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Hongkong United Dockyards

Creating Company To Build

And Repair Mammoth Vessels

Hongkong United Dockyards Limited, and

Overseas Shipyard Company Limited (a mem- ber of the C.Y. Tung Group), announce that they are to form a new company, Hongkong

Consolidated Dockyards Limited, with a view to exploring the possibilities of providing in

Hong Kong new shipbuilding and repairing facilities capable of handling the mammoth vessels currently operating on world trade routes. The directors will be Messrs. J.H.

Bremridge, A.G. Hutchinson, J. Cassels, C.H.

Tung and M.H. Liang.

A survey team from A.P. Appledore Inter- national Limited, who have been commissioned to undertake a detailed feasibility study, is at present in Hong Kong collecting information for its report.

There are presently six drydocks in Hong

Kong with the capacity to handle up to 100,000 dwt. The labor force totals 6,000 men per day, according to Robert M. Catharine, president of Jackson Marine Corporation, New York

City, U.S.A., agent for HUD.

Great Lakes/Rivers Section

Hears Three Technical Papers

At Meeting In St. Paul, Minn.

Shown at the Great Lakes and Great Rivers meeting, left to right: (standing) Robert J. Patrick, vice chairman,

Great Rivers; Trevor White, Section chairman, and John

C. Greenwood, public relations chairman; (seated) Rich- ard Taubler, Greig Sullivan and John Buursema, authors.

The fall meeting of the Great Lakes and

Great Rivers Section of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers was held at the St. Paul Hilton Hotel, St. Paul, Minn., on

October 11, 1973. Attendance at the technical session in the morning was 80 members and guests.

After a brief business meeting, the following technical papers were presented: "Much Ado

About Barges," by Richard Taubler, Richard

Taubler, Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y.; "Advanced

Production Methods in Barge Construction," by John Buursema, vice president, Twin City

Shipyards, St. Paul, and ""Safety Watch In- strumentation Aboard Modern Diesel Ves- sels," by Greig E. Sullivan, National Marine

Service, Inc.

During the afternoon, attendees toured the highly automated shipyard facilities of Twin

Cities Shipyards on Pigs Eye Island in St.

Paul, and witnessed the movement toward launch of a barge under construction. The meeting concluded with a reception and dinner.

The next scheduled meeting of the Great

Lakes and Great Rivers Section is at the Aqua

Marine Motel, Avon Lake, Ohio, on January 17, 1974. The spring meeting will be held in

Chicago on May 22-24, 1974, and additional de- tails concerning this will be forthcoming in due course.

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