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Argentine Line Orders

Nine Cargoships

Empresa Lineas Maritimas Ar- gentinas (ELMA), the Argentine state-owned shipping line, has placed an order for nine 'British- designed SD-14 type cargoships in a complicated package deal with the U.K. firm A. and P. Appledore.

The deal embraces the Scottish shipbuilding firm Robb Caledon, which is to build three of the ships for delivery commencing early 1976, and the Argentine yard, As- tilleros y Fabricas Navales del Es- tado (A'FNE), which will construct the remaining six to British design.

Charles Longbottom, chairman of Appledore, said that the nine 15,000-dwt ships had been specially designed to ELMA's specifications to include refrigeration and vege- table oil space.

The Robb-Caledon-built vessels will cost the Argentinians more than $28.4 million, while the state- owned AFNE yard will be using

U.K. steel, costing $7.1 million,

U.K.-built Doxford engines and some U.K. equipment, the supply of which has been arranged and co- ordinated by the shipbuilding de- sign consultants, Appledore.

According to Appledore, the con- tract with ELIMA was won from nine competitors in Germany,

Spain, Greece and Argentina itself. iELMA has recently ordered ten

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Spain to fill out its /bulk carrier fleet at a cost of approximately $110 million.

The line is in the pr ocess of build- ing up its fleet to lessen its heavy foreign-flag charter commitments, according to shipping sources in

London. Some 40 percent of

ELMA's fleet is more than 20 years old, with an even higher per- centage engaged in the nonstate subsidized sector allocated to Ar- gentine-'Brazilian costal trade.

John A. Serrie Jr.

Elected President

Seatrain Shipbuilding

Fluid Control

TP IVI%i Equipment

John A. Serrie Jr.

Seatrain Lines, Inc. has an- nounced the election of John A.

Serrie Jr. as president of the com- pany's Seatrain Shipbuilding Cor- poration subsidiary. Mr. Serrie was vice president-operations at the In- galls Shipbuilding Division of Lit- ton Systems, Inc., in Pascagoula,

Miss.

Born in Jersey City, N.J,, and a graduate of the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology in Boston,

Mass., Mr. Serrie had been with In- galls Shipbuilding since 1968 as vice president-engineering and ma- teriel, 'becoming vice president, op- erations of the company's East

Yard in 1971, and vice president- operations of ,the combined yards in 1972. Prior to joining .Litton

Systems, he had .been with the Elec- tric Boat Division of General Dy- namics in iGroton, Conn., since 1953 and was an engineering officer in the U.S. Navy since 1946. A mem- ber of The Society of -Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers, he is vice chairman of its Gulf Coast

Section.

Koehler-Dayton Names

Electro-Nav, Inc. As

East Coast Sales Rep

Koehler-Dayton, Inc., Division of

Litton Industries, -New .Britain,

Conn., has announced the appoint- ment of Electro-SNav, Inc., New

York City, as their East Coast sales representative.

Electro-Nav will be responsible for the marketing of the firm's commercial marine waste manage- ment systems. Koehler-Dayton, with over 15 years of experience in solving complex sanitation prob- lems, also markets a complete line of waste management systems to railroads, the aircraft industry and the U.S. military. 14 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News