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Shipping Consultants A/S

Publishes 1972-73 Edition

Of "Container Ship Register"

Shipping Consultants A/S, Oslo, has pub- lished its 1972-73 edition of "Container Ship Reg- ister," which is a survey of existing container vessels, newbuildings under construction or on order, conversions on order, and ships projected or planned. Containership operators are listed with details of their services, fleets, and future plans. In addition to addresses, both of owners and operators, the Register also enumerates mem- ber companies of the various consortia. The 1972-73 issue also contains a complete survey of the container trades of the world.

In the Register are given for each ship its name, and if applicable, its previous name, flag, classifi- cation society, service speed, operator, manager, owner, and port of registry, whether motor, steam, turbine, turbo-electric, or gas turbine, type of containership, whether open or closed shelter- decker, number of decks, length of poop, bridge, and forecastle, year of build or conversion, posi- tion of bridge and machinery, number of engines, with horsepower, number of screws, tonnages, dimensions, capacities, number and size of hatch- es, whether fitted with stern or bow ramps, bow or stern thruster, cranes or derricks, number of containers above deck, number of containers be- low deck, number of refrigerated containers, type of container securings above deck, type of con- tainer securings below deck, and type of stabiliz- ing system.

The Register will be of use to all concerned with containers, including shipping companies, ship-brokers, manufacturers of containers and con- tainer-handling equipment, freight forwarders, agents, port authorities, shipbuilders and ship repairs, marine consultants, railway companies, and others.

The Container Ship Register is compiled and published by Shipping Consultants A/S, Fridt- jof Nansens Plass 6, P.O. Box 1370, Oslo 1,

Norway. Price per copy is U.S. $30.

Bethlehem Sparrows Point Yard

To Build Huge Tankers For

Long-Term Charter By Gulf Oil

Gulf Oil Corporation has announced plans to charter two very large tankers to transport crude oil internationally under the U.S. flag.

The tankers, both in the 265,000-deadweight- ton class, will be built by Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration at its Sparrows Point, Md., shipyard.

The tankers will be owned by a trust for the benefit of General American Transportation Cor- poration, Citicorp Leasing, Inc., and other partici- pants to be named later. Subsidiaries of Energy

Transportation Corporation will hold the bareboat charters and place the ships with Gulf under 20- year time charters.

Under provisions added to the Merchant Ma- rine Act in 1970, the owners will apply to the

U.S. Maritime Administration for construction differential subsidies on the tankers, which will have a base price of $76 million each, and the subsidiaries of Energy Transportation Corpora- tion will seek operating differential subsidies over the time charter period.

The subsidies are based on the difference be- tween U.S. and foreign shipbuilding and operating costs, and were provided for by Congress to encourage ship construction in the United States and an increase in the size of the U.S.-flag fleet, and to create more jobs for U.S. merchant sea- men.

Gulf said the arrangement was significant be- cause it will be the first time a major American oil company has chartered U.S.-built and manned ships of this size on a long-term basis. The com- pany added that the subsidies are necessary to make U.S. ships competitive with those flying foreign flags.

Gulf intends to use the tankers to transport crude oil from producing countries to nations with ports large enough to handle them, including the United States, if efforts to construct super- ports in its waters are successful.

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Admiral George Dewey Memorial with Richmond Borough president Robert T. Connor. The monument was dedi- cated by Admiral Moorer in midday ceremonies at Man- hattan's Battery Park on May 3, the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. Mr. Connor, as a New York

City councilman in 1965, introduced a bill designating the site as the Admiral George Dewey Promenade. The memorial is the result of an effort by 1 9 civic, veterans' and historical associations. They are: The Naval Acad- emy Alumni Association of N.Y.; United Spanish-Ameri- can War Veterans; Sons of the Revolution; Sons of the

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