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New Subsidy Bids

Boost MA's Backlog

To Over $6 Billion "

The Maritime Administration has received applications for sub- sidy to Ibuild nine tankers, bring- ing its already record backlog of subsidy bids up to nearly $6.4 bil- lion and well over 100 ships.

Three of the latest applications cover the very large crude carriers (V'L'OCs) class. They were sub- mitted by Bernuth, Lemcke Co.,

Inc., New York, .N.Y. That com- pany, which has a one-ship Libe- rian-flag operation (Bernuth Tank- ers Inc.), plus one active U.S.-flag company (Eppinger and Russell

Co.), expects its 270,700 dead- weight tonners to cost some $80 million each. No builder has been chosen. They will be time-char- tered for carriage of petroleum products worldwide, the applica- tion said.

Subsidy for smaller tankers (two of 89,700 dwt each) is sought by

Fuel Transport Inc., Rutherford,

N.J., a new company formed by

Michael G. Mitchell and George

Dafkalopoulos, both of Penn Ship- ping Co. The ships, expected to cost $30 million each, were said to be intended to haul oil into the

United States.

America Trading Transportation

Co., a subsidiary of American

Trading and Production Corp., asked for subsidy for two 89,000- dwt tankers to bring oil from Af- rica to U.S. Atlantic and Gulf ports. No cost estimate was given, but the applicant said the ships would be built by Maryland Ship- building and Drydock Co., Balti- more, Md.

Bernuth and Fuel Transport also indicated that operating subsidy would be asked for later.

An earlier applicant for construc- tion subsidy for a 40,000-dwt lum- ber-phosphate carrier, National

Shipping Corp., has advised the board it, too, will seek operating subsidy for its Canadia-U.S. East

Coast service.

The latest three applications brought MarAd's backlog to 12 of the under 100,000-dwt tankers, 33 of the VDCCs, 20 combination ore/ bulk/oil (OBO) carriers, 25 lique- fied natural gas carriers (LNGs), 10 tug-barges, 6 chemical carriers, 7 dry bulks, and 1 mini lighter- aboard-ship type.

Ralph Clack Named

President Of Skagit

Ralph A. Clack

Ralph A. Clack has been appoint- ed president and chief executive officer of the Skagit Corporation,

Sedro-Woolley, Wash., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bendix

Corporation.

Mr. Clack succeeds Murray

Weingarten, who had held the post for the last two years. The ap- pointment was announced by Don- ald S. Jones, president of the Ben- dix Industrial Group. Skagit is .a part of that group.

Mr. Clack was formerly presi- dent and general manager of the

Lorain Division of the Roehring

Company, Chattanooga, Tenn., a major producer of cranes and ex- cavating equipment.

He joined Lorain in 1964 as a product manager, was named sales manager in 1966, and in 1968 be- came vice president of marketing.

He was promoted to president and general manager in 1970.

Other positions Mr. Clack has held include vice president of op- erations for ithe O.R. Burden Con- struction Corp., Tulsa, Okla., from 1962 to 1964, and sales posts for the Euclid Division of'General Mo- tors Corp. and the Bucyrus-Erie

Co.

Mr. Clack is a 1951 graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technol- ogy, Atlanta, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering. $2400000 helper for

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