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Frank Cuccias Forms

Engineering/Design

Firm In Ocean Springs

F.P. (Frank) Cuccias has an- nounced the formation of a new •engineering design and consulting firm known as Southern Engineer- ing Associates. This firm offers a unique span of services from na- val architecture and marine engi- neering to facility planning, esti- mating, production planning and manufacturing engineering.

Based in Ocean Springs, Miss., the newly organized firm is pres- ently engaged in consulting proj- ects in support of offshore activi- ties, Naval and commercial ship- building and structural assemblies.

Mr. Cuccias is an alumnus of the

U.S. Naval Academy and a gradu- ate engineer of M.I.T. His previous positions include a group vice presidency of Varo Inc. and a di- rector of Litton Industries.

Stella Maritime Elects

Gales Executive VP

Michael A. Gales has been elected executive vice president and direc- tor of Stella Maritime Video, Inc.,

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., it has been announced by Kenneth Mogull, president.

Mr. Gales initially joined the company in July as a consultant.

Stella Maritime Video, Inc. is one of the world's leading creators of on-board videocassette entertain- ment systems, providing first-run full-length color feature motion pic- tures to the maritime community.

Prior to joining the company, he was vice president-marketing of

The Vidtronics Co. Inc., a division of Technicolor Corporation of

America. From 1972 to July 1973, he was president of Medipix Corp.

A 1963 graduate of Oklahoma

University, Mr. Gales served as a first lieutenant in the United States

Army, seeing action in Bien Hoa,

South Vietnam.

Britain Holds Lead In

LNG And LPG Ships

The British shipping industry now has a world lead in the relatively new and fast-expanding gas tanker business.

And by 1976, according to the pres- ent new order position, Britain will have moved further ahead with a fleet of over one million tons (dead- weight) of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas carriers in service.

Figures in the Chamber of Ship- ping and the British Shipping Fed- eration's publication "UK Shipping

News," show that the world gas tank- er fleet at present comprises 374 ships totaling just over 2.3 million dead- weight tons, of which British owners have a 22 percent tonnage stake or almost 500,000 dwt.

There are a further 75 gas ships of nearly three million dwt on order worldwide, of which British ship- ping's share is 14 vessels totaling 578,000 dwt, or some 20 percent. This new building program—and the ships are largely in the 36,000 to 65,000- ton categories—represents for U.K. owners an estimated massive $957 million investment.

Most of these ships are LNGs which are extremely expensive to build, costing something between $59.8 million and $78.9 million, which is roughly equivalent to the cost of the QE2 or twice as much as a supertanker of a quarter of a mil- lion tons. "One of the reasons for the very high cost is that the cargo has to be kept in special insulated tanks, in a liquid form, at a temperature of mi- nus 161 centigrade (-258F.). This is because the carriage of gas in its na- tural form is impracticable: requir- ing 600 times the volume of the liquid form," says UK Shipping News. "Among overseas countries, Japan,

Norway, the United States, Liberia,

Denmark, France and Federal Ger- many are well to the fore in gas tanker operation and they all have new ships on order. Present indica- tions are that in three years' time

Japan will occupy second place to

Britain in the size of its fleet with

Norway third and the United

States fourth. "A revealing indication of the full extent of British shipping's partici- pation in gas tankers is that between 1970 and 1976 its fleet will have in- creased ten times as against a four- fold rise in the world gas tanker fleet," UK Shipping News adds.

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