollution Control

Coating Described

In Carboline Guide

The Carboline Company of St.

Louis, Mo., announces the release of a new 114-page Protective Coating

Guide for Pollution Control Facili- ties and Equipment.

Complete in all details, this guide gives protective coating system rec- ommendations for shop and field priming, immersion and non-immer- sion service, steel and concrete sur- faces, floors, etc. Also included are recommendations for lining potable water tanks.

A section of the guide deals with typical protective coating specifica- tions for pollution control facilities.

It also contains a chart showing color coding for piping identification. Test report extracts, estimated field serv- ice life of coating systems, important points to consider when selecting pro- tective coatings and physical and chemical properties of each coating are included.

This is an outstanding reference guide for maintenance and plant en- gineers, engineering design companies dale president H. Zac Carter, for the builders. Other dignitaries at- tending the contract-signing cere- monies included U.S. Senator Rus- sell B. Long (D-La.), and Jerome

L. Goldman, president of Friede and Goldman, Inc., naval archi- tects who developed the LASH design.

Principal characteristics of this new Delta LASH-type vessel are: length overall, 845 feet; beam molded, 100 feet, and total dis- placement of 38,000 tons at 28 feet 0 indhes design draft. The vessel's steam turbine propulsion system will provide a service speed of 22 knots. Each vessel will be capable of carrying a maximum of 74 barges or, alternatively, a maxi- mum of 1,740 containers, or a com- bination of the barges and contain- ers in varying numbers as required.

Initially, Delta plans to carry ap- proximately 288 containers, in- cluding refrigerated units. The de- sign provides for a highly flexible arrangement for bulk liquids, dry bulk cargoes, refrigerated cargoes, heavy lifts, etc. and all personnel involved with corro- sion prevention of pollution control facilities and equipment.

This guide is available from Car- boline Company, 328 Hanley In- dustrial Court, St. Louis, Mo. 63144. Carboline develops and markets a complete line of corro- sion resistant protective coatings, tank linings, floor coatings, water- proofing materials, adhesives, in- dustrial finishes and paints.

States Steamship

Names Capt. Mead

And J.S. Butler

The appointment of Capt. Paul

S. Mead as vice president has been announced by J.R. Dant, president of States Steamship Company.

Captain Mead joined States Line in June 1968 as general traffic manager and most recently was as- sistant vice president, special projects.

Mr. Dant also announced that

J.S. Butler has been elected assist- ant vice president and general sales manager of States Steamship Com- pany.

Speakers and officers pictured at the Sands Motor Hotel in Vancouver, left to right standing are: George Salisbury, secretary-treasurer; Robert McHaffy, naval architect and surveyor,* Lou D. Chirillo, vice chairman,* Gene Frampton, assistant secretary-treas- urer; Fred Skinner, Island Tug and Barge. Seated left to right are: George Poyne, who authored and presented a paper entitled "Container Way"; George Fryatt, chairman,

British Columbia Area, and Pete Sias, chairman, Pacific Northwest Section.

Traditional warm regards were exchanged between members and guests from Seattle and Bremer- ton, Wash., and Victoria and Van- couver, British Columbia, at the regular meeting of the Pacific

Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine

Engineers, held in Vancouver on

April 23, 1971.

George Payne, general manager of Empire Stevedoring Company,

Vancouver, B.C., authored and pre- sented a paper entitled "Container

Way" which expounded on how terminal handling systems are be- coming more and more highly mechanized with new systems like intermodal service via barge car- riers, roll-on/roll-off traffic and container service.

Most widely accepted of the car- go handling systems are container transportation and goods shipped in containers. Even those which are packed and unpacked at the terminals arrive at their destina- tion with less damage, theft and pilferage.

Mr. Payne concluded his paper by mentioning the huge variety of goods being shipped in con- tainers. It was interesting to note that grain, once entirely packaged in bags when shipped in containers, is now being shipped in bulk. " WHAT AW*??* YcW //V//VAT A 7V6- W/LL

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