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Paul R. Tregurtha

Elected Treasurer Of

Moore And McCormack

Paul R. Tregurtha

Paul R. Tregurtha has been elect- ed treasurer and a member of the board of directors of Moore and

McCormack Co., Inc., it was an- nounced by James R. Barker, chair- man.

Mr. Tregurtha is vice president, finance, of Moore and McCormack

Co., Inc., and its subsidiary, Moore-

McCormack Lines, Incorporated.

He was formerly vice president and controller of Brown and Sharpe

Manufacturing Company in Prov- idence, R.I. He joined Double A

Products Company, a subsidiary of

Brown and Sharpe, in 1963, after graduating from Harvard Gradu- ate School of Business Administra- tion where he was a Baker Scholar.

Mr. Tregurtha received a bache- lor's degree in mechanical engi- neering from Cornell University,

Ithaca, N.Y., in 1958, subsequent to which he served in the U.S. Air

Force.

American Mail Line

Orders $5.4 Million

In Containers/Chassis

Orders totaling more than $5.4 million for construction of 1,800 con- tainers and 85 chassis have been an- nounced by American Mail Line,

Seattle-headquartered steamship com- pany.

The equipment is part of the com- pany's program to introduce a direct all-container service between the Pa- cific Northwest and Japan. In addi- tion to containers and related shore- side equipment, AML is entering into service on its trans-Pacific trade route four C6 full containerships.

The first such vessel, S/S Washington

Mail, inaugurated the new service with a sailing on Sunday, October 24.

Three other ships are expected to en- ter service during 1972.

Included in the contracts is the purchase of 1,500 8-foot by 9-foot by 40-foot dry containers which are being assembled by Hussmann North- west of Seattle, with panels being produced by Cortec of Auburn, Wash.

Leckenby Company, Seattle, will pro- vide the steel fabrication.

In addition, American Mail Line is purchasing 150 8-foot by 8-foot 6-inch by 20-foot flat rack containers from Hussmann and a like amount from Busby, Inc., of Ellensburg,

Wash.

Two Spokane, Wash., firms are producing the chassis on which the containers ride, the first of which was delivered recently. These include 55 twenty-foot chassis from the Comet

Corporation and 30 forty-foot chassis from the Brown Trailer Division of the Clark Equipment Company.

According to R.D. Bush, AML vice president, the 40-foot containers are a special design being produced for American Mail Line with an in- terior capacity of 2,565 cubic feet, 165 cubic feet more than the tradi- tional 8-foot by 8-foot 6-inch by 40- footers. "This extra space," he stated, "qualifies many cargoes for lower in- land freight rates. In addition, the extra cube allows additional com- modities to be shipped intermodal."

Intermodal cargoes are those which are transported from point of origin to point of destination intact through various modes of transportation with- out restuffing.

In addition to the $5.4 million in equipment, American Mail Line pur- chased through Hussmann Northwest 500 containers last year and 1,477 containers in 1968-69, all in the 20- foot length.

Florida Motorships

Appoints J.E. Roberts

John E. Roberts, who has been in steamship agency work in Florida and the Virgin Islands for the past 12 years, has been named general manager of Florida Motorship Corp.,

Port Everglades, Fla.

The company is agent for Walle- nius Caribbean Line, which has a roll-on/roll-off service to the Virgin

Islands, Netherlands Antilles, and

Panama.

Serving the

Gulf Coast

Since 1880

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