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Hongkong United

Dockyards Publishes 'All About HUD'

Hongkong United Dockyards

Limited, Kowloon Docks, Hung

Horn, Hong Kong, recently pub- lished an illustrated booklet intro- ducing HUD, a powerful new name on the Hong Kong and interna- tional ship repairing scene.

HUD stands for Hongkong

United Dockyards Ltd., a joint company set up by the Taikoo

Dockyard & Engineering Co. of

Hong Kong Ltd. and Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd- to take over the ship repair activities of these two famous shipyards.

Due to rationalization of equip- ment, services and staff, HUD can offer a more competitive, efficient and comprehensive ship repair, con- version and general engineering service than could have been pro- vided by either yard operating in- dependently.

HUD operates two dockyards— the Whampoa Dockyard, on the mainland at Kowloon, and the Tai- koo Dockyard on Hong Kong Is- land.

HUD's main office is situated within its Whampoa facility at

Kowloon Dock where it houses, in addition to senior management, the bulk of the supporting services re- quired by an organization of this size. These services comprise ac- counts and finance, computer, drawing offices, estimating, etc., and of course, the operations staff of the Whampoa Dockyard.

A modern PABX telephone sys- tem covers both dockyards, and it is planned to link the company's telephone number 3-334111 to a ra- dio paging system and thereby im- prove communications further.

The Taikoo facility on Hong

Kong Island has its own opera- tions staff and all services neces- sary for its efficient operation.

Both yards are fully equipped to drydock and service vessels up to 35,000 deadweight tons and repair afloat ships in excess of that size.

The chairmanship of HUD will alternate annually between Taikoo & Whampoa, and the first chair- man will be A.G. Hutchinson of

Whampoa.

The managing director will be

J. Cassels, present managing direc- tor of Taikoo.

The burden of rationalizing fa- cilities between Taikoo and Wham- poa falls on T.R- MacLean and A.

E. Elliott, who both bring to the board 26 years of experience with

Taikoo and Whampoa, respective- ly.

Mr. MacLean transfers to HUD from his position of general man- ager of Taikoo. Mr. Elliott trans- fers to HUD from his position of executive manager-yard operations of

Whampoa.

HUD's director in charge of the commercial, sales and public rela- tions effort is J.D. Hall.

Mr. Hall joined Whampoa in 1961 and leaves his position of ex- ecutive manager - commercial of

Whampoa to join the HUD team-

January 15, 1973

Responsibility for financial mat- ters falls on the shoulders of E.G.

Holgate, HUD's finance director.

Mr. Holgate has been with Tai- koo since 1966 and was secretary and finance manager there before joining HUD.

Operations at HUD's two dock- yards will be controlled by two op- erations managers — C.B. Harris and D.L. MacRae.

Mr. Harris joined Whampoo in 1964 as ship draftsman, and short- ly after transferred to the position of assistant shipyard manager. He now controls operations at Wham- poa, HUD's mainland facility.

Mr. MacRae joined Taikoo in 1962 as chief ship draftsman, but has spent the last five years as as- sistant shipyard manager. He now controls operations at Taikoo,

HUD's island facility.

Already, joint operations have commenced in the salvage and tow- age sector, with the two tug fleets previously operated by Taikoo and

Whampoa being amalgamated by them into a new joint company, the

Hongkong Salvage & Towage Co-

Ltd. This company operates, at present, a fleet of 14 harbor tugs, which gives some indication of the magnitude of facilities that will be available to shipowners with the formation of HUD.

HUD, with five drydocks and three marine slipways backed up by extensive machine and repair shop facilities, can provide all ship- owners' requirements under one roof.

At Conrad, we know the art of barge building & boat repair.

A man's art. A blending of skills, training, experience and discipline. Under leadership of men dedicated to excellence.

When you come to Conrad you benefit.

OF BOATS ANO CONRAD

INDUSTRIES, INC.

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