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Halter Marine Services Delivers 140-Ft. Tug Esteff S. De Felice

The new tug, designed primarily for work with the off- shore industry, has a fuel oil capacity of 170,000 gallons for long-range and extended operations.

The Esteff S. De Felice, a 140-foot ocean tug designed and built for offshore oil field operations, has been delivered by Halter Marine Services, Inc.,

New Orleans, La., to De Felice Marine Contrac- tors, Metairie, La. The new tug was launched by two floating cranes that lifted the 400-ton vessel from its building ways into the water at the Halter

Marine shipyards in eastern New Orleans. This is one of the largest and heaviest vessels to be launched in this manner.

The Esteff S. De Felice has an overall length of 140 feet, a beam of 34 feet, and a designed draft of 14 feet. Gross tonnage is under 200.

The tug is powered by two EMD 16-645-E2 diesel engines with five sets of air-controls—three in the wheelhouse and one set for each of two stern stations. The tug is equipped with Falk re- duction gears, two Waukesha 100-kw generators and a Markey TDSD 28 double drum winch with remote controls located at the two aft steering stations. Stainless steel propeller shafts swing two 108-inch four-bladed stainless steel propellers.

B.F. Goodrich cutless bearings are used. The steering power units are two Sperry Cub pumps with 10 horsepower motors. Other equipment a- boarcl the Esteff S. De Felice includes Barnes water pressure set, two Quincy air compressors, a Markey anchor windlass, and a Douglas Water- maker D-10 fresh water maker.

Electronic equipment installed aboard the tug includes a Raytheon single sideband radio, Fatho- meter and radiotelephone, two RCA radars, a

Bendix direction finder, and a Konel Loran DX navigator.

Accommodations are provided for a crew of eight men. Staterooms for an additional eight persons are also provided for use by divers, salvage mas- ter, etc.

The all-electric galley is equipped with stainless steel reefers and has a large walk-in freezer for provisions on extended voyages. The mess room is adjacent to the galley and an officers' lounge is located on the 01 level. All accommodations are air-conditioned.

Hull construction is heavier than normal for a vessel of this type. Shell plating forward is 54- inch thick and the reinforced bow is capable of working in ice. The stern is heavily fendered in way of the stern rollers to provide protection from anchor buoys when working with mooring anchors.

Careful attention was given to the design of the stern in order to prevent cable fouling the pro- pellers or rudders when handling anchors.

The Esteff S. De Felice is the second tug built for the De Felice Company by Halter Marine

Services and joins the M.T. Betty G., which was delivered last year. Both tugs were primarily de- signed for work with the offshore industry and have been working with pipe-laying and derrick barges. The Esteff S. De Felice is also equipped for long-distance ocean towing.

Containerized Cargo Up 60%

In East Coast No. America And

Australia/New Zealand Trade

A dramatic shift toward containerization as a method of cargo handling has occurred in the past 18 months in the trade between the East Coast of

North America and Australia-New Zealand, ac- cording to figures recently released by Associated

Container Transportation, a major container ship- ping firm operating in the trade. "Since January 1970, the movement of cargo by containers has jumped nearly 60 percent—from under 10 percent of the total cargo to over 70 per- cent," revealed Donald S. Chakas, executive vice president of ACT. "Total value of cargo exchanged between North America and Australia-New Zea- land is over $2.47 billion. The United States alone accounts for more than $2.07 billion of this amount."

R. Keith Scott, senior Australian trade com- missioner in the United States pointed out that the U.S. has already surpassed Great Britain as

Australia's prime supplier of goods, and has be- come the second most important market for his country after Japan. U.S. exports to Australia totaled some $1.16 billion worth of goods in 1970- 71, an increase of about $81 million over 1969-70.

One of the major reasons behind the shift to- ward containerization has been the move by the major lines serving the East Coast of North

America and the South Pacific to build completely new containerships for the trade. ACT, for exam- ple, will have five giant 25,000-ton cellular con- tainerships operating in the trade by 1972. Two of these, ACT 3 and ACT 4, went into service in September. "There has been increasing recognition by ship- pers at both ends of the trade of the economies inherent in containerization and the system of distribution it makes possible," said Mr. Chakas. "As a result, we look for the amount of contain- erized cargo to increase at a rate of approximately 5 percent a year for the foreseeable future."

Anchor windlasses, mooring- and cargo winches, steam or electro-hydro-dynamically driven for tankers, bulkcarriers and other ships of more than 30.000 tdw.

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