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CONOCO Appoints

Wilfred M. Kluss

To Transportation Post

Wilfred M. Kluss

Wilfred M. Kluss has been ap- pointed president of World Wide

Transport, Inc., and manager, ma- rine department, transportation and supplies for the Eastern Hemi- sphere Petroleum Division of Con- tinental Oil Company, New York,

N.Y., it was announced by J.B.

Cecil, vice president of transpor- tation and supplies. World Wide

Transport is an affiliate of Conti- nental.

During his 16-year tenure with a major oil company prior to join- ing Conoco, Mr. Kluss held posi- tions in marine operations and co- ordination, including management responsibility for the company's international tanker fleet. He was also associated with the company's

Middle East affairs department for a period of four years. Before en- tering the petroleum industry, Mr.

Kluss was operations officer in the

Asia and Middle East department of the World Bank, a statistician with Morgan Stanley & Co., and overseas development specialist for the Economic Cooperation Ad- ministration in Paris.

Born in Waterloo, Iowa, he was graduated from Harvard in 1942, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

While attending Harvard Business

School in 1946, he was selected as an American Rhodes Scholar. He attended New College, Oxford, un- til 1949 and received B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics and politics.

During World War II, Mr. Kluss served in the U.S. Navy with the

Fast Carrier Task Force. He re- tired as a lieutenant commander. $1.8 Million Contract

To Allied Shipbuilders

For Newsprint Barge

It has been announced that Allied

Shipbuilders Limited of North Van- couver, British Columbia, has been awarded a $1.8-million contract by

MacMillan Bloedel, Limited, for the construction of a 363-foot-long steel barge. The vessel, with a 7,200-ton newsprint capacity, will enter service transporting newsprint from the Mac-

Millan Rothesay Limited mill at Saint

John, New Brunswick, to the East

Coast of the United States. MacMil- lan Bloedel holds the majority inter- est in the MacMillan Rothesay news- print mill in Saint John.

Allied Shipbuilders is presently building a 53-foot twin-screw tug for Columbia Cellulose.

Mobil To Jumboize 100,000-Dwt Tankers

The largest tanker jumboizing job ever undertaken will be performed for Mobil Shipping and Transporta- tion Company when two 100,000-ton vessels are each increased in size to approximately 150,000 deadweight tons at the Mitsubishi Heavy Indus- tries yard in Yokohama, Japan.

Under a contract signed between

Mobil and Mitsubishi, work on the

Mobil Astral will begin in March 1973 and the vessel will rejoin the company's fleet the following Au- gust. Work on the Astral's sister ship, the Mobil Daylight, will start in September 1973 and the vessel will rejoin the fleet in February 1974.

The reconstructed vessels will each be 1,053 feet in overall length, with a breadth of 127 feet, a depth of 74 feet, and an operating draft of 57 feet. They will carry crude oil in worldwide trade.

A smaller vessel, the Australian

Progress, will also be jumboized un- der the same contract, and will be redelivered to Mobil in June 1972.

The vessel, presently a 15,600 ton- ner, will be increased in size to 22,- 800 tons. Its new length will be 565 feet, with a breadth of 75 feet, a depth of 42 feet and its draft will be 31 feet. The vessel will carry petroleum products in oceangoing service.

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