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Mcllwain Named VP

Fruehauf Corporation

Maritime Operations

Arnold P. Mcllwain

Arnold P. Mcllwain has been elected a corporate vice president in charge of maritime operations by the board of directors of Frue- hauf Corporation. The announce- ment was made by William E.

Grace, chairman o'f the board and chief executive officer.

In his new position, Mr. Mcll- wain is responsible for Fruehauf's

Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock

Company; Jacksonville Shipyards,

Inc.; Bellinger Shipyards, and the

Paceco Division. He will continue to serve as president of the Mary- land, Jacksonville and Bellinger facilities.

He is a member of the board of directors of Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, and Jackson- ville ^Shipyards, Inc.; a member of the board of governors of the Na- tional Maritime Council, and holds membership in The Propeller Club and The Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers.

Kockums Yard Backlog

Largest In World—

More VLCCs Ordered

Kockums Shipyard, Malmo, Swe- den, the eighth largest shipyard in the world, has announced orders for three more 355,000-dwt oil tankers to bring its total tonnage on order to 6,600,000 deadweight tons. Kockums believes that this is the biggest backlog of or- ders ;in the world.

Two of the newly ordered ships will go to Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen and Company of Oslo, Norway, and one to the Salen Shipping Companies of Sweden.

Kockums' order book now lists five 255,000-dwt and fifteen 355,000-dwt

VLCCs (very large crude carriers), with deliveries scheduled into 1978.

The first in the new 355,000-dwt ship series is set for completion in

November 1974, while the last of the twenty 255,000-dwt supertankers will be delivered in August of the same year.

To shorten contract delivery time and to insure ship quality, all of the 355,000-dwt VLCCs will be built to formula—1,188 feet long, 197 feet wide, 93 feet deep, and 73 feet maxi- mum draft.

Kockums, which receives no Gov- ernment subsidies, has one of the highest productivity rates in the world. In 1972 alone, the Swedish yard delivered and launched six super- tankers.

November 1, 1973 7

GATX Subsidiary Orders 770-Foot Self-Unloader

From Bay Shipbuilding

American Steamship Company, a subsidiary of General American

Transportation Corp. (GATX), has awarded a contract for construction of a new Great Lakes carrier to the

Bay Shipbuilding Corp.

T.M. Thompson, GATX board chairman, announced the award.

The amount of the contract was not disclosed.

The new addition to American

Steamship's fleet will be a 770-foot self-unloader with a 92-foot beam and a 52-foot depth, Mr. Thompson said. He said the vessel will have a deadweight capacity of 42,000 net tons of coal or 35,000 long tons of iron ore pellets.

Bay Shipbuilding, located in

Sturgeon Bay, Wis., is scheduled to deliver the new bulk carrier in

April 1976. Bay Shipbuilding is a subsidiary of Manitowac Company,

Inc.

American Steamship presently owns or operates a fleet of 20 self- unloading bulk carriers and has two other self-unloaders under construc- tion or on order. The company re- cently accepted delivery of the 680- foot carrier Charles E. Wilson, which was also built by Bay Ship- building.

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How come? We make our stainless steel props in

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