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Gage Named Director

Int'l Activities Office

Established By MarAd

Richard J. Gage, former chair- man of the Puerto Rico Ocean

Service Association, has been named Director of the newly es- tablished Office of International

Activities in the Maritime Admin- istration, A.E. Gibson, Assistant

Secretary of Commerce for Mari- time Affairs, announced.

A graduate of the University of

Toronto, Mr. Gage received his law degree from Cornell Law School.

He began his professional career in 1955 as an attorney in the Anti- trust Division of the U.S. Depart- ment of Justice. For three years he was an attorney with the Federal

Maritime Board, the predecessor of both the Federal Maritime Com- mission and the Maritime Admin- istration. In 1959, he assumed the chairmanship of the New York

Terminal Conference, which repre- sents 27 stevedore and steamship companies. Five years later, he be- came chairman of the North At- lantic United Kingdom Freight

Conference, which represents 12 steamship companies in the United

Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and the United States. From 1968 to 1969, Mr. Gage was the Maritime

Transportation Officer in the Office of International Transportation,

U.S. Department erf Transporta- tion. "Mr. Gage's extensive back- ground in maritime law and inter- national transportation will be in- valuable to increasing the Mari- time Administration's and ship- ping industry's participation in in- ternational activities that, directly or indirectly, have a significant im- pact on the well-being of the

American merchant marine," Mr.

Gibson said in making the an- nouncement.

As Director of the Office of In- ternational Activities, Mr. Gage will be working closely with such organizations as the International

Maritime Consultative Organiza- tion and the United Nation's Con- ference on Trade and Develop- ment. He will also present this agency's point of view should prob- lems arise with foreign govern- ments over maritime matters. Mr.

Gibson made clear that this office will not duplicate the functions of other Maritime Administration of- fices or the international functions performed by other Government agencies.

Portugal To Build

Fleet Of Giant Tankers

Portugal plans to build a fleet of giant tankers within the next four years to supply its network of oil refineries now being built.

The Portuguese tanker company

Soponata said it has already placed orders for two 136,000-ton tankers at Sweden's Eriksberg shipyards, and a contract for a third one is being ne- gotiated. It said the order of a fourth 136,000-ton tanker was placed last year with Kawasaki Shipyards of

Japan. All four will be delivered by 1974.

Soponata said it plans to order at least two 300,000-ton tankers to be delivered by 1975 to meet the increas- ing demand of oil in Portugal at the minimum cost through the route around the Cape. These tankers will transport oil for the giant southern refinery projected for the Port of

Sines, as well as refineries in Setubal and near Oporto.

MINI SPONSOR: Pretty little Nicole De-

Felice, eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Lloyd DeFelice of New Orleans, holds a bouquet of flowers presented her as sponsor of an oceangoing vessel, the Luke

Z. DeFelice, background, christened re- cently at McDermott Shipyard in Morgan

City, La. Built for DeFelice Marine Con- tractors Inc., the 120-foot twin-screw tug has a rating of 3,000 horsepower and joins a fleet of 10 tugs owned and operated by the company. 27 October 1, 1971

You're standing in the "Descartes"-newest of 20 mammoth LNG tankers that will have innards of nickel alloys.

The 310,000-bbl. "Descartes," with her flexible waffle membranes of Type 304L stain- less steel designed by Technigaz/Gazocean, is now nearing completion at St. Nazaire, France.

When she's finished, she'll be the third in a whole new generation of larger-sized LNG tankers scheduled for service by 1976.

All 20 of the bigger tankers ordered to date have capacities in the 300,000 bbl. to 750,000 bbl. range.

And all 20 ships, like many of today's smaller LNG tankers, will have cryogenic piping, pumps, and inner tanks of nickel alloys—alloys designed and proved to be tough and ductile at cryogenic temperatures, highly resistant to corrosive saltwater atmospheres, and easily fabricated and welded.

The "Descartes" has six tanks of Type 304L stainless in the flexible waffle membrane structure, the Gazocean design being used for nine of the larger LNG tankers.

For your own LNG tanker, of course, you could also choose either 9% nickel steel or

Invar* 36% nickel-iron alloy.

It all depends on the design you prefer for your ship.

For more details on nickel alloys for cryogenic service, write Dept. MR-1071,

The International Nickel Company, Inc.,

One New York Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004.

INTERNATIONAL NICKEL in Canada, The International Nickel Company of Canada,

Limited, P.O. Box 44, Toronto-Dominion Centre, Toronto 111,

Ontario. In England, International Nickel Limited, Thames House,

Millbank, London SW1 P4QF, England. *A Registered Trademark of Soci6t§ Creusot-Loire (IMPHY)