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Malta Yard Wins

Another Order From

Single Buoy Moorings

Malta Drydocks Corporation has won an order—the second in a two- week period—from Single Buoy

Moorings, Inc., of Monaco.

The order calls for the fabrication of a single point mooring buoy meas- uring approximately 36 feet in di- ameter by about 16 feet in height.

Some 150 tons of steel will be in- volved in its construction.

An order for an identical buoy was placed with Malta Drydocks Corpora- tion on July 4. The corporation has already delivered a temporary moor- ing buoy to Single Buoy Moorings, and a single buoy storage installation for the same company is nearing com- pletion in the yard.

The orders placed with Malta Dry- docks Corporation by Single Buoy

Moorings to date are worth approxi- mately $1,016,000.

SNAME Publishes

Guide For Shipboard

Crane Specifications

Even with 'the advent of many new types of ships, such as LASH,

SEABEE and ro;ll-on/roll-off ves- sels, the vast majority of cargo is still transferred 'between the ship and the s'hore via cranes. In an effort to facilitate procurement and operational standardization for the crane buyer, manufacturer and the ship operator-owner, The Society of N'aval Architects and Marine

Engineers' Technical and Research (T&R) Program has published

Bulletin 4-12, "Guide for Shipboard

Crane Specifications," 'by Panel 0-31 (Cargo Handling) of the ship technical operations committee.

The bulletin was written to pro- vide technical guidance for the equipment buyer in specifying par- ticulars to suppliers, and to pro- vide a more consistent and uniform specification which would be of assistance to the manufacturer in designing shipboard cranes. The bulletin sets forth requirements for rotating boom and traveling gan- try cranes, as well as various o'ther special cranes 'designed for ship- board medium and heavy-lift ca- pacity. These cranes may be pow- ered iby diesel, diesel electric, elec- tric-mechanical or hydraulic means.

Included as a supplement in this publication is a summary of re- quirements, along with worksheets to be completed by the buyer, which can be used in the ordering of shipboard crane equipment from the manufacturer. This supplement thus spells out in detail the par- ticular requirements and capacities for the specific use or ship installa- tion and serves as a reminder or check-off sheet to assure that de- tails are not overlooked.

T&R Bulletin 4-12, "Guide for

Shipboard Crane Specifications," was reviewed and approved for publication by the ship technical operations committee and is avail- able through The Society of Naval

August 23, 1973

Architects and Marine Engineers, 74 Trinity.Place, New York, N.Y. 10006, at $14.25 per copy. Mem- bers of the Society may obtain this bulletin at a price of $9.50 per copy.

If payment is included with the order, the price includes postage via third class -mail in the United

States and as "Printed Matter" in all other countries. Shipments will be insured or sent air mail at addi- tional cost only if requested.

Hisashi Matsunaga

Named President

Japan Line, Ltd.

Hisashi Matsunaga has been named president of Japan Line,

Ltd., according to reports from To- kyo that followed action by the shipping company's board of di- rectors. With some 33 years of service in a variety of ship indus- try positions, Mr. Matsunaga heads one of the world's biggest ocean trade enterprises.

At the present time, Japan Line operates 224 ships in worldwide services that include container- ships, conventional dry cargoliner vessels, tankers and other ships in tramping activities. The company owns 65 of these vessels, with an aggregate deadweight tonnage of 4,327,259.

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