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Maritime Fruit Orders 258.000 VLCC From

Scott Lithgow Group

Maritime Fruit Carriers Company

Limited announced it has ordered from the Scott Lithgow Group of the United Kingdom, one 258,000- deadweight-ton very large crude carrier to be delivered in 1975.

This order of supertanker tonnage is one of a series which Maritime

Fruit Carriers, or its subsidiaries, have placed with shipbuilders around the world since mid-1972 for large crude carrying capacity.

In two of its most recent orders, on January 30, 1973, Maritime Fruit

Carriers announced that a British subsidiary ordered six 333.000-dead- weight-ton VLCCs from Harland and Wolff Limited of Belfast, North- ern Ireland.

On June 30, 1972, it was announced that its United States subsidiary,

General Maritime Corporation, would time-charter three 265,000-dead- weight-ton supertankers to be built by Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

In addition, on January 8, 1973, it was announced that Maritime had signed a letter of intent for General

Maritime Corporation with Todd

Shipyards Corp. for the construction by Todd of three 380,000-deadweight- ton supertankers, with an option for three additional such vessels.

Maritime Fruit Carriers Company

Limited is a multinational organiza- tion specializing in refrigerated ship- ping and oil transportation.

N.J. Marandino Named

Senior Vice President

Of Litton Industries

Ned J. Marandino

Ned J. Marandino has been named a senior vice president of

Litton Industries, it was announced by Litton president Fred W.

O'Green.

Mr. Marandino was president of the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division with responsibility for Litton Ship- building activities in Pascagoula,

Miss. He became president of In- galls in 1969. His responsibilities increased last year when Ingalls was consolidated with the Litton

Ship Systems Division, and he was named president of the new organ- ization. He has been a corporate vice president since 1970.

Mr. Marandino joined Litton's

Guidance and Control Systems Di- vision in 1964, where he served as vice president and director of op- erations. Previously, he held senior management positions at Lockheed

Missile and Space Division.

He is a native of New York

City, where he attended Brooklyn

College

Ingalls Shipbuilding Division in- cludes 168 acres of conventional and nuclear submarine construction and overhaul facilities and a 611- acre site specializing in 'series pro- duction of surface ships. Ships for both the U.S. merchant marine fleet and the U.S. Navy now are in production.

Aschemeyer To Head

Pacific Operations

For Prudential-Grace

Capt. Manfred H.K. Aschemeyer has been named operations man- ager for Prudential-Grace Lines

Pacific Division office. His duties will include terminal operations in loading vessels from Vancouver,

British Columbia to Long Beach,

Calif. Additionally, he will oversee container maintenance and repair for Prudential-Grace Lines' West

Coast service to Latin America.

Captain Aschemeyer graduated from the California Maritime Acad- emy in 1963, and upon graduation sailed extensively on American-flag vessels until assuming a teaching position at the 'California Maritime

Academy in 1969.

Captain Aschemeyer joined Pru- dential-Grace Lines in 1971 as freight traffic manager for the

Lines' Long Beach office, and was promoted to assistant manager of that office last year. we build... repair... overhaul... and convert

The 1 26 foot tug Seaspan Monarch undergoes annual overhaul in one of

Vancouver Shipyards drydocks.

We can work.on 13 drydocked vessels simultaneously on our 25 acre shipyard site. Or we can send our technical experts and repair units to your ship for in-port repairs, overhauls, or modifications.

For more than 25 years now Vancouver Shipyards has been building, overhauling and repairing vessels of all sizes ranging from small pleasure craft to large ships and specialized floating equipment. We are conveniently located on the North Shore waterfront in the port of

Vancouver - the busiest seaport on the Pacific coast of the Americas.

Our ship repair division operates a 24-hour service.

Call us anytime.

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