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Bart Named President

Matson Agencies, Inc.

Anderson Appointed

Principal Surveyor

For ABS In Orient

The appointment of Warren L.

Anderson as principal surveyor for the Orient was announced by Rob- ert T. Young, chairman and presi- dent of the American Bureau of

Shipping. Mr. Anderson fills the post recently held by the late Ken- neth G.S. Robertson.

As principal surveyor of the Ori- ent, Mr. Anderson directs the ac- tivities of the American Bureau of

Shipping in Japan, Taiwan, South

Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong,

Philippines, Korea, Indonesia,

Thailand, Malaysia, Guam, and the

Trust Territory of the Pacific

Islands.

He joined the American Bureau of Shipping in August 1952 as a surveyor in the Los Angeles-Long

Beach Harbor District. He trans- ferred to Japan in 1955, serving as senior surveyor in Nagasaki and principal surveyor in Kobe, prior to his appointment in 1968 as prin- cipal surveyor for Japan, stationed in Tokyo. Mr. Anderson assumed his new post on July 1.

G.E. Bart

G.E. Bart has been appointed president of Matson Agencies, Inc. newly established subsidiary of

Matson Navigation Company.

R.J. Pfeiffer is chairman of the board of the new firm which has started operations as general agents for NYK Line in the western Unit- ed States, including Hawaii and

Alaska.

Mr. Pfeiffer, president of Matson

Navigation Company, said the new company is part of an expansion program by Matson which will in- troduce roll-on/roll-off trailership service to the Hawaii trade this month.

Mr. Bart, a senior vice president of Matson Navigation Company, will direct the activities of Matson

Agencies, Inc. "Matson Agencies, Inc., has en- tered the general agency business with a full head ctf steam," Mr.

Bart said. "We have the experi- ence and expertise to provide NYK with as efficient service as is avail- able anywhere in the shipping in- dustry."

Piston Products Named

By Hawthorn Leslie

Hawthorn Leslie (Engineers)

Limited of St. Peter's Works in the

U.K., announce the appointment of

Piston Products, Inc. as their agent in the United States, responsible for the sale of Hawthorn Leslie products, including ships main propelling ma- chinery and replacement parts for Sul- zer and Doxford engines built by them.

Piston Products, Inc. is located at 1140 Bloomfield Avenue, West Cald- well, N.J. 07006.

MarAd Gets Title XI

Request For Two 265,000-Dwt Tankers

Two subsidiaries of the First Penn- sylvania Bank and Trust Company—-

First Pennsylvania Tanker I, Inc., and First Pennsylvania Tanker II,

Inc.—have filed applications with the

Maritime Administration for con- struction differential subsidies to build two 265,000-dead weight-ton tankers. Upon approval, Bethlehem

Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point,

Md., yard will construct the tankers; each is expected to cost about $83 million. The First Pennsylvania Tank- er II vessel would be 18-percent owned by Maritime Fruit Carriers,

Inc., according to the request. yj taaaiM

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