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problem solution Edwin R. Hebert Doyle Landry, president of Aca-dian Marine Service, Inc., Lafa-yette, La., has. announced the elec- tion of Edwin R. Hebert as the company's treasurer. Mr. Hebert, who has served as Acadian Ma- rine's comptroller since he joined the company in 1971, is a 1966 graduate of the University of

Southwestern Louisiana. He has worked .in accounting in the oil industry since graduation.

Mr., Landry also announced that

Prieur J. Leary Jr., the company's former secretary - treasurer, has been named vitfe president-secre- tary.

Acadian Marine Service is an in- ternational marine' transportation company which owns more than 50 vessels serving the internation- al oil fields and construction in- dustries. The company has offices in New Orleans, Morgan City,

Delcambre and Hamburg, as well as Lafayette.

Globtik To Build 706,000-Ton Tanker —World's Largest Ship

Globtik, the British-based ship- ping group owned by Ravi Tikoo, is to order a giant tanker of 706,000 tons from a Japanese ship- yard. Mr. Tikoo said that a letter of intent ihad been signed with IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Indus- tries Co. Ltd.) in Japan.

The shipping magnate, speaking in London *by telephone link from

Kure, where he was personally taking over the 477,000-ton Glob- tik Tokyo, the largest vessel in the world, from iHl, said that, like the Globtik Tokyo, the 706,000 ton- ner would go on long-term charter to Tokyo Tankers, to bring in crude oil from the Persian Gulf.

The cost of the new vessel was estimated to be around $115 mil- lion at today's prices.

The Globtik Tokyo, a spokesman added, was built at a cost of $55 million, and on her 20-year charter with Tokyo Tankers, would bring crude into the Nippon oil termi- nal at Kure. She would earn an estimated $100 million in 'her first 10 years.

She was laid-down last April and launched in October. Financing was arranged with Mitsui, 80 per- cent payable over eight years at 6 percent, and William Brandt's and National and Grindlays, who provided the balance over a period of 10 years.

Inadequate port facilities for Ro-Ro traffic.

There's nothing new about

Roll-on/Roll-off. Ro-Ro traffic continues to expand fast, but its growth rate is restricted because some ports, even large ones, cannot provide the necessary stem loading facilities such as right angled quays or linkspan connections.

The solution to this problem is a

MacGregor Quarter Stem Ramp.

Which immediately puts both ship and port in the Ro-Ro business, with no additional investment in special quay design.

MacGregor experience in ramp technology has been built up through hundreds of Ro-Ro installations of all types; from the first drive on/drive off ships, more than a decade ago, to large transatlantic vessels, and to contracts completed and in hand for

Quarter Ramps. The MacGregor world-wide network of service stations is your assurance that your traffic will roll on and off at all times.

MacGREGOR

Cargo transfer and access equipment. elimination of the normal secondary barrier requirement (at substantial cost savings), and improved overall reliability of the containment system.

Developed by International Nickel, 9 percent nickel steel can be readily welded in the field, and requires no stress relief. It provides a design stress of 23,750 psi at ambient tem- perature (and up to 32,200 psi at -260° F under a pending ASME code case), has a low coefficient of expan- sion, and it may be directly joined to stainless steel piping and fittings.

Acadian Marine Names

Hebert And Leary Jr.

Norwegian Yard Uses

Nickel Steel Tanks

For LNG Vessels

A new 555,000-barrel LNG tanker, with five spherical tanks of 9 percent nickel steel, will be launched at Sta- vanger, Norway, during the second quarter of 1973. It is one of two ships being completed at the yards of Moss

Rosenberg Verft A/S for Buries-

Markes, Ltd. and P & O Lines, both of the United Kingdom. The second tanker will be completed in the first quarter of 1974.

Kvaerner-Brug of Oslo utilized 800 tons Of alloy in fabricating each of the 115-foot-diameter tanks, which are fully integrated with the main hull structure by means of a continuous tank support skirt.

A combination of 9 percent nickel steel and the spherical design offers several advantages for seagoing con- tainment of LNG—excellent strength, fracture toughness and ductility at cryogenic temperatures; ease of fab- rication ; excellent weldability; the

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