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Porter Coatings

Establishes Five

Operating Zones

Recent acquisitions by Porter

Coatings, Louisville, Ky., of the marine and industrial coatings busi- ness of USS Chemicals include

TARSET® INSUL-MASTIC® and

TARMASTIC® lines and, from

Bituminous Products, the widely known ZINC-LOCK® patented in- organic zinc.

Porter Coatings has further streamlined its entire sales/service organization into five operating zones with zone offices as follows:

Kenilworth, N,J. (Northeast); At- lanta, Ga. (Southeast) ; Chicago, 111. (North Central) ; Houston, Tex- as (South Central), and Emeryville,

Calif. (Western).

To strengthen marine service ca- pability, staff additions include C.

Peter Treleaven, formerly of Devoe

Marine, headquartered in Houston ;

Eugene B. Rode, formerly of Zinc-

Lock, in Los Angeles, Calif.; and

Jack F. O'Neill, formerly of Amer- on Marine, in New Orleans, La.

Porter is .now a full service source of specific high performance materials and services for marine and offshore trade.

Porter Coatings, Division of Por- ter Paint Co., general offices are lo- cated at 400 South 13 Street, Louis- ville, Ky. 40201.

Six Top Executives

Promoted At TTT

Transamerican Trailer Trans- port, Inc., which, since 1968, has introduced the world's three larg- est and fastest roll-on trailerships in the Puerto Rican trade, has an- nounced six key promotions in keeping with the "responsibilities that result with growth," accord- ing to R.D. Carter, TTT president.

At TTT's headquarters office in

Staten Island, N.Y., Paul Semack has been appointed senior vice president - marketing; Boleslaw

Szolkowski, senior vice president- operations; Clifford G. Williams, senior vice president-finance, and

D. Bernard Carr, vice president- sales.

At the company's San Juan of- fice, Roberto Lugo D'Acosta has been promoted to executive vice president-Puerto Rico, and Rudy

Irrizary, vice president - Puerto

Rico.

In announcing the appointments,

Mr. Carter noted that they were the direct result of TTT's and Puerto

Rico's continued expansion and growth over the past five years.

FIRST OF TWO FROM MITSUI: The 116, 570-dwt bulk/ore carrier Polyviking was re- cently delivered at the Tamano Works of Mitsui Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd. to her owner, Einar Rasmussen, Norway. Driven by Mitsui B&W 9K84EF type diesel engine with a maximum continuous output of 23,200 bhp at 1 1 4 rpm, the vessel has a cargo hold capacity of approximately 4,930,252 cubic feet, and a maximum trial speed of 17.86 knots. Her general dimensions are about 853 feet in overall length, 817 feet in bp length, 130 feet molded breadth, 74 feet in molded depth, and a full load draft of 54 feet. The Polyviking is the first of two similar carriers ordered by the same owner from Mitsui.

Bath Iron Launches AEL's Newest Containership

SNAME San Diego Section Hears Paper

Pictured at the meeting, left to right: Melvin F. Good, secretary-treasurer of the San

Diego Section; David R. Rodger, Section vice chairman; H.N. Wallin, speaker; Comdr.

Raymond W. Bernhardt, papers chairman, and G.A. Uberti, Section chairman.

The first meeting for the new year of 1973 for the San Diego Sec- tion of The Society of Naval Ar- chitects and Marine Engineers was held at Caesar's Restaurant in Mis- sion Valley on January 17.

Following the social hour, H.N.

Wallin, director of engineering of the Harbor Boat Building Com- pany, Terminal Island, Calif., gave an excellent and informative paper on "Marine Sewage Control Plants, a Guide to Selection."

Mr. Wallin's presentation out- lined the various methods of sew- age treatment available and the types of marine sewage control equipment presently in use. Five basic sewage control processes were examined,along with the character- istics for an "ideal" marine sewage treatment control plant being de- fined to meet the new requirements and regulations to become effective in 1973 by the United States Coast

Guard for vessels in U.S. navig- able waters.

Shortly before launching ceremonies for American Export Lines' containership Export

Patriot, the following dignitaries posed in front of the podium: (left to right) Laurence J.

Buser, president and chief executive officer of American Export Lines; Mrs. and Com- missioner Ashton C. Barrett; Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Blackwell; Commissioner James V.

Day, and James F. Goodrich, president, Bath Iron Works.

The Export Patriot, last of six containerships built by Bath Iron

Works for American Export Lines,

Inc., was launched on February 3 at Bath, Maine. These vessels are the largest ships ever constructed in the state of Maine.

Mrs. Robert J. Blackwell, wife of the Assistant Secretary of Com- merce for Maritime Affairs, spon- sored the vessel by shattering the traditional bottle of champagne on the bow as the new containership slipped into the Kennebec River.

The Export Patriot displaces 26,- 670 tons, has a length of 610 feet overall, a beam of 78 feet, and a de- sign draft of 27 feet. Her General

Electric turbine propulsion system is rated at 17,500 shaft horsepower and her service speed is 21 knots.

With five hatches and a system per- mitting deck stowage of containers, she has a capacity of 1,070 twenty- foot containers, or the equivalent in 20-foot and 40-foot containers, refrigerated vans and gondolas.

The ship's power plant is fully automated and may be operated from a central console located on the bridge. She features air-con- ditioned accommodations through- out.

For maneuvering ease during docking and undocking, and for op- erations in restricted waters, the vessel is equipped with an 800- horsepower bow thruster which is controlled from the bridge. The

Export Patriot has a bulbous bow and cruiser stern, and the upper portions of her hull are fabricated

The Export Patriot stands ready for chris- tening as Laurence J. Buser, president and chief executive officer of American Export

Lines, addresses guests and dignitaries at- tending the launching, of high tensile steel, permitting substantial savings of weight top- side.

Three of the Export Patriot's sister ships—the Sea Witch, Light- ning, and Staghound—are current- ly operating on AEL's North Eu- rope trade route.

The Export Leader, launched last July, will soon join the Export

Freedom, launched last January, on AEL's full-container Mediter- ranean trade route. 14 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News