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$18.7-Million Expansion

For Port Of Felixstowe

The 28th Freightliner Terminal to be completed in Britain's network of purpose-built road rail container ter- minals has been officially opened at the South East England Port of

Felixstowe.

The opening of the £200,000 (ap- proximately $470,000) terminal com- pletes the first phase of an £8-million (about $18.7 million) expansion pro- gram planned for the port, which will include new roll - on / roll-off berths, additional docks for general cargo handling, development of oil and chemical storage and handling facilities, and a 700-foot extension to the present container dock.

The new terminal is less than 300 yards from the port's main deepsea container berths, which handle traf- fic for more than 50 percent of op- erators on the North Atlantic trade, as well as many European lines.

By 1975, Felixstowe, which han- dled 100,000 containers in the past 12 months, is expected to be hand- ling twice its present annual tonnage of cargo and containers, bringing throughput up to five-million tons a year. Dock officials expect that

Common Market entry will create an additonal one-million tons through- put.

Private interests and commercial companies are investing £12 million (about $28 million) in new ware- housing and groupage facilities, code stores, guarded truck parking areas and a drivers' motel, bringing total investment in the port and associated enterprises to more than £30 million (approximately $70 million) since 1960.

Daily freightliner trains connect the port with Birmingham, Glasgow,

London, Manchester and all other major industrial areas of the U.K., including Northern Ireland and Eire via the "landbridge" at Holyhead.

John Sansing Joins

Mainstream Shipyards

John W. Sansing

B.E. Williamson, president of

Mainstream Shipyards & 'Supply,

Inc., Greenville, Miss., has an- nounced that John W. Sansing has joined the organization as general •manager of the shipyard division.

Mr. Sansing has 'been employed hy Gulfport Shipbuilding Corp.,

Port Arthur, Texas, for the past eight years, and for the last three years was manager of marine re- pairs for Gulfport. Previous to his association with Gulfport, he was marine chemist with the Ingalls

Shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss, for six years.

He is a native of Union, Miss., attended the University of Missis- sippi, and is a member of The Pro- peller -Club, the Marine Chemist

Association, and the American In- dustrial Hygiene Association.

In conjunction with Mr. Sansing's appointment, Mainstream Ship will start construction of a gas-free and waste disposal plant to serve the marine industry. This new facility will be located at Mile 534 AHP on the Lower Mississippi River, with facilities to clean, gas-free, and repair all types of tank barges.

In addition, the company plans fa- cilities for the discharge of liquid waste for holding tanks aboard ma- rine equipment, the removal of pumps and pump engines mid- stream for repair and replacement on the northbound trip, delivery of all marine supplies midstream, with particular emphasis on Gen- eral Motors engine parts and sup- plies. Delivery and transfer of equipment will 'be accomplished utilizing a new crane barge con- structed for this purpose 'by Main- stream Ship. Construction of the new facility began last month, with operation scheduled for March 1973.

In addition to his duties as gen- eral manager, Mr. Sansing, in his capacity as a marine chemist, will issue all gas-free certificates for

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