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U.S. Freight Subsidiary

Appoints Robinson

Vice Pres. • Chartering

William B. Robinson

William B. Robinson has been appointed vice president-charter- ing' of U.S. Freight Transport De- velopment, Inc., ship brokerage subsidiary of United States Freight

Company, according to an an- nouncement by G. Russell Moir, chairman and chief executive of the parent, a holding company with diverse intermodal transportation- distribution interests.

Mr. Robinson joins USFTD from

East West Chartering Company,

New York, where he had been vice president since 1969. Previously, he had been New York broker for

Algo Faros (Shipping, Ltd., for two years. Mr. Robinson began his shipping career in 1953 with Kerr

Steamship Company, New York, where he was chartering manager before joining Algo Faros in 1967.

A native of New York City, Mr.

Robinson received his bachelor of arts degree from Manhattan Col- lege in 1951, following Army serv- ice in Korea, where he was pier supervisor at Pusan.

P.J. Collins Named

Personnel Supervisor

Cliffs' Marine Dept.

Peter J. Collins has been named marine personnel supervisor for

The Gleveland-Cliffs Iron Com- pany, Cleveland, Ohio, according to Richard P. Eide, manager, ma- rine department.

A native Clevelander, Mr. Col- lins graduated from John Carroll

University in 1968 with an A.B. de- gree in sociology. Following serv- ice with the U..S. Army where he attained the rank of first lieutenant,

Mr. Collins joined Cliffs' marine department as marine personnel as- sistant in 1971. 65,000th Container

Delivered To Sea-Land :Sea-Land Service, Inc. announc- ed that it has accepted delivery of its 65,000th container, thereby increasing an inventory already the largest in the shipping indus- try. Delivery of the latest batch of containers climaxes a program in which during the last six months more than 10,000 units have been obtained by the line.

The Sea-Land fleet, consisting of 73 ships, has a total capacity of 21,000 thirty-five and forty-foot boxes.

October 1, 1973 15

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Boeing Selects Litton's

Amecom Div. To Build

ESM System For Navy

Litton Industries' Amecom Divi- sion, College Park, Md., has been selected by the Naval Systems Di- vision of Boeing Aerospace Com- pany to build the electronic sup- port measures (ESM) system for the U.S. Navy's two new Patrol

Hydrofoil Missile (PHM) ships.

John Freitag, Amecom president, said the PHM ESM system will employ receiver/processing tech- niques that enable high probability of signal detection, precision bear- ing measurements, mission pro- grammability, low false alarm rate and low system price.

The Amecom system will be de- rived from an existing receiver sys- tem design being produced for the

Navy's E-2C aircraft. Mr. Freitag said the design of the E-2C system was established on a functionally modular basis so it could be scaled up or down in capability and price, depending on the required appli- cation. This would eliminate R&D cost for new applications and still afford state-of-the-art capability, according to Mr. Freitag.

Amecom is a major supplier to growing Government requirements for electronic warfare, and ships' electronic systems, radio naviga- tion, radio communications and telecommunications systems. marathon

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