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Zim Container Service

Appoints Robert Partos

The appointment of Robert G.

Partos as director of interline op- erations for Zim Container Service has been announced by Jeffrey M.

Driesen, the line's senior vice presi- dent for marketing and sales.

A veteran of 18 years in the transportation held, six of them in container operations, Mr. Partos will be responsible for coordinat- ing Zim's inland transportation rates and operations.

Before joining Zim Container

Service, Mr. Partos had been gen- eral manager, government services, for United States Lines, Inc. He has also served as traffic manager for Pride Transportation and as- sistant general sales manager for

Associated Transport, Inc. In addi- tion to spending two years in the

Far East in container operations, he has served with the U.S. Army in Korea.

A native New Yorker, Mr. Partos, who attended the City College of

New York and the Academy of

Advanced Traffic, is a past presi- dent of the Steamship Operators

Intermodal Committee.

Sweden's transportation, manufac- turing, marine and other indus- tries.

In addition to its marketing ac- tivities, Texaco Oil A.B. owns a 19.9 percent interest in Skandinavi- ska Raffinaderi Aktiebolaget Scan- raff, a Swedish corporation current- ly engaged in constructing a re- finery and related facilities on the

Lyse Peninsula on the western coast of Sweden. The refinery is scheduled for completion in 1974, and will have an initial processing capacity of at least 140,000 barrels of crude oil per day, with special capabilities to manufacture low- sulfur fuels and low-lead gasolines.

The Texaco Sweden could carry enough crude oil in a single voy- age to provide for the operating needs of a 140,000-barrel-a-day re- finery for approximately two weeks.

The new Texaco tanker will be equipped with the latest electronic navigational aids, including a so- nar/doppler system which is de- signed to assist docking operations.

Texaco has been an industry lead- er in the installation of this system on all its owned mammoth tankers.

The Texaco Sweden is also fitted with special tanks for the onboard retention of oil residues. This pro- cedure is required on all Texaco tankers in order to maintain the company's policy of prohibiting the discharge of oil at sea.

PROTECTIVE

STEEL DOME

INSULATION-

Huge Texaco Tanker

Built By Kockums

Christened At Malmo

The Texaco Sweden, a 255,250- deadweight-ton mammoth tanker, was christened at Malmo, Sweden, on December 7, 1972, in ceremonies at Kockums Mekaniska Verkstads

A.B. Shipyard. Sponsor of the very large crude carrier (VLCC) was

Mrs. R. Howard Wilson, wife of the senior vice president of Tex- aco Inc. for worldwide refining and supply and distribution, of New

York City.

With a deck area large enough to accommodate five regulation- sized ice hockey rinks, the Texaco

Sweden is one of the largest ves- sels in Texaeo's international fleets.

She has an overall length of 1,116 feet, a beam of 170 feet, and a max- imum draft of 66 feet. Standard service speed of the new tanker will be 15.5 knots.

The Texaco Sweden is the larg- est tanker ever built for Texaco in a Swedish yard. When delivered, she will be the ninth mammoth tanker owned by Texaco Overseas

Tankship Ltd., London. The new vessel will join 30 other mammoth tankers, all over 200,000 dead- weight tons, which are owned and operated by Texaeo's international fleets. The aggregate capacity of the 31 such vessels will total ap- proximately 7.1-million deadweight tons.

The name of Texaeo's newest tanker commemorates Texaeo's 52 years of providing petroleum prod- ucts to Sweden. Today, Texaco Oil

Aktiebolag, a wholly owned Swed- ish subsidiary of Texaco Inc., op- erates a nationwide network of re- tail outlets serving Sweden's mo- toring public. The company also supplies fuels and lubricants to -9% NICKEL STEEL

CARGO TANK

DRIP TRAY

SPRAY SHIELD-

INSULATION

WATER BALLAST

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