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Five Containerships

For Three Companies

Hapag-Lloyd AG, Hamburg/Bre- men, Harrison Line, Liverpool, and

KNSM Line, Amsterdam, have joint- ly awarded a contract for five full container vessels to the Gdanska

Shipyard (Danzig). Hapag-Lloyd and Harrison each ordered two of these vessels; one will be built for

KNSM.

All five ships are intended for a joint service system to be introduced by the three lines between Europe and certain ports in the Caribbean.

They will be equipped with on-board container cranes, their capacity being 1,200 twenty-foot containers. The

Sulzer main engine will provide for a service speed of 22 knots.

The first vessel is due for delivery in 1976.

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A subsidiary of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. projects. He has also had duties in the corporation's executive of- fice at Lynwood, Calif.

Mr. Eitner will continue as di- vision manager of the Heavy Ma- chinery Division at Everett, and will report directly to Western

Gear president Philip J. Gomez at

Lynwood, Calif.

Mitsubishi Negotiating

Tanker Order With

Anglo-Nordic Shipping

The Anglo-Nordic Shipping

Group, in less than a month after its acquisition by P and O and the

Reksten's Palmerston holdings, is negotiating with Mitsubishi Heavy

Industries for three 402,000-ton ul- tra large crude carriers (ULCCs).

The finance for the tankers, which are to be built on fixed-price contract and delivered in 1977, is being arranged by Anglo-Nordic, formerly Zapata Naess.

A statement from P and O added that "In keeping with the present trading policy of Anglo-Nordic, P and O and Palmerston, employ- ment for the new tankers will be arranged nearer the time of deliv- ery."

P and O, the U.K. shipping group, and Palmerston, a company headed by Norwegian tanker own- er Hilmar Reksten, each have a 50 percent holding in Anglo-Nordic.

The affiliated Associated Bulk Car- riers (ABC) shipping consortium is 75 percent owned by P and O and 25 percent by Palmerston, and it is not known whether these new

ULCCs will be employed strictly by Anglo^Nordic or within the

ABC framework.

FIRST STAGES OF OPERATION AT HUD: Over 40 members of the Institute of Marine

Engineers, Hongkong Branch, recently visited Hongkong United Dockyards Ltd., Taikoo

Yard, to view the first stages of an operation to join the stern section of the M/V

Thomas to the tank section of the S/S Brussels. A short lecture given by W.B. Brown, presently in charge of this project, was followed by a visit on board both vessels which are now alongside Taikoo Yard. Mr. Brown explained that the Thomas enters drydock first and a double cut is made around the ship, leaving the two wing tanks and one center tank intact on the aft portion. These tanks will be fully ballasted to keep the aft body on the keel blocks while the forebody is pulled clear at low tide. The forebody of the

Brussels replaces that of the Thomas and has a completely new section fitted to it, incorporating pump room, generators and motor room. This new section has been pre- fabricated into units weighing about 20 tons each. On completion of the attachment of this new section, the Brussels will enter the drydock to be lined up and joined to the

Thomas stern. The ship thus formed will emerge under the new name of Kassos. Insti- tute members will again visit this interesting project when work has progressed to a further stage.

Western Gear Elects

Eitner Vice President

Ade K. Eitner

Ade K. Eitner, manager of West- ern Gear Corporation's Heavy Ma- chinery Division at Everett, Wash., has been elected a vice president of the company, chairman Bernard

J. Bannan has announced.

Mr. Eitner was named manager of the Everett division a year ago, following three years in a similar capacity with the firm's Flight

Structures Division, also at Ever- ett.

At Heavy Machinery Division, he has spearheaded and maintained the company's leading position in developing and producing special- ized proprietary equipment such as pipeline tensioners, heave compen- sators, riser and guideline tension- ers, and other massive machinery and equipment for the offshore oil industry, marine, and industrial fields worldwide.

A native of San Francisco, Calif., and a 1955 graduate of the Univer- sity of Santa Clara with a B.S.M.E. degree, Mr. Eitner has held suc- cessive managerial and engineering posts with other Western Gear di- visions since joining the firm in 1955, including positions as pro- gram manager for several major 52 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News