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Fourth Quarter Of 1972

Shipbuilding Returns

Reported By Lloyd's

The revival in the United States shipbuilding industry apparent from Lloyd's Register's report for the September quarter of 1972 con- tinued into the following quarter, according to the international ship classification society. Ships under construction here, together with those on order but not commenced, totaled 2,899,542 gross tons at the end of December. This is 309,440 tons more than 'the previous quar- ter.

Apart from Communist China and Russia, for which details are not available, there are building in the world 1,916 merchant ships of 24,350,507 gross tons, which is 581,487 tons less than the last quar- ter, and is the first decrease since

September 1971.

The decline in the demand for new tonnage, which had been pre- valent during 1972 and is current- ly reflected in the reduction of ton- nage under construction, was halted in the latter weeks of the year by a remarkable upsurge of new orders.

More than 10,000,000 tons of ship- ping was contracted for in Decem- ber alone.

The possibility of further revalu- ation of the yen, together with im- provements in the tanker market, are responsible for owners taking up berth space in Japan well into 1976. Swedish and West German yards also booked orders for huge tankers.

Tankers represent 66.8 percent, bulk carriers 21.2 percent, and gen- eral cargo 6.7 percent of the total order book. 7,365,746 gross, tons of shipping of which keels have already been laid are being built under the su- pervision of surveyors of Lloyd's

Register of Shipping.

DEVCON distributors supplying M-5 Marine

Repair Kits

BAHRAIN

The International Agencies Co. Ltd.

P.O. Box 584

Cable: INTERC0L

Phone: 4275, 4166, 3607, 5931/2

BELGIUM

Compagnie Commerciale Kreglinger, S.A.

Grote Markt 9 2000 Antwerp

Cable: KREGPLASTICS

Phone: 329889 (15.1)

CANADA

Dumart. ltd 671 Wilson St

St. John N B

Phone (5061 672 6370

Industrial Plastics 2105 Douglas St.

Victoria, B.C.

Phone: (604) 386-1477

E.B. Peerless Ltd. 5934 Fraser Street

Vancouver, B.C.

Phone: (604) 327-1181

W.N. White & Co. 213 Bedford Highway

Rockingham

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Phone: (902) 454-6431

CANARY ISLANDS

Alcorde, S.L.

Benecharo, 1 - 3°

Las Palmas

Cable: ALCORDE LAS PALMAS

Phone 26 1324 - 26 1328 - 26 0284

FINLAND

AB Axel Von Knorrings Tekniska Byra

P.O. Box 38020

SF-00380 Helsinki 38

Cable: MASKINAXEL

Phone: 554488

FRANCE

C.O.M.E.T. 10, Avenue Eugene-Gazeau 60, 304 Senlis

Cable: COMELEVAL-PARIS

Phone: 455-35-40

GERMANY

A. Friedrich Kruse KG

Geeren 26-28 (Postfach 1321) 28 Bremen 1

Phone: (0421) 310648

Louis Taxt

P.O. Box 50-1528

Oelkersallee 29 2 Hamburg

Cable: TAXIT HAMBURG

Phone: 431007

GREECE

Stelios Athanassacopoulos & Co. O.E. 59, Platonos Street

Athens 208,

Cable: AGENCITA - ATHENS

Phone: 547 - 117

HOLLAND

Machine-En Gereedschappenhandel Tools N.V.

Schakelstraat 21 (P.O. Box 8040)

Amsterdam 1016

Cable: TOOLS AMSTERDAM

Phone:(020) - 822655

Van Gelder Compagnie N.V.

Schuttevaerweg 60

Postbox 660

Rotterdam, 3008

Cable: VEEGEECO - ROTTERDAM

Phone:(010)156622

HONGKONG

Casey Company, Ltd. 1914, Prince's Building,

Chater Road

Cable: CASEYC0 - HONGKONG

Phone: H-239619 H-242916 H-231652 H-242906

IRAN

Boroudat Company Ltd. 14 Sagheb Street

Roosevelt Avenue 15164 Tehran 5

Cable: BOROUDAT COMPANY LTD. 1445 TEHRAN

Phone: 830873-4 / 827328

ITALY

Rimassa, S.A.S.

Via A. Cecchi, 13 16129 Genova

Cable: AM ERI TOOLS

Phone: 56.62.68 - 58.13.23

KUWAIT

Arabi W.L.L.

Safat P.O. Box 4090

Cable: HAMSEF - KUWAIT

Phone: 210-07

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES

Philipsburg Utilities Co., N.V. Inc.

Post Office Box 18

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

SAUDI ARABIA

National Auto Parts Distributor Co.

P.O. Box 79

Alkhobar

Cable: NAPCO ALKHOBAR

Phone: 42663

SPAIN

Navinter, S.A.

Muelle de Uribitarte (Esquina Deposito Franco)

Bilbao -1,

Phone: 215405 y 215261

SWEDEN

A/B Eskilstuna-Boden

P.O. Box 476

S-40 1 27 Goteborg 1

Phone: 031/27 54 20

TAIWAN

Fu Yen Trading Co., Ltd. 83, Chin Hua Street, Taipei

Taiwan

Cable: WAIC0 - TAIWAN

Phone: 25216

THAILAND

United Machinery Co. Ltd. 406-414 Worachakr Rd.

P.O. Box 1618, Near S.A.B.

Bangkok

Cable: UMAC BANGKOK

Phone: 211673, 217223, 212481

UNITED KINGDOM

Burnyeat Ltd. 5/9 Dod Street

Limehouse, London, E. 14

Phone: LIMEHOUSE (01-987) 2484

Butlers Stores Ltd. 13/16 West Smithfield, London, E.C. 1

Phone: City (01-248) 1212

Mersey Equipment Co.,

Arc House 121 Corporation Street

Birkenhead, Liverpool, Cheshire

Phone: Birkenhead (051-647) 9751

Watts Finchem Ltd.,

Ships Stores 9 St. Helens Place

London, E.C. 3

Phone: London Wall (01-588) 5216

UNITED STATES

Gulf Coast Marine Supply 501 Stimrod Road

Mobile, Alabama

Phone: (205) 432-4465

Marine Sales, Inc. 835 Tchoupitoulas St.

New Orleans, La.

Phone: 524-6549

Pedley Knowles Co. 533 Second Street

San Francisco, California

Phone: (415) 421-9500

Texas Marine & Industrial Supply 8050 Harrisburg Blvd.

Houston, Texas

Phone: (713) 923-9771

H.S. White Co. 251 19th Street

Brooklyn, New York

Phone: (212) 768-5300

O.C. & K.R. Wilson, Inc. 32 N. Moore St.

New York, New York

Phone: (212) 227-2326

For names of other distributors, contact Devcon offices on facing page.

Hitachi's Sakai Yard Delivers 235-Type Tanker

The Hoko Maru will be placed in service between Japan and the Persian Gulf.

The 235-Type tanker Hoko Maru for The Sanko Steamship Co., Ltd., which had been under construction at Hitachi Zosen's Sakai Shipyard, was completed and delivered to her owner on February 26, 1973.

This ship is one of the standard- type ships developed by Hitachi

Zosen. Five of this type, including the Hoko Maru, were completed, and four more are scheduled for completion by the end of 1974.

The 237,800-dwt tanker has the following approximate measure- ments : length between perpendicu- lars, 1,017 feet; breadth, 174 feet, and depth, 82 feet. She is powered by a Hitachi UA-360-type steam- turbine main engine with a maxi- mum output of 36,000 hp, deliver- ing a trial speed of 16.303 knots.

The Hoko Maru is equipped with an eductor stripping system to im- prove unloading efficiency ; a fixed tank cleaning system, as well as conventional portable devices; an inert gas system, and, for corrosion protection, the inside of the cargo oil tanks are coated with tar epoxy paint, and the cargo oil pipes are made of anticorrosive cast steel.

PORT ENGINEERS ELECT NEW OFFICERS: Shown above at a meeting recently held at the Downtown Athletic Club, New York City, are the newly elected officers of The

Society of Marine Port Engineers New York, N.Y., Inc. Seated, left to right: William P.

Towner, 2nd vice president; Philip A. Donahue, president, and Joseph Thelgie, 1st vice president. Standing, left to right: Harry H. Hunt, secretary-treasurer; L. Paul

Ackermann, steering committee chairman; Harlan T. Haller, a director; John C. Fox

Jr., chairman of the board; Edward English, program and entertainment committee chair- man, and John Antonetz, papers and technical committee chairman.

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