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IHI Appoints

Ubukata Vice President

Shipyard In Brazil

IHI (Ishikawajima - Harima

Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.), Japan, recently appointed Taiji Ubukata, former managing director of the company, to the post of vice presi- dent of Ishikawajima do Brasil Es- taleiros S.A. (Ishibras) of Brazil, a joint venture between the Brazil- ian 'Government and IHI, succeed- ing the late Yoshinobu Obori.

Mr. Ubukata entered IHI in 1939, after graduating from the law department of the Imperial Univer- sity of Tokyo. He has been a man- aging director of IHI since 1968, having previously held director- ships in Ishibras from 1959 to 1964, and then in IHI.

Ishibras, the largest shipyard in

Latin America, was established as

IHI's first overseas shipyard in

PANCONTINENTAL OVERSEAS CO. 50 Broadway, NEW YORK, N. Y. 10004

Tx. RCA 222197 - ITT 422634 1959. 'Since then, more than 30 large ships, including 25,000-dwt bulk carriers and 12,000-dwt high- speed cargoships, have been built there. At present, construction of a 400,000-ton building dock is in progress.

In addition to its shipbuilding and ship repairing activities, Ishi- bras is also the only manufacturer of Sulzer diesel engines in South

America. Other lines of business include the manufacture of Daihat- su engines, and steel structures such as cranes and gates.

Taiji Ubukata

As the successor of Mr. Ubukata,

Michiyasu Nasaka, former director of IHI, has been elected managing director of the company. Mr. Nasa- ka graduated from the law and liter- ature department of Tohoku Imper- ial University in 1937 and joined the Nagoya Shipbuilding and En- gineering Company in 1941. After the merger of the company with

IHI, he was appointed manager of the general management depart- ment in 1967 and became a director of IHI in 1970.

RPC Division's

New Type Spreader

For Fork-Lift Trucks

A new expandable container- handling spreader that gives a fork- lift truck greater mobility in con- fined areas has been developed by the RPC Division of Midland-Ross

Corporation.

The first unit is in operation at the port of Jacksonville, Fla., ac- cording to J.E. Fathauer, general manager of the division.

The main frame of the 13,000- pound spreader is mounted on a kingpin which permits the operator to slue the unit 3% degrees left or right to pick up a container that is positioned at an angle. The new feature eliminates much of the ma- neuvering that is usually necessary to position a fork-lift truck proper- ly in such a situation, Mr. Fathauer said.

The new spreader can be adapt- ed to existing fork-lift trucks with- out a special mast arrangement. It is capable of handling ANSI/ISO and other containers from 20 to 40 feet in length.

Information on the new spreader can be obtained by writing to J.E.

Fathauer, RPC Division, Midland-

Ross Corporation, 55 Public Square,

Cleveland, Ohio 44113.

Philadelphia Maritime

Group Elects Officers

Thomas P. Kelly, F.H. Muldoon and William Meyle Jr. have been reelected president, vice president and treasurer, respectively of the

Philadelphia Marine Trade Associ- ation, the organization has an- nounced.

Elected to three-year terms as directors of the association were

Gerald C. Bradford and John J.

Gibbons. Alfred Corry continues as executive secretary, and Francis A.

Scanlan counsel for the group.

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