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Brewer-Titchener

Appoints John Malin

John Malin

John Malin has been appointed sales and marketing manager of the Industrial Products Division "of

Brewer-Titchener Corporation,

Cortland, N.Y., according to J.

Ward Abbott, vice president of sales and marketing.

Mr. Malin will be responsible for all sales and marketing activities of the division, which now includes the Boston and Lockport Corpora- tion of East Boston, Mass. He was vice president-sales of Boston and

Lockport Block Co., Inc.

Brewer-Titchener Corporation is a leading manufacturer of high- quality hardware for electrical transmission lines, and has long manufactured and marketed wire rope and chain hardware for the marine and industrial markets.

Mr. Malin has spent his entire career with Boston and Lockport

Block Co., Inc., first joining the firm in 1937. He served in the U.S.

Army Air Force for four years dur- ing World War II, and attended

St. John's University in New York

City.

French Yard To Build 550,000-Ton Tanker

Cie Nationale de Navigation, in which the nationalized oil group Elf-

Erap has a large interest, has ordered a 550,000-ton tanker from Chantiers de l'Atlantique Shipyards.

Elf-Erap said the ship will go into service in 1977 and carry oil to the various refineries run by the French oil group in Western Europe.

The company said the tanker will be one of the largest ever built by the shipyards located in Saint Nazaire,

Loire River Estuary.

Moore-McCormack

Appoints C.J. Netzel

Moore-McCormack Lines, Incor- porated has announced the appoint- ment of Charles J. Netzel as district manager for Detroit. He succeeds

Clinton F. Hodder, who was re- cently transferred to New York as

Eastern representative for States

Steamship Company, San Fran- cisco, Calif.

Moore-McCormack Lines is gen- eral agent for States Line in the

Eastern United States and Canada.

Mr. Netzel was previously dis- trict traffic representative for the

Chicago area. He attended DePaul

University and the College of Ad- vanced Traffic in Chicago, 111., and he is a member of the Delta Nu

Alpha Society.

John Traina Joins

Prudential-Grace Lines

John A. Traina Jr., with Ameri- can President Lines for 20 years, and most recently its Passenger

Division head, has joined Pruden- tial-Grace Lines as vice president-

Passenger Division. The announce- ment was made by Albert B. Wen- zell, vice president and general manager of Prudential-Grace Lines

Pacific Division. 485,000-Ton Tanker

Contract Awarded

To Uddevallavarvet

Uddevallavarvet, the state-owned shipyard on the Swedish west coast, has received a contract for a 485,000- ton tanker from a Scandinavian own- er. This is the largest ship ever ordered in Sweden.

The supertanker will be the first vessel to be built in Uddevallavarvet's new building dock, which will be com- pleted in 1977. The tanker is sched- uled for delivery in 1978, and negoti- ations for another ship of this size and for delivery in the same year was reported.

Uddevallavarvet's present order books comprise 19 vessels aggregat- ing 3.61 million deadweight tons, the largest order backlog in the yard's history. In addition to the 485,000-ton tanker, contracts include tankers of two sizes—233,000 and 127,000 dwt— and one bulk carrier of 118,000 dwt.

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