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Star Straddle Carriers

To Be Installed At APL

Terminal In San Pedro

Star Iron & Steel Co., Tacoma,

Was'h.,- has been awarded a con- tract for the construction, delivery and assembly of six large Star Kar- ricon straddle carriers for Ameri- can President Lines' Los Angeles

Harbor Terminal at San Pedro,

Calif., it was announced by Thomas

Lenahan, president of Star. The straddle carriers will be working in conjunction with a 40-ton capacity

Starporter container crane, which is already operating at dockside in

APL's new facility, specifically renovated for container handling.

The Starporter was also supplied by Star Iron & Steel (a wholly owned subsidiary of Breeze Cor- porations, Inc.).

Star Karricons have a number of unique operating features, in- cluding their capability to stack containers three-high. Most strad- dle carriers will only stack such containers two-high. They will trav- el at speeds up to 15 mph, and can hoist at speeds up to 32 fpm.

The Star Karricons also feature a fully automatic telescopic spread- er, which extends to appropriate lengths of different size containers and locks mechanically by push- button control, even while the ma- chine is traveling. The spreader can also be side shifted and slewed to pickup irregularly positioned containers.

Twin diesel-hydraulic power units drive hydrostatic motors on all four wheels and on the inde- pendently controlled front and rear hoists. Fail-safe disc brakes are coupled to each drive and hoist motor.

Star Karricons are manufactured by Star Iron •& Steel Co. under li- cense from Rubery Owen & Co.,

Ltd., England. The first three Star

Karricons will be in operation this month. The second three are sched- uled for delivery in mid-1973.

U.S. Freight Elects

Julio Del Valle VP

Marine Activities

Julio Del Valle

Julio Del Valle has been elected vice president of United States

Freight, it was announced by G.

Russell Moir, chairman and presi- dent. Mr. Del Valle is responsible for all marine activities of the di- versified domestic and international transportation holding company.

Mr. Del Valle, who had been as- sistant vice president of USF prior to his new appointment, has spent his entire business career in the marine transportation industry. He joined USF in 1966 as vice presi- dent and general manager of Co- ordinated Caribbean Transport,

Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary which operates a roll-on/roll-oft service between Miami and Central

America. One of his first assign- ments was to design and supervise construction of the trailership Mar

Caribe, which entered Central

American service in December 1968. He was named assistant to the president of USF at New York headquarters in 1969, and assistant vice president in 1971.

Born and educated in Havana,

Cuba, Mr. Del Valle was employed as manager of agency traffic in New

York by Garcia & Diaz, Inc., steam- ship agents, from 1951 until join- ing C.C.T.

Barges To Be Built

From C-4 Midbodies

For Coastwise Trade

Plans to convert four C-4 mid- bodies into eight deck cargo barges for the U.S. coastwise trade has been approved for Government construc- tion and mortgage insurance by the

Maritime Administration.

The applicant is World Service Inc. of New Orleans, La. Slocum Iron

Works Inc., Mobile, Ala., will do the conversion.

The strategic location of Antigua in the

Northeast Caribbean and our extensive marine facilities have always been good reasons for you to Bunker Antigua.

But now, with the addition of the modern

M.T. BUNKER ANTIGUA, we're making it even more worthwhile. Some important particulars on the M.T. BUNKER ANTIGUA include: capacity approximately 42,000 barrels, pumping rate in excess of 5,000 barrels per hour, carries all grades of marine fuels as well as potable water.

M.T. BUNKER ANTIGUA ensures prompt delivery and quick turnaround to ocean- going vessels of all types and sizes includ- ing mammoth tankers, OBO's, container ships and cruise liners.

To find out all the advantages of bunkering

Antigua or to place orders, contact our agent nearest you.

TO ORDER: CONTACT MfZS

In New York:

INDEPENDENT

PETROLEUM

SUPPLY CO. 1345 Avenue of the Americas

New York, N.Y. 10019

Tel. (212) 245-1280

In London:

INDEPENDENT

PETROLEUM

SUPPLY CO.

Swan House 34/35 Queen St.

London E.C.4

Tel. 01-236-4326

In San Francisco:

INDEPENDENT

PETROLEUM

SUPPLY CO. 601 California St.

San Francisco,

Cal. 94108

Tel. (415) 981-5700

In Tokyo:

IPS EASTERN

CORPORATION

Taisho Seimei Bldg. 7,1-chome,Yurakucho

Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo,

Tel. 214-2531/2

IN EUROPE, CONTACT:

Bunker Agent

C. Kubon & Company

Herm. Dauelsberg

The Maritime Agency

A. Anker-Nilssen A/S

Oil-Shipping Co.

Josef Nilsson AB

City

Bergen

Bremen

Copenhagen

Oslo

Rotterdam

Stockholm

Territory

West Coast Norway

Bremen area

Denmark

East Coast Norway

Benelux, Switzerland

Sweden, Finland

SHIPOWNERS IN ITALY, FRANCE. GREECE, SPAIN AND THE HAMBURG AREA

MAY CONTACT THEIR LOCAL BROKER OR IPS LONDON. *2JOOOOO helper for

Antigua Pit Slop

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