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Optimum Ship Routing

Described In Brochure

By Bendix Subsidiary

Bendix Commercial Service Cor- poration, a subsidiary of The Ben- dix Corporation, has published a brochure titled "Optimum Ship

Routing" which describes the Ben- dix Marine Science Services organ- ization's technological and man- power resources.

Optimum Ship Routing (OSR) is a proven and accurate worldwide routing technique serving contain- er, bulk, OBO, tanker, and general cargo vessels and oil rig move- ments.

Some of the benefits of Optimum

Ship Routing are: reduces transit time; reduces fuel consumption; provides greater crew and passen- ger comfort; makes possible better operational planning; avoids hull and cargo damage, and ultimately reduces marine insurance premi- ums.

Further details or a copy of the brochure can be obtained by con- tacting Joel Brafman, Marketing

Engineer, Bendix Commercial

Service Corporation, Marine Sci- ence Services, P.O. Box 2205,

South Hackensack, N.J. 07606.

Maritime Fruit

USA Subsidiary

Elects Board Officers

The election of John Chafee as chairman of the board of

General Martime Corporation, a

United States subsidiary of Mari- time Fruit Carriers Limited, was recently announced.

General Maritime Corporation was recently organized to engage in the transportation of energy re- sources and the shipment of oil in very large crude carriers.

Mr. Chafee, former Governor of

Rhode Island, served as Secretary of the Navy from 1969 to 1971. He is now associated with the law firm of Edwards & Angell, Providence,

R.I.

Mr. Linowitz, a senior partner of

Coudert Brothers, is former chair- man of the board of Xerox Cor- poration and was United States

Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 1966 to 1969.

Also joining the board of direc- tors of General Maritime is Wil- lard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor un- der Presidents Kennedy and John- son.

Other members of the board of directors are Yaacov Meridor, chairman of MFC, Mila Brener, co-chairman of Maritime Fruit

Carriers, and H. Struve Hensel,

Coudert Brothers partner, former

Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Procurement, and Assistant

Secretary of Defense under Presi- dent Eisenhower.

General Maritime expects short- ly to announce the selection of its president.

Maritime Fruit Carriers is a worldwide organization specializ- ing in refrigerated shipping and oil transportation. A series of orders for new supertankers has been placed by Maritime Fruit Carriers with shipyards around the world.

Maritime Fruit has announced that it intends to concentrate all of its activities in this area in General

Maritime Corporation, and several of its supertanker orders have al- ready been assigned to General

Maritime.

Great Lakes Towing

Publishes Brochure

The Great Lakes Towing Company of Cleveland, Ohio, has just pub- lished a new brochure describing its complete services for towing any- where on the Great Lakes. The bro- chure describes the company's barge towing services, including specifica- tions for the tug fleet which is spe- cially designed for the unique condi- tions prevailing on the Great Lakes.

It also includes descriptions of the company's harbor towing, icebreak- ing and other services.

Several maps are included showing

Great Lakes Towing's barge pickup services in the Chicago and St. Law- rence areas, plus the company's serv- ice locations throughout the Great

Lakes region.

The new brochure is available free from The Great Lakes Towing Com- pany, 1800 Terminal Tower, Cleve- land, Ohio 44113.

Shipboard repairs are fast, easy economical with DEVCON.

The U.S. Navy, Esso, Gulf,

Cunard - almost every major fleet operator - uses Devcon materials for all kinds of emer- gency repairs and general maintenance at sea. Repairs such as ballast tanks, cracked pumps, condensers, bulkheads, ventilators and trunks, and many others. Easily and quickly applied, Devcon materials have saved thousands of dollars in repair costs and countless hours of downtime.

Repairs made with the Devcon products in our M-5

Marine Repair Kit have been approved by Lloyds, American

Bureau of Shipping, and other insurance underwriters. This versatile kit is standard equip- ment aboard thousands of ocean-going ships.

The M-5 kit contains Plastic

Steel® A, B, and SF, and several other proven epoxy- and ure- thane-based materials. Instruc- tions in 8 languages. Plastic Steel A is approved under U.S.

Navy Specification MIL-C-15202 for filling and repairing corroded metal ship hull surfaces.

The M-5 Marine Repair Kit is available from Devcon

Distributors in major ports throughout the world. Check list on opposite page. For complete description of M-5 kit and repairs you can make, send for free Devcon Bulletin MR-2.

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